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  1. D

    Does anyone know what this is and what I can do to help?

    I’m at a loss of what to do here. Been cleaning daily, twice a day now with Epsom salt bath, cleansing spray, and Neosporin. Today is day three I’m worried, she is eating and displaying mostly normal behavior was dirt bathing when I came to clean her up. Keeping her separate also. Does anyone...
  2. gracemortizzle

    Identifying illness help? Worms, vent gleet, something else?

    Hey everyone. First, I want to thank you all for your contributions to this site. You all have been so helpful to me over the years. I'm currently at a loss on which treatment route to go with my girl, Green. She's a Rhode Island Red, almost 3 years old. She's always sorta had a little bit of a...
  3. Nicci0110

    Can i boot the 7 week olds outside?

    They have been indoors with no added heat for a few weeks now. They are fully feathered. 2 australorps, 2 barred rock, and 2 easter eggers. They have been outside all day today in the 40s and 50s It seems it will get as low as 27 tonight though in Mississippi. They have a coop with wood chips...
  4. Hensofthehill

    Egg Bound pullet, delivered the egg but now

    Hello Everyone, can you please help with my situation, any advice or help is greatly appreciated, I love my hens. I have over 50 of them and yesterday I noticed some shavings stuck to her butt, but didnt make much sense of it, as her sisters are starting to lay, i saw a broken egg in the nest...
  5. B

    HELP!! impacted crop of non eating hen with known reproductive issues (Salpingitis and lash eggs)

    I think My favorite hen, 5.5 years old has an impacted crop. She hasn’t been eating well on her own for 5-7 days so I started torpedo feeding her a mashed torpedo of (22% protein chick starter, latter baby bird food, chick grit with probiotics, and probiotic powder) about 5 days ago. When I...
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  7. ChickNanny13

    IDEAS what's the cause?

    I ask those that I give/sell eggs to, please let me know if the eggs is "weird". This is the first in years ... I know who laid it as I have only 3 hens, each laying a different color egg. The hen (1.5yr) who laid this egg had a soft shell egg in May and July, her eggs get odd shaped at times...
  8. HaHaFarms

    Help, swollen face & eye, bloody beak, not eating

    Hoping someone can help me. My 7 1/2 year old buff Orpington is having difficulty eating and drinking, and the concern is becoming real. It started late April, following winter in Minnesota, I thought she had a dirty beak. Snow had just melted, everything kind of muddy. After several weeks it...
  9. Emily_loveschickens

    Day old chick gasping for air. Emergency!

    So we have a day old chick that started going down hill pretty fast a second ago. We gave some nutridrench to see if it would help her but it looks as if she is choking and she can’t seem to swallow and has some water/nutridrench coming up her throat. I don’t know if it’s because we fed her...
  10. Samarkfifijoelynn

    White peacock needs help

    Zues my 3 year old male needs help!!! Is there anyone out there????? He may die.
  11. 1 true Phoenix

    Urgent! Pecked Prolapsed Turkey Vent Please Help!

    I went out to feed this morning and found my turkey hen had a prolapsed vent and her little jerk flock mates decided to peck it excessively. I clean it with Microsyn ah wound and skin Care hydrogel and put some hydrocortisone cream around the edges of her vent and attempted to gently push it...
  12. Missyschix13

    Hen limping and not bearing full weight on Leg

    Calling all my chicken friends! I have chicken down..... repeat I have a chicken down! My first infirmary patient.... All joking aside, my daughter found one of my hens in the corner of the run this afternoon after school. She did get up to come greet her after she entered the run and that's...
  13. F

    Broken Wing

    Anyone have any tips on how to help a hen with a broken wing? I isolated her but all vets in area are closed. TY!
  14. Farmlife16

    Hen found bloodied with swollen vent!!!

    I found my hen yesterday afternoon with a bloody backside. After cleaning her off, I noticed some yellowish discharge from her vent. I suspect that she has a reproductive issue (I've noticed that one of my hens stopped laying the past few days and now I think it is her) and somehow that caused...
  15. ChickNanny13

    Pullet or Cockerel

    This one (with the tuff) has me questioning myself; comb and wattle has me going back & forth although the feathering has me thinking pullet? TSC/Hoover Hatchery purchased in April, Hoover's EE sexed at hatchery & purchased as pullet. The other is from the same batch of chicks & has me...
  16. ChickNanny13

    Cockerel or Pullet?

    I'm trying to convince myself it's pullet, however heard it crow & saw it crow :hmm It's a Marans/WTB (white splash) and according to the hatch date I was given when I got "her", it's 13wks today. The WTG (red/brown) is 15wks old, I'm sure that's a pullet. Need your expertise ... I know it's...
  17. A

    PLEASE READ

    Hi. My three year old leg horn started wheezing on Monday. I attached the video of her. She was acting normal; eating, drinking, and even laid an egg on Monday. I isolated her & treated her last week for worms with safeguard for 5 days. She was so infested with them that her crop became...
  18. Eddie12109

    Not digesting food

    Hi all, My 8 year old hen is having some major crop problems and I don’t know how to fix it. She won’t digest seeds so I brought her inside where for half of the day she eats fruits and lettuce and then the other half she free ranges. she is now starting to poop out water and lettuce and grass...
  19. R

    Sick hen, white bile poops

    Hi everyone, i am having some trouble identifying my hens illness. She is eight years old and is a new hampshire. her symptoms are; - white diarrhea poops with occasional green (bile). I had a sick hen with ascites who laid similar poops and it Had a distinct smell which is the same smell...
  20. R

    Purple comb :(

    Hi everyone, I live in Florida and my chickens usually pant. I have had one in October breathe heavily and sneeze and in a week she died sadly. I know this is some sort of respiratory illness but I’m having trouble on treating it. I have given Doxy-Tyl and Baytril on separate occasions but I...
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