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Hey everyone! My chicken (rooster, 5 & a half yrs old) has been pretty sick the past one month and i've basically been hand feeding him 3 times a day. I've tried treating him for breathing issue with antibiotics, but it hasnt worked. His neck is twisted (wry neck), his head droops, he stumbles...

Hey everyone! My rooster developed a wry neck and had some respiratory issues before. I decided to treat with a 5 day course of tetracycline and also multivitamin drops + half capsule of vitamin e daily. His antibiotics course ended yesterday but there's no improvement. He keeps sleeping and his...

Hello! I need to start a course of tetracycline for my chicken (5 and a half years old rooster) as he has breathing issue which is not going away. I have tetracycline hydrochloride water soluble vet. It says to give 5 mg per 4.5 litres of water at the back of the package to treat poultry...

Hello everyone! My rooster Brownie is 5 years old and today I observed that he was opening his beak a little bit to breathe (not always but from time to time though right now it has stopped) and was making light sounds while doing it. It sounded alarm bells in my head so I'm posting this. I put...

Hi everyone. My Mr. Brownie is turning 4 years old day after tomorrow and the poor guy has struggled with Bumblefoot since before he turned 1. BUT this thread is not asking you for euthanasia advise, so please don't mention it. A few months back, one of his legs developed 3 additional bumbles...

My rescued broiler baby Snowy is blind from one eye. I have been observing for awhile now that her eye seems to be going inside. I've no idea what to do or if it's natural for a blind eye to do this. Any suggestions or people who have gone through the same situation, please do share.

Hey everyone. So I have a little birdie at my home who for very defensive today when my rooster came near his cage. He pecked my Brownie's left eye and now it is closed. I dipped some cotton in room temperature water (it was on the colder side) and pressed it over his eye. The eye initially...

Hey everyone. So, I have a hen called Snowy who was rescued froma chicken shop. She has a number of issues (blind in one eye, one foot has turned outwards and the joint is limp-ish and very watery poop with undigested seeds) that I've been trying to help her out with. Recently, she started...

Hi everyone! So, last year I had done Brownie's bumblefoot procedure for the first time. During the process no corn kernal had come out. I did the process again 2 days ago after lots and lots of warm water soaks for many days and removed his scab. A bit of infection like thing came out but...

Hi everyone! So, I had planned to remove Brownie's (my rooster) bumblefoot from both feet yesterday, but it was too hard even after half an hour of soaking in warm water! I tried to pluck it away using a pair of tweezers (I've done this before as well) but the bumblefoot scab was very firm...

Good evening! I have recently been fostering 2 baby egrets who were found on the road. I was planning on releasing them in the wild once they grew up. But now they both seemed to have developed splay legs issue. They eat eggs and fish and are drinking water just fine. I have started to give...

Hello everyone! My name is Tanya and I have a 1 year + rooster called Brownie. Last week while I was giving him a bath, I felt a lump on his throat right below him wattles. After repeated checking I confirmed that it was not in fact his crop. Since, I check his crop regularly I am familiar with...

Hey everyone! So, today I was giving Tooki (my hen) a bath and noticed a blueish growth on the skin near her left wing. Could anyone tell me what this is? She generally flaps her wings very firmly and strongly. Please do let me know if you have any idea about this. I am attaching a picture.

Hello everyone! I have a pullet named Tooki who just turned 4 months old. I am told that she will start laying by the 5th or 6th month. Tooki has been very sick for more than 2 months. I have started giving her water through dropper to keep her properly hydrated in the past week as she flaps...

I have recently stopped giving my two chicks starter feed and have been trying to make a good seed mixture at home. Till now have incorporated 3 things in their homemade mix: Pearl Millet, Corn and Sunflower Seeds. I go with the ratio of 3:2:1 respectively and their poop seems to be fine and...

Please please help me out! I have been treating my 2 chicks for coccidiosis and finished their treatment yesterday. The older one has been very sick for 2 weeks now and she also has growth problems. Her legs are also very weak and she just moves to eat and drink. I have given her vitamins...

Hello everyone! So, I have 2 girls Tooki (7 weeks old) and Brownie (5 weeks old). After getting Tooki's poop tested a few days back and finding out that she had worm eggs in her stool, I dewormed both her and her sister yesterday and today with Albendazole. I had to repeat again today at the...

We found a baby chick around 6 weeks back lying on the road and brought her back home. She (her name is Tooki) might be of the broiler breed. Not sure. But now for the past 5 days she has suddenly gotten very sick and stopped moving around. We had purchased a baby chick (Brownie) so that Tooki...