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    Swollen hock on young chicken

    Well we drained the abcess twice, and once one on the other leg. That one was smaller, but still had some pus in it. Be she's been good for a couple weeks now, nothing filling up again. Seems healthy enough so I guess we got it taken care of, whatever it was.
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    Swollen hock on young chicken

    Definitely an abcess of some sort, just drained the whole thing of thick whitish pus. Made a little incision, gently squeezed it all out, irrigated it with benzoil peroxide, smeared some neosporin on it, put some gauze on it and a little vet wrap on top. Hopefully I got all that right from the...
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    Swollen hock on young chicken

    Just went to feel it again and when I squeezed it a little this time some pus came out. So I guess I need to get in there.
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    Swollen hock on young chicken

    A week ago we picked up some sexlink pullets from a small local farm. Looks like a good operation. Got four that all seem healthy and have started laying. He also gave us a freebie that wasn't growing and he didn't know why. It's about a fourth the size of the rest. He said what they were...
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