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    ❦Rhodered10❦ 2010-08-12 I am very new to owning chickens and i am having lots of fun raising them. I have 10 chickens that are a rhode island red mix i bought them from our local tsc and i love them very much and i treat them well. (i can tell that because they started producing eggs at...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    Quote: Thats great! I had one of my hens just go back to normal like that too it was the weirdest thing, the good news she is still perfectly healthy so i hope ur hen turns out the same way. Un fortunatly i just had another one of my hens starting to get sick too same symptoms, shes one of my...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    Quote: Ur poor girl i hope she is okay i dont know what it could be but when i used to ride horses at a stable they had a young horse there who had a disease that caused his neck to sometimes get locked into a certain position and the when u would massage it he would be fine a little dazed...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    My girl also showed signs of being broody even though there werent any eggs her to be boody with, she did seem like she was molting because she stopped laying for quite a while but it could have just been that way because she was sick. I hope everyone elses chickens r okay, my girl is learning...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    O boy its been a long time, well my girl is still sick even after all this time she is improving alot so i guess thats good its just taking so much time for her to recover. I hold hope that she may fully recover although my dad thinks that she may have some permanent nerve damage but i guess we...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    i see improvements!!!! last night i noticed that she was starting to turn around! i noticed to day that she is eating alot more, her poop is now yellow or brown instead od bright green and she is even attempting to stand a little now! i dont know what caused this but either she is fighting it...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    oh okay thanks yeah i highly doubt it is a calcium deficiancy but you never know. complete list of symptoms up to this point 1 sevre weakness or floppy paralysis of both legs but no where else 2 green droppings, some what runny mainly just mushy normal except for some fleshy looking things...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    Quote: tums for a chicken? ive never heard of that what would it do to help her? ive been whatching her and she does eat things that are new to her, like she wont eat her regular food a whole lot but she loved it when i gave her finely choped pumpkin seeds and grit today. this whole thing is...
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    how to treat botulism

    i have been researching for some time now but it is just so hard to diagnose because it is just so strange. i havent been giving her the supplement for almost 2 days now and she is about the same, she loves grit tho. i noticed that she is eating and drinking almost normal amounts, maybe a little...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    i know that her recovery might be short lived but i have to say it is good to see at least one of the 2 get better, i will keep a very close eye on her but as of right now she is completly normal! as for pumpkin the more sick hen she is not so great, i made her some mash to try and get her to...
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    how to treat botulism

    thanks for your reply, i thought it was botulism because of my other girls strange recovery. i think it must be something intestinal but it doesnt sound like a vitamin defficiancy to me or a dicease. its all so confusing and frustrating to me, i want totreat it but i dont really know how because...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    strange thing happening, my girl honey who had one leg paralized and was displaying the same smptoms as my other more sick girl is suddenly all better! i dont understand it didnt even do any treatment with her yet and just yesterday i noticed she was wlking completly normaly and yet my other...
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    how to treat botulism

    i have another topic up right now about all of the puzzleing smptoms my hens ahve been having the past couple of days. although it still could be anything we all now believe that it could be botulism. it started about 2 days ago with paralysis of 2 of my hens legs one of the hens was worse than...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    o my poor girl i hope i dont loose her. should i worm her and start vitamin therapy?
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    checked on my girl pumpkin, she is getting worse, her droppings are green and runny but in it i found a dark pinkish thing when i smashed it it had what looked like little eggs in it. could that be a worm? if it is a worm what kind do u think it is? it was small about the size of .....a quarter...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    thanks for your reply leadwolf1 its very helpfull, but would a wormer be okay with all of these vitamins? and what about nurtidrench? they are looking worse today at this point i am willing to try anything and everything, like you i cant just whatch as my chickens waste away.
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    i think i might do some vitamin therapy, ill try polyvisol and a vitamin b complex. the issue is does anyone know where i could get polyvisol? and how do you use it. i will try to do a little research i guess. is this a good plan or does anyones else think that i should try something differant...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    thanks for all of your replys, my dad will refuse to call a vet to see what might be going on so its up to me the internet and whatever i can buy at a store. i feel so helpless, i am debating vitamin therapy like everyone has been metioning. everyone in my familt seems to think that it is worms...
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    anyone?
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    paralysis in 2 of my hens legs, strange signs here, help!!!

    thanks for your reply, they are eating and drinking just fine. ive had my chickens for about a year and a half now we got them at tractor supply companys chick days in the spring, we havent had any new chickens and these girls are our first ever flock, havent had any chickens on the property...
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