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Hi, one of my hens has a broken toenail. It's still attached but looks like it could possibly come off, especially if she keeps pecking at it. I see some red where it looks like it bled before but stopped, and it's cut completely around, but doesn't seem too loose. At least half of her toenail...

I'm trying to figure out if a couple of my hens have a fungal infection, or CRD. Seems like it all started with a couple different hens having watery/foamy eyes, one hen who cleared up in one day and another around a few days to a week. I did hear gurgling from another hen, but that didn't last...

I am very worried that my flock has some type of respiratory infection. I've been reading up on posts here and the outcome looks grim, about them being carriers for life once they have it. I don't know for sure what they have, but all the symptoms add up - a couple with bubbles in their eyes or...

Hi, I wormed my flock with Wazine 17 two weeks ago, and now I'm going to re-worm them. I know Wazine 17 only gets roundworms, but I'm pretty sure that's what I saw in someone's poo before I started treatment. Can I just re-worm with Wazine 17? Will that be sufficient to control the entire...

Hi, I wormed my chickens last year with Wazine 17, and now they have worms again. I adopted a stray hen not too long ago, and I suspect she brought more worms to the others, since I found her ranging about in the wild. I recently treated my chickens with a Seven dust for mites. The mites are...

Hi, I have a hen that is crop bound and/or has a sour crop. Can't find a decent vet and it's way too expensive to take her for surgery. Do the crop bound capsules work at all? Has anyone tried them with success? Thanks

I've got a small Lakenvelder hen (Telitha) that I feel most certain has crop impaction. She started looking droopy in her comb and wattles, and her feathers started looking a little rough. I didn't think much of it at first, because I figured she was getting ready to moult. She's only a little...

I've had some hens in the past that had internal laying/egg binding problems - sadly none of them made it. More recently, however, one of my mutt hens started to show the same old symptoms, so I knew she was a goner. This is going to sound utterly crazy, but thinking it couldn't hurt, I tried...

My 9 mo. old Cuckoo Maran hen seems to have too large of pads on the bottom of her both her feet, which makes it rough for her to stay balanced on the roost at night. She also walks tenderly on her feet, like she is trying to place them a certain way. I don't see any scab-like things on the...

Hi, I'm thinking of getting a new rooster for my flock of hens. I want one with a nice temperment, and I saw an ad in the local paper for Cuckoo Marans and Delawares. I have a Delaware and three Cuckoo Marans already. Which rooster is better temperment wise - a Delaware or Cuckoo Maran? Thanks -...

My Sussex pullet has been limping for a week now. I think she may have fallen/landed off the roost wrong or something last Tuesday, because that's when she started. She has no bumblefoot and is completely normal acting except for the limping. Could a sprain last this long? Will it just take some...

Hi again. I hate to keep posting this same topic every couple months or so, but the fact is I keep losing a hen every couple months! It's so aggravating. They have all died from some kind of egg-related issue. I had two of them taken to the vet and spent a lot of time and money on all of them to...

My 5 week old Blue Andalusion chick has had watery droppings since I first got her at three days old. She acts completely normal and is very active with the others. Is this anything to be concerned about? Could it possibly be normal? Maybe I only see her when she's pooping the watery stuff. All...

Are there supposed to be rocks in the abdomen? My hen Frances has been pooping smelly liquid-like dark brown stuff with occasionally undigested feed in it. I haven't seen her poop normal and firm since before I treated her with antibiotics. I took her to the vet, thinking she had crop impaction...

Hi again. I think my hen Frances has something wrong with her crop. I'm pretty sure it's crop impaction - because I saw that she pooped out some grass wads and I think little pieces of bedding after I gave her some vegetable oil. Despite my giving her oil just about every day, her crop is...

My hen Rosin was sick for a while and I had her separated from the others for a couple weeks, which caused problems. The others started attacking her when I put her back into the coop with them. They would get her cornered and just be merciless. So I tried placing her into a see-through cage for...

Does anyone know if it is okay to eat eggs from my chickens that have been wormed with Panacur? I thought I saw somewhere that it is okay, but I want to be sure. Also, is it normal for them to have watery droppings? I wormed them for three days starting on the 30th, and I noticed today that a...

My hen Rosin was sick for a while, and I had her away from the others for over two weeks while I gave her antibiotics and wormed everyone. Now she is doing better, but the others (6 others) are trying to jump on her and corner her. They are merciless. So I only let her out with them when I am...

I was told by a vet that I needed an all around wormer that takes care of everything. He said to look for something with the ingredient Fenbenvazooe. Does anyone know where I can order or find such a wormer? I only have one for roundworms. Thanks!

Last year I had a hen that was eggbound and she died before I figured out what was wrong. I was giving my flock too much scratch feed and not enough calcium-rich feed. Now that I've been feeding them better, most of my chickens are back to laying eggs as usual and they all seem very healthy...