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My 5 year old brahma has been having some issues. She will have spurts when her droppings are not solid at all and it causes her to have dirty feathers. I have been told many things it could be: worms, sour crop, intestinal infection. I've tried a Fenbendazole for dewormer and nothing has...

I have been battling mites for some time now. I have tried DE, ivermectin, permethrin, and a shampoo called cypermethrin. I finally caved in to buy elector psp but it hasn't arrived yet. I am finding mites everywhere not only on my chickens but a few crawling on my phone this past week. I have...

Hello All, My white leg horn has been limping for about a month or so but it seems to be worse when it snows or cold weather. I have checked her feet for bumblefoot and there are no sores or signs of any wounds. She still walks and runs when she needs to but isn't fast. I have also been trying...

I have been dealing with mites for months. I have tried DE and Permethrin powder and spray. I cleaned out the entire coop with the spray and dusted the girls several times. I am not sure what to do next. Someone had suggested to use Ivermectin but I have no idea how to use it. I have also been...

In the past I have used Fenbendazole. After reading a few threads I found that many people say not to use during a molt. I had just given all my girls their first dose (pea sized paste directly in beak). Should I dose again in 10 days or should I wait until the molting is over? I had also read...

The past two night my faverolles have had an empty crop, not just a little empty but to the point of not able to find it. All my other girls have nice full crops. She seems to be one of the lowest on the pecking order. I made her some hard boiled eggs which she ate but not to fill her while...

I have read many posts about Medistatin being the best way to treat vent gleet. My girls have a white discharge from their vent and I have tried alternatives to medicine and now need the strong help. The articles have said to put about 0.5 teaspoon in coconut oil and let it harden then...

Not sure what this is.. today my brahma has had her tail feathers pointed down and panting in the chicken coop. Each time she would pant her vent would pulsate. She has a good amount of feces that is stuck on her feathers but this seems to be a monthly thing where it builds up and we do an Epson...

I have 5 hens that I just adore, they are my babies! I think all of them have vent gleet. They all have feces sticking to their butt feathers with some white discharge at the base of the vent. I also have a big brahma that has scaly leg mites, it is pretty severe. I wonder if I should be doing a...

This is my brahma's feet, they have looked like this since I got her 2 years ago. She is approximately 4 years old. I hadn't ever thought anything about her feet until I was reading about mites and leg lice. I haven't ever seen anything crawling on or around any of my chickens. Could this be...

I am the second owner to all my hens. They are approximately between 3-4 years old. I have have noticed on my white hens the most that poop has been getting stuck on their back feathers and I have to soak and wash them off. Even after washing off the droppings my hen didn't seem clean. I have...

My 3 year old brahma always seems to have poo stuck to her down feathers every time she poops. Also her vent keeps contacting. I wondered if she an egg stuck but I didn't feel anything but poo. She had a good poo after I washed her feathers but this isn't the first time I've had to do this. It's...

I have two faverolles. I found Norma with a bloody foot from a broken feather. Cleaned her up with an antimicrobial spray and Blu Kote. When I went to close the coop I found HeyHey with the same broken feathers on her foot. Her bleeding was a lot worse and took longer to stop. It finally stopped...

I have 5 hens. They have all been molting the past 4 to 6 weeks. I haven't seen one egg since. I had one bird pass away last week without any signs of it coming, no injury either. When they started molting I started them on Purina Chick Starter for protein. They don't seem as interested in the...

All chickens came out of the coop this morning. They are free range in my yard. She was acting fine the previous day. When I got home after being gone 8 hours I found my Rhode Island Red in the garden in the sitting position with her head turn to her wing. She seemed to have been dead for hours...

My alpha of my girls is suddenly always standing alone. All are going through a molt. I think she started doing it since the molt. She will show awareness when I walk up to her and then join the rest of the group. But I have been seeing her more alone lately and has puffed up her feathers, to...

Last week I had a chicken pass away due to impacted crop that burst. I'm not sure if I a paranoid now but I was looking at my Orpington and she is looking large in the chest. I felt her crop which is full and it doesn't have much give when I push on it. I felt the other chickens and theirs are...

I have a California White chicken, her feathers are looking quite mangy and brittle. She takes dirt baths often so they are also dirty but not pretty like they use to be.

I found my chicken 3 days ago with her crop wide open. Anything she ate or drank would come tumbling out her neck. She is acting completely normal like running, eating, and drinking. After some searching I believe that she might have sour crop and it burst. I read that gluing chicken skin back...