recovery

Hi! I’m new to the group. My family and I bought 4 baby chicks 6 months ago and we have just fallen in love with them. Our one hen Chickaletta is very sick. I’m pretty sure she was egg bound. I looked up similar issues and how to resolve them in this site and they truly helped. I gave her an...

Sadly, I think my sweet, 6mo polish chicken, Big Bird (BB) suffered a fracture to her hock and an injury to her tendon last Friday, and there appears to be a little nerve damage as well but still good circulation. Twice I've taken her to the vet to be put down (my husband is attached to this...

Our beautiful roo has Bumble. We only caught it this morning, he had started to limp a bit more than usual (always had a tiny limp since we got him), not like that yesterday. Bottom of right foot is swollen and warm, noticeably different from the left. I read an article on this site to treat it...

After a disastrous hatch, with the broody abandoning her eggs right at the crucial moment. I've had one lovely silkie hatch out, but unsurprisingly given the turmoil of her hatching, she has some problems. She has quite a bad case of splayed legs, which hopefully you can make out in the picture...

Hi, I have a polish bantam, a very special pet, who I discovered last Thursday with egg peritonitis, I have had her on antibiotics for nearly 10 days, and she seems to be doing very well, however I have just taken her to the vets to have her fluid drained again, as she hasn’t been eating well...

Dear All, Yesterday we realized that Harriet, a ~3 year old Cochin that we recently inherited, was egg bound when she went 2-3 days without an egg (very unusual) and that she was in and out of the nesting box, sitting for 30-90 minutes at a time with no egg (also very unusual). My wife managed...

I'm not a farmer, not someone who raises chickens for a living, nada. I'm a country girl in the Caribbean and there's always wild chickens that run around without any help from humans. Recently in the last several months two dogs have been killing them out in my neighborhood. I've raised a...

Came home from vacation and my Mama's face was swollen to the point her eye on one side was closed. She was kind of lethargic but still drinking and walking around. Found a black widow in the nest boxes, killed it but could be that. They are outside but caged in a huge 20x20 space. Other ladies...

Good morning all, We have a goose who protected her flock (chickens, duck, geese) from a bobcat last week. In the process, she got pretty badly beat up. Her wounds are now healing great (about 3 inches of skin ripped from her neck, eye was also bit) and she is happy as can be. She is active...

My 12 week old barred rock girl had a terrible case of respiratory illness (suspected MG?) swollen snotty eyes, runny nose, very lethargic, wheezing. I have been giving her antibiotics (Tylan50 injectin) 4 days now. Her eyes are swollen shut still, although they look slightly better now than...