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My leg horn hen is about to be 2 years old and shes my best egg layer, shes still laying even as the seasons get colder. However, she eats so much food... enough for 2-3 hens. She also drinks a lot of water and spills it all over her feathrrs over her neck and feathers (shes messy). Recently I...

I just noticed one of my hens with a toe bent back a lot. No bumbleboot and no marks of injury/infection. The toe almost feels detached? I don't know how long it's been like this. It doesn't seem to hurt her and she doesn't limp.

I have a hen who is very weak and can't stand up . . . she couldn't stand before she became weak. She drinks a lot of water and recently doesn't eat much. I brought her to the vet a week ago and he gave me Prednisone steroids to see if it'll help her regain strength in her legs. However, I...

Two days ago I noticed a large ping pong ball size hard lump on my hens thigh. She cab still fly, stand, and walk fine. It seemed bad and I cut it open thinking it was a cyst and there was white hard stuff inside but it was stuck to her skin and too difficult to remove without making her bleed...

About 5 days ago one of my hens started having foot issues and I found an article here that looked exactly like what she was having. Her foot curled and she sometimes has trouble walking from stepping on her toes or curling up her foot. The only medicine I have is polyvisol w/out iron but it...

I have a hen who I noticed a few weeks ago had a wing that was hanging below her foot and when I felt it, there was no muscle like on her other wing. It felt very tense and didn't want to be moved to spread her wing out. I tried wrapping it to hold it in place, but idk if I did it wrong because...

I have a hen who was limping pretty bad yesterday and I took her inside and wrapped her leg with vet wrap thinking it was a possible sprain. I checked for bumblefoot and she doesn't have it. Her leg had some markings which is where I thought her injury could be located. Today I saw her foot was...

When I first started raising chickens I had them on Tractor Supply's brand of layer feed (Dumor). A year ago I switched them to a feed that is organic and non-GMO and not layer. This is what it looks like... Here's the nutrition label... I really like the feed, but my chickens go through it...

I live up north where the winters get pretty brutal and the snow lasts until March or April. Until now the snow has been on and off so the hens are still able to go outside some days (they dont like coming outside in the snow). In November I completely cleaned out the coop and tarped the walls...

I have a one year old hen who has shown symptoms of a respiratory infection for a week now and a 3 days ago I started her on antibiotic injections (liquamycin). Yesterday she spent the night inside and i put vetrx in a vaporizer for her. I have no clue whats wrong with her because she has a lot...

I have a hen who has had an infected eye for a while now and she’s gone through treatments of antibiotics (eye got slightly better) but that didn’t fix it. I also got ciproloxin eye drops which also did nothing. Her eye also has some ooze coming out but there’s just pink skin over her eye and...

I have a hen who yesterday I noticed was being very much not like herself. She is a major explorer and loves drinking water and she’s always full on food. She is very lethargic and wouldn’t leave the roosting bar today. She wouldn’t eat or drink. I have her an epsom salt warm bath in case she...

i have a hen with bumblefoot in both feet. I took the little nubs out and cleaned it but I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to get more out or how because it didn’t look yellow any further. One foot healed and is back go normal but the other foot got worse. The nub is pretty small but the bumps...

i have a chick who is about 10 weeks old and a few weeks ago she had a red eye so I’ve been putting terramycin in her eye twice a day but things have only gotten worse. I stopped the eye cream and started giving her two injections a day of liquamycin. The swelling went down dramatically and same...

I have this chick who is so sweet but has a really bad limp. Nothing seems to be broken or bruised or the leg/thigh or joints. There's also a lot of yellow stuff clumping around the nose. Idk what's wrong with them. The leg injury only seems to be in one leg.

I have two 5 week old chicks that have been closing their eyes and seem to be always sleepy. They also open and close their beaks every 10 seconds or so and fluff up their feathers. I thought they were cold so I turned the heat lamp up a bit more cus it was on a low temerature for awhile. I have...

I few days ago I noticed one of my hens with a really bad limp. She's about 5 months old and still active. I gave her a tiny amount of asprin but the limp didn't go away. She can still run but it looks sad to see. She curls her foot with the injured leg when she walks and puts all her weight on...

I have an 11 week old leghorn hen who from a chick always looked up at me sideways but just a week ago or so I realized that it was wry neck that she had and it's just been getting worse. She's still eating and drinking and I've been squeezing a vitamin e pill on her beak daily and also mix...

My silver wyandotte has had a lot of feather loss and issues on her back or saddle area. It's been like this for over a year and I don't know what it is. She's been bathed and dusted with DE several times but nothing has changed. It hurts her a lot when the area is touched and usually has scabs...

For awhile one of my hens has been limping when she walks. It's clear that she has bumblefoot in one foot and I got the supplies together to get hopefully get rid of the infection.This was my first chicken with bumblefoot so I'm new to this. I started by cleaning her foot in a warm epsom salt...