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    Gasping appearance, very ill chicken

    I have a young Marans that started limping pretty severely one day, so we put her into "quarantine", a very large box and/or kennel in the house. The next day, she added a very slow gasping. By gasping, I mean she stretches her neck out and slowly opens her mouth...it appears that she is...
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    Help! Severe injury!

    I forgot to mention, I will continue on with the antibiotic, and put her in a dog crate in the run. After she heals more, I will add the BluKote. thank you to everybody for so much help. Based on where we found her, my dad seems to think it was a raccoon, we have a few HUGE ones that hang around...
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    Help! Severe injury!

    Oh I never thought about that! I will put her out in the crate today. Thanks!
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    Help! Severe injury!

    I just reviewed my original post and wanted to clarify the "before" pic. That is not her, it is a stock pic. That is just an example of what she is supposed to look like, I didn't have a close up pick showing her crest! :)
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    Help! Severe injury!

    Ok, I am updating Squirtle's condition. She stayed in the house getting treated for almost a week, the antibiotic ointment and saline rinses really helped, I guess. I haven't cleaned the wound as well as I had hoped, but it was just too painful for her. Mostly just rinsed and then put ointment...
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    Help! Severe injury!

    I wondered if her feathers will grow back. I hope so. If I can get her healed and healthy again, do you think she should be kept separate from the others? I don't know if she should EVER go back with the others.
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    Help! Severe injury!

    Thank you. She is in the house confined so she can rest. We just found her so don't know if she will eat yet, will definitely get some liquid nutrition-I didn't think about that. Thanks again!
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    Help! Severe injury!

    This is my smallest Crested Cream Legbar. She is much smaller than the others, almost like a "runt". I have seen the legbar rooster pecking at her, he doesn't like her. I am not really sure what happened here, if it was him, or a predator, but she was in a secure run, and we found her with her...
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    new layers laying little, tiny eggs

    We have some pullets that were marked wrong, so I don't know what they are. They were marked Columbian Rock Cross, but were mislabeled. I suspect they are either Isa Browns or maybe some kind of red sex link. They are super friendly, very healthy, almost 6 months old. They started laying over...
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    Older hens making chicks sleep on floor

    And none are bantams; they are golden comets, austrolorps, and red sex links.
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    Older hens making chicks sleep on floor

    Two roosting poles, one above the other, about 8 feet long each. We only have 16 total, 8 older and 8 younger. Space is not a problem, plenty of room. In fact, all of the older hens sleep on the roost together, except one sleeps at the other end, effectively blocking the younger ones from the...
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    Older hens making chicks sleep on floor

    We recently added some new chicks to the coop, after about a month of "see don't touch". There is still some bullying going on, but for the most part, pecking order has been established, and everybody is getting along ok. The problem is a bedtime. We often peek into the coop windows at bedtime...
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    dead chickens

    No signs of anything. Coop is secure, nothing dug up or moved, everything is completely as it was, except they are all dead. We had a little rain here in there, thought maybe something blew threw weather wise, but doesn't explain the one bird and feeder part outside of the coop. The birds are...
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    dead chickens

    My neighbor came home to his littles all dead. This coop had a tarp staked on all four sides, three were still staked into the ground but the coop was uncovered. The feeder was in two pieces, one piece outside of the coop with food still in it. One chicken was outside of the coop. Hate to think...
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    Odd "egg" laid-what is it?

    Ok, I hesitate to call this an egg. I saw this in the coop, not in the nesting boxes, and I usually get the same number of eggs daily, and I am one short today, so this must be her "egg". I have one hen who often has problems, lots of soft shells or eggs with no shell at all. She has never laid...
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