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Thanks! 30+ years with birds, 15 years with chickens. I still learn something new, seems like every day!

Thanks, I know!

Thank you! She's objecting, but I started syringing honey water down her crop. There's a 400iu vitamin dissolved in it, about 1/4 cup of water. Tomorrow I'll switch to giving her the gel. And get that B complex!

Initially gave her electrolytes.. I can continue that. Enteric coated 81mg aspirin for pain. I have Vitamin E 400iu softgels: best way to administer? No rooster booster available locally. Closest thing on hand is B12. I can get human grade otc b complex tomorrow. She's got raisins and a...

Her legs are stiff but she holds herself at an angle. Makes me think something in her pelvis might be displaced. She leans really hard. And it's why I'm thinking a sling might help her heal. Great. Trying to convince the local animal hospital to xray a chicken? Sigh.

Given a few minutes, I can try! I move slowly- very bad back.

What else should I be doing? Help for Indie(Near Death Experience) the 2 year old hen I have NO VET available here, I'm on my own. What else should I be trying? Friday noon, a fox grabbed one of my hens. It dropped her and ran, but not before ripping out belly feathers. That appears to be the...

Even cinnamon queens can be great snuggle chickens. :love

Yes, they do!

Doesn't take weeks, try a few days if the logs are already decomposing!

Waste was why I switched to pellets over crumble. It's half dust.

Organic is great if you can afford it. But what are our foraging/free ranging/pasturing hens eating? What portion of that food is organic, what has been exposed to chemicals? Rather than organic, I focus on 'natural' when it comes to labels. Chicken feed is technically not natural: i feed...

I just went through Airsaculitis with a 7 month old pullet. Here she is today. I wish I had tried harder to get pics. It was her upper left air sac. It felt hard to me, with some puffiness around the edges of the bump. Initially, I thought she was egg bound. Then I though she had an abscess or...

This is subcutaneous, I don't think it could be an air sac. I'll double check my chicken anatomy charts, just to be sure though. Good thinking!

I wondered as well, although I can't find any obvious signs of drainage. Her poop sure stinks tonight though! But if it actually is draining, that's good news!

X3, two potential Cockrell, 1 potential pullet. I'd wait a couple more weeks and look for spur bumps as well.

Update: my little red hen survived today's attempt at euthanasia. That's not all. It got wild this afternoon, in a good way, I think. 30 minutes after I administered the cocktail I'd used before, she was up, moving around and eating, drinking on her own. This continued ALL AFTERNOON. This...

I ground up 1 norco 7.5 and 1 tizanadine, a stronger muscle relaxant than flexaril. Put it in water and syringe it into her. It's how I euthanized a hen a few years ago, only with flexaril. It's been over half an hour: she's walking around and eating. I keep expecting her to lay down, go to...

NOTHING came out. At all. I used a 3ml needle, twice. The soft swollen part around the lump is completely gone today. But the lump itself is larger, descending down her breast. Is this a thick, waxy infection that needs removed or an extremely fast growing, hard tumor? Do I euthanize or try...

Exactly why I don't have one: with my luck, I'd end up in the Mississippi River!