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  1. Kalthia

    Have you had an experience with your chickens that made you sick? ...

    Gtaus, Thank you for your post. I was a nurse for 20 years - so I know what you mean about smells. It has been 15 years since I was a nurse. And we have come late to the rural life. I wanted chickens even when I lived in the city - knowing it gave us some food security and autonomy that we...
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    Have you had an experience with your chickens that made you sick? ...

    Thanks! I am way past being pregnant... so that is a big ol' NO! LOL I will consider... I cooked older eggs (way before she had this issue) last night, a dozen for my husband. When I opened it today - the smell was not necessarily 'off' but I kept sniffing because I could not decide. My dogs...
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    Have you had an experience with your chickens that made you sick? ...

    I am leaning this way - but it seems so wasteful to toss 3-4 dozen eggs...
  4. Kalthia

    Have you had an experience with your chickens that made you sick? ...

    Thanks, I will go get some mint tea right now. Maybe that will help...
  5. Kalthia

    Have you had an experience with your chickens that made you sick? ...

    I was not sure where to put this post - and so this seemed the best place. Not sure of even the response I expect, but a conversation about it would help. A week or so ago, I found one of my girls was sick, very sick. She somehow got injured, and was infested with maggots. I had to put her...
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    Is that the inside of my chicken? - Should I put her down?

    Thank you - she was put to peace. I'm still crying about it, but it was the best thing for her.
  7. Kalthia

    Is that the inside of my chicken? - Should I put her down?

    Thank you - I am desperately trying to find a vet open today - it isn't going well.
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    Is that the inside of my chicken? - Should I put her down?

    My Blue Laced Red Wyandotte - was fine 2 days ago. She is just under a year old. Today - I wanted to check her because I see she is suddenly losing a lot of feathers. I turned her over after a bath and it looks like she is split up the middle. She has white worms - which I assume are maggots...
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    Prednisolone & my hurt chicken

    This has been going on for weeks, she isn't getting better. And as soon as she started laying again, it started again. I understand some hens can have pain related to laying, and she lays the biggest eggs I have had. Her right leg is weak - and she struggles to walk. It seems painful, for...
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    Prednisolone & my hurt chicken

    So - it's been weeks now and my hen was finally diagnosed with sciatica - and was placed on prednisolone for a few weeks. She finally came off - and is still not walking right, but she is getting along.. okay. I am on the fence about it still - but right now she is okay and with the flock. She...
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    2 Weeks- still not walking - is there any hope?

    She did not mention Mareks - and Zoe is bright with red combs and eating everything she is offered. She does not seem to have the signs and symptoms of it. I had put them on a whole seed feed and I think they were nitpicking through and getting the tasty stuff (if nutrition is even the cause)...
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    2 Weeks- still not walking - is there any hope?

    No, the doctor examined her and said it was not necessary. She didn't find any reason to believe it was injured.
  13. Kalthia

    2 Weeks- still not walking - is there any hope?

    For the last two weeks we have had this hen who won't walk more than a few tentative steps. She mainly sits down. Her foot does not place as a normal foot would, and she slips and slides with it. We were keeping her inside for a few days while we tried to figure out if she was egg bound. We...
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    Malnourished...It is the feed....?

    how do you treat this - if she did get some mold?
  15. Kalthia

    Malnourished...It is the feed....?

    We are keeping her separate - so she has her own food and water. She is in a part of the run that that other chickens are right next to. I also put her into the house each night so she is sleeping with them. This morning she left the coop on her own - I didn't get to observe it, so I don't know...
  16. Kalthia

    Malnourished...It is the feed....?

    This feed is fresh - and the guaranteed analysis has 17% protein, a min of 3.5% calcium, along with lots of other things.. it smells great (to me) kinda like pizza, very rich smelling. This has been a much bigger learning curve than I anticipated.. but hopefully things will get better now.
  17. Kalthia

    Malnourished...It is the feed....?

    It's 5am on Sunday and I can't sleep because I have been worried about my first sick hen all week. She started limping and stopped being able to walk. (You can find several posts from me earlier on this across forums trying to puzzle this out). We took her to the vet last week, and the vet said...
  18. Kalthia

    Advice please!

    I'm sorry 😢
  19. Kalthia

    Advice please!

    This sounds a lot like what I am facing today as well.. I will be watching your post too!
  20. Kalthia

    How long does it take hen to recover?

    Vet said the crop was small, but normal. She just started laying in the last 30 days... I have five so not sure exactly when. She came as a chick vaccinated. the vet did not give vitamin e. She mentioned which b's but I can't remember. Her eggs are the largest (of the five) , but the vet felt...
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