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I am down to a single chicken. ☹️ She is from a Marek's positive coop, but she is the healthiest chicken I've had. She is 7 years old, so I am looking for a similarly aged hen who was vaccinated for Marek's to keep her company. I do not want to keep any more chickens after this because of the...

I got the report back from the vet's necropsy. The cause of death was suppurative pyelitis. Searching for this term on Backyard Chickens yielded absolutely nothing. According to Wikipedia, it is apparently a bacterial kidney infection leading sepsis. So antibiotics probably could have saved...

I'm waiting to hear whether any diagnostic tests turn anything up. Gross anatomy didn't show anything but that her heart was smaller than average. It wasn't coccidiosis or vitamin deficiency, which were the two things I tried treating.

It seems to have been too late. She declined really fast over night and early yesterday, so we put her to sleep. I'm going to take her in to the vet for a necropsy so I can find out how to keep any of the other girls from getting sick with whatever it is.

Thank you! I'll try that!!!

She can't stand up but her legs are actually pretty strong (she kicked me when I picked her up). She is now panting. She raises her neck forward each time she breathes and then lets it relax back down. Her right eye is closed much of the time, but the other seems alert. I am continuing to...

I have a hen who is less than a year old but mature (was laying) who has been lethargic and weak. At first she was sitting down a lot and had her head tilting to the side a bit. I gave her vitamin E oil and she didn't get any worse. She has been sleeping on the floor of the hen house though...

Thanks. I will definitely jump on the problem faster if it ever happens to one of my girls again! It seemed like the Corid was working, so then it took me a while to redirect my research and action into a different direction.

I just went out and checked on her, and she has really gone downhill since this morning. She looks really bad. I think it is too late to do anything for her but make her comfortable. My daughter is in the coop saying bye to her and the other hen is in there with her too. :'(

OK, so it sounds like maybe a trip to the vet is in order. Thanks for the info!

This is what she looks like at the moment. She is just sitting in the corner of the house. She has her neck pulled in so she can't even see. This is what her poop looks like - at least I think it's hers. I couldn't swear it's not the other girl's.

The corid seemed to work at first, but she is still lethargic and not looking great. I am not sure what is wrong with her! She still has yellowish poop, but she isn't panting anymore. She doesn't run out of the house when I open its door anymore though, and some days I'm not sure she has come...

I haven't seen any poops on a solid surface, only on the bedding where they have I soaked in and left a yellow area. After doing more searches through the posts here, I thought perhaps coccidiosis (one of the ones that doesn't lead to bloody poops) so I went to the Feed store right before it...

My girl is a little over a year old. She hasn't been laying lately (about 2 weeks), but I just felt inside and there is no egg that I can detect. She looked a bit lethargic yesterday morning, but then she perked up a bit and seemed ok later in the day. Now she is lying in the house under the...

I didn't see anything on that page that looked like it was for chickens. Do you know of something specific you could direct me to? My husband or I might be able to make something if we have an idea in mind of what might work. I'm having a hard time picturing what the design would look like...

I came looking for wheel chairs to see what might be possible for a chicken. I also intentionally adopted a disabled chicken at about 6 weeks old. I thought I would be able to do more to correct her feet and legs, but the vet and someone on here who has a chicken podiatry page said it is too...

Good for you for not giving up on him! Can you share some more news and pics? How is he doing now?

Thank you. It was actually you who I meant when I said ChickenObsessed. I see that is your status, not your name. Snape is currently happy when she is with her "sisters" and likes to snuggle with them. She and the Welsummer battle it out to see who can climb under the others. They seem to...

That would be really neat! I am never quite sure what you are supposed to do with art yarn though - other than admire it! I imagine it would be hard to knit or crochet anything with feathers in it. Maybe you could weave it? That's the one fiber art I have avoided so far, so I can't say for sure.

Socks aren't really any harder than anything else to master. If you pick a simple pattern, you should be able to just follow along. If there is anything you don't understand or don't know how to do, You Tube is your friend. You can learn how to do just about anything on youtube. Ravelry.com...