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Actually, looking it up, I think it is Avian pox. There is no treatment, though, so I am not sure what to do. I suppose I can go ahead and give them the Duramycin-10 and see if it is of help to them. It looks like I am going to lose more birds before this is through. No wonder my treatments...

I was given some hens last month, from a friend. Most of my hens came from her, so I didn't think anything of it. The Department of Agriculture thinks that is how it was passed. It can take as long as a month to appear, if it is Mycoplasma. If the antibiotic doesn't work, I am going to take more...

I spoke to the Extensions office and after giving a description to a member of the Department of Agriculture, they think that my hens have contracted a Mycoplasma. I am suppose to start them on tetracycline and hopefully it will help. I will give it a try, but from looking at the offered...

These are the best pictures I could get. I was trying not to use flash to get a more true color. These hens looked perfectly normal last Thursday and this is the state of them as of this morning.

I have looked into coryza, but I don't think that is what it is. They don't have any discharge or labored or rattling breath. It is like, since they can't open their eyes, they just want to sleep and they are wasting away. The problem is it is happening so fast. I have called my local Extensions...

Up until last week, I had a flock of 18 hens and 1 rooster. Most of them were half Americauno and Cochin but from a Rhode Island Red rooster. A few were pure Americauno. This has been a horrible Summer any way. I lost Daddy Rooster to overheating during the great black out of the Summer. We were...