Hello!! I have a 2-year-old flock of Buff Orps, RI Reds, White Orps, Black Australorps & some mixes. Traditional good layers. Today, I checked on them several times, like usual, and each time I found an egg mess in a nesting box. No shells, no shell pieces, but fully broken yoke and white...
My 4.5 year old leghorn hen has had white crusted butt, and clear liquid dripping out of her cloaca constantly. Poop used to be covered in slime but now it looks more normal. I've been treating her for vent gleet, as information about these specific symptoms seems limited. For the past 2 weeks...
hi! my one and a half year old female fawn runner had a normal poop (blue from blueberries lol) and something small, yellow and slimy came out with it. i thought upon first looking that it was a small slug, because it looks and feels like one, but she hasn't eaten any slugs that i know of (we've...
I have a hen that is around 3years old. I took her in from a rescue after she was already laying around 1 yrs old. Healthy since then.
She is getting over a respiratory infection, possibly mycoplasma. She was treated with Tylan injections few weeks ago.
After meds and a week of TLC she got...
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Me and my family are fairly new to owning chickens, with a little experience from the past. Recently we got 7 hens of various breeds and 1 rooster from some friends, and we love them so much.
We left on vacation about a week or two after first getting them, and a seemingly healthy hen...
Have a black chicken. Barnyard surprise so best guess is a Production Black or Australorp hen, turning 1 year old this month, that is laying cracked eggs. The cracks are on both sides of the egg. Lay an egg on its side and push down. Both sides buckle. She has been doing this for over a...
Here I go again. My third chicken with lash egg. The last two lived for a good 6 months but I know she won’t have as long as she should anymore. Thats the last time I get ISA Browns. 😞
The last time I used an antibiotic. I think it was Baytril? I am having trouble finding an appropriate...
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New egg layer, First egg is egg Bound for 5 days going on 6 days I think there is a second egg coming!
DOB: 6-14-17 (almost 1 year old)
Partridge silkie
Eating, drinking and just started today to do the stand up stance! Have giving her Epsom salt bath, 2 rounds of Tums...
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Almost 2 year old Leghorn has been slowly getting worse. Poopy butt. Meaning nasty, unkempt, smelly runny diarrhea hanging on the feathers. Today was green. Green, I've found, is the warning sign that bad things are happening.
Palpation of the abdomen showed a large...
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My sweet 2.5 year old RIR hen, Oia, had a swollen abdomen for at least a couple months that had her having soft poops, eating less, and loss of muscle mass. Her sister died in November from reproductive illness :( Oia seemed to be getting more unwell as her abdomen enlarged, and...
If anyone follows the Old Folks Home thread you'll know that I've been nursing a sick hen for the past three days. She had presented with extreme weight loss, lethargy, fluffed feathers but good appetite and was drinking. Stool was normal. Vent looked normal. Physical exam was unremarkable with...