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Your hen should probably be indoors where it's warm, the cold when they're sick is often too much for them.

Fancy scale! If your sulfa drug doesn't work for you, you might want to have Corid (amprolium) on hand. I prefer the liquid.

Interesting thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/758621/coccidiosis-sulmet-or-corrid

You might want to get yourself a digital kitchen scale (see my avatar) and get a baseline weight on your birds. At their age, they should be gaining weight, so any loss is cause for concern.

If all of their poop looks funny, they probably have coccidiosis, worms or an infection. You have to learn to trust your gut feeling.

I was just replying to someone that liked the poo page and made a comment about it today. The rest of the posts are quite old...

Or if *all* poops look like this, there is probably a problem.

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The poo page has a few pictures labeled normal that I think are abnormal. Below are normal, I agree. If the majority of a chicken's poop does *not* look like this, there is probably a problem. For example, if one sees this all day long, I'd be willing to bet that the chicken has a...