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Nope, I haven't read that one before... Thanks! My normal vet showed me how to do it with antibiotics once after one of my silkie hens got scalped. That's pretty close to how I've done it in the past when I've had help, but I thought bread cubes might be easier since I was on my own. The vet...

Yesterday I felt like throwing in the towel after attempting to worm 39 birds by myself. I had a list of their names, baggies of bread chunks soaked with valbazen for each size, but it didn't go well. I got a few to cooperate then gave up and spent the rest of the day feeling sorry for myself...

Thank you, turtlesgalore. Just got a call from the vet with the fecal sample results from mixed poop from my flock. She said they have a moderate load of Ascarid, which is round round. I'll give them all valbazen tomorrow and again in 10 days. Now I'm tortured by the thought that my hen...

Thank you Bubbles12345. Today was a little easier. Yesterday was awful!

Toddrick, the vet mentioned calcification. I have no idea how to read the X-ray, but I would be pretty upset if I learned that her gizzard was actually normal looking, and/or that she could have been treated and saved. Unfortunately there are no chicken expert vets in my area.

Thanks Kathy. It is SO hard to lose one (I've lost young ones to predators on the last) but especially a favorite because they just don't come along everyday. I did not know that but will file the link for future reference. Yesterday I wasn't prepared for what happened - I thought they...

Thank you, rides2far.

Thank you, WalnutHill. I appreciate it.

Had to put my sweetest hen down today. :((( She was a rescue and I've known for a long time that something wasn't right with her, because oftentimes there was a clicking sound when she breathed. The heat was really hard on her this summer and she made distressed noises while she was laying her...