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I picked up one of my girls today because I noticed she was a bit slower than usual and I thought it might be her feet (which get muck trapped in the flaps of skin between her toes). She started panting and a clicking sound was coming from her body (not her mouth). She did say one point shake...

I've read a lot about thin shelled eggs and have had quite a few of them in the past. In all but one case, it was a lack of enough calcium which I simply supplemented their feed. They did have oyster shell but some just wouldn't eat it. Only one hen had a problem that never resolved however she...

I noticed this yesterday. Not seen it before. She's behaving completely normally but has this whitish swelling over her right eye. It looks like a blister. Nothing else on her so don't know if it's an injury or not. Certainly no other swellings or lumps anywhere else. Do you know what it is...

Nella's eye has a bit of a change. She's old - 7+ and has some issues where she can not walk for a couple of days very well. I believe she was vaccinated against Marek's so I'm doubting it's that. Her other eye is perfect. This one does react to light and the pupil gets small if I shine a...

One of our new rescue hens was acting strangely on Wednesday. I noticed her crop was full of liquid so assumed the start of sour crop and brought her in and put her in a cage. Whilst there, she did some fairly unpleasant poops, one of which had a small tube hanging out. This was a soft shell...

2 weeks ago, we rescued 9 battery hens. They were in poor shape - mid molt and mostly bare skin. As usual their combs were very light pink and large, which I have been told is because they are kept in very hot enclosures. Our weather has changed over the last week and we have had 2 days where...

Nella is over 6 years old and a little Ameraucana. She couldn't stand up yesterday at all, so I guessed it might be a stuck egg pressing on the sciatic nerve (had that before). Gave her a warm bath in Epsom Salts and a half a TUMS. Put her to bed and thought that might be the last I saw of...

Hi My Red Sexlink rescue hen, Scarlett died suddenly on Good Friday. There was no warning. Context: she was 5 years old and an amazing layer - laid for 2 years solid before moulting the last time in November. She layed her last egg on the 5th April and stopped laying. I tried to see if she...

Nella is six and a half but is still laying nearly every day, however she's laying shell-less eggs. She got doughy crop and I successfully treated her (link here). She's fine but since having the crop issue, she's not layed a shelled egg. Annoyingly, it is causing another issue. She lays it...

I have dealt with sour and impacted crops but never doughy crop. Nella, our little Ameraucana, has recently developed a doughy crop. I noticed this yesterday. She had been her normal active self two days before but yesterday spent a lot of time just standing around for most of the day...

Scarlett is a sexlink hen we rescued just over 3 years ago. She has been an amazing layer and didn't moult for nearly 2 years. In October, she started to moult and grew a complete set of new feathers by early December. She was fairly low for a while but has now picked up and is active and...

Scarlett is a rescue chicken and when she came to us 2.5 years ago, she was basically bald. Eventually she grew lovely feathers and looked like a normal Sexlink chicken. However she lays every day almost without fail and doesn't take any time out. He featehers have become more scruffy and now...

Hello all Peggy is a nearly 6 year old Maran, who lays green eggs and until recently was laying periodically. She has intermittent soft shelled eggs - or at least paper-thin shelled that they are easily cracked unless handled with extreme care. Last weekend, I found a lash egg in the nesting...

Peggy is our 4 year old Marans. She has had an episode like this some years ago where she was lying across the floor of the sleeping area unable to move, quite unresponsive. That time I took her indoors and eventually with help, she got back on her feet and later laid an egg. She is not a...

I have another post on here, so forgive me posting twice but my need is pretty urgent and it might get missed. We have an ill chicken. Salpingitis with a large mass in her abdomen. She is on antibiotics and pain relief. She has not eaten for 3 days now but is drinking all the time. The...

Hi We have a Red Sexlink rescue hen (Rosie) who has been with us 2.4 years. She stopped laying about 8 months ago and moulted, then after, never laid again. We just thought she'd reached the end of her laying life. 3 days ago, I noticed her tail was not upright (not down though) and she was...

Hi I have treated bumblefoot a number of times but never had one on the webbing of the foot before. Usually I have seen the black dot and then soaked it, gently peeled it back and then applied antibiotic cream on a daily basis until it goes. Unfortunately Rosie has a (large) pea sized lump in...

Hello all Bramble, our little Wyandotte, who is about 3 1/2 years old. She doesn't lay any more. We only had about 4 eggs this whole year! She is seemingly quite happy and scratches around but also takes it easy, standing guard in a weird kind of way. Her poop is normal, solid and pellet...

Hi Peggy, a 3 year old Marans hen, in good health and as normal as could be, has started laying lots of shell-less eggs. This has been going on for about 4 to 6 weeks. Sometimes we will get a normal egg (green shell) and then we don't see an egg for days . This is because they are either...

Hi all We lost Betty back in February after her long battle for many months. All then seemed calm. Then yesterday, I noticed one of our rescue hens, Ruby, was just standing around not bathing or scratching. This is odd. She is a very friendly and inquisitive chicken. She is first out and...