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Poor babies don't know how to chicken at all. Have yours had their beaks trimmed? I have friends that have gone the rescue route and had hens living to 8+ years. All our girls were week old chicks, so never had it rough. Most people here 'dump' them when they go into moult instead of doing the...

They're just so fragile. All three if our hybrids have passed this last winter coming up 3 years old. Pretty sure they were all reproductive tumors and organ failure. With one, we had to deal with acites and the last girl, I chose to put down instead of watching her deteriorate slowly after a...

I was lucky I'd done all this research on possible illnesses and found lash eggs early on, so knew what it was when it first happened. She'd been laying soft and no shells for a week before the first lash came through. She was my first to go into lay and had been giving us double yolkers. I...

It's not impossible for them to recover on their own. My hen was stuck in a queue for the exotic vet and managed to pass all the lash material and gotten over her fever by the time her appointment was ready and did not need to go on antibiotics. Granted she was young, had only just come into...

Lash eggs can also be soft and curdy - will grow more hard and rubbery as the infection progresses. With your egg there, are the coloured areas hard or soft? When opened, what are the contents of the egg like? Anything's Ng that looks pussy? As for who done it, my first suspect would be your...