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  1. L

    Why won't my chickens grow??

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  2. N

    Sick approx 4 month old chicken don’t know what’s wrong with her help please….

    Hello All, I am hoping someone can shed some insight and or help. I have a 3-4 month old chicken that is not doing well by that I mean not drinking and barely eating or moving about for two days. She did come out into the sun and laid down but today just laying there eyes open sometimes when...
  3. dhumaigobae

    Bumble foot - is this how it should be healing?

    Hi everyone- I need some advice. I have a nearly 10 year old chicken who was attacked by a racoon 2 months ago (all in the coop were injured or killed). At first she showed no outward injury- we thought she had been shoved off the roost in the panic of the other birds and it seemed the ankle...
  4. Amy Weaver

    When to know to discontinue treatment?

    I think most of us have been there. We have a chicken that's sick and you've tried everything, so how do you know when to stop treatment and just leave them be? I have a Welsummer hen that's close to 5 years old who started mouth breathing and sneezing about a month ago, plus not eating or...
  5. W

    Sick Weak Chicken Rapidly Decline

    My 16 week lavender Orpington is very sick. It started yesterday when I saw her laying flat not moving. I brought her inside thinking it was heat stress. It was 98 degress, but not the hottest day we have had i feel like. She was eating and drinking but still very weak. Overnight it seems she...
  6. Kiwi_The__arnevelder

    Is my new silkie sick?

    Hello, i recently bought this cute silkie hen last night. Today i was getting her used to me and she seemed pretty tamed but i never saw her run. I realised her poop was very reddish orange and i’m just really worried she might be sick? or is it the new environment? perhaps coccidia? She seems...
  7. crunchygranola

    Chicken ICU?

    Had a poor girl pass out from the heat though the rest of her flock handled it very well. I immediately brought her inside after submerged her body in cold water for a few minutes. Got her comfortable freezing water and frozen fruit, two mini fans set up, and cold compresses around her. She...
  8. K

    sick Australorp, please help.

    Recently one of my 2 year old Australorp hens has been acting strange. She seemed tired and kept secluding herself from the flock to rest in the corner, and one of her eyes seemed to be bothering her. I didn't think much of it because she had been known to be shy, and it has been so hot lately...
  9. Chapmangc1

    Very sick chicken who’s lost weight, has a crop the size of a softball, and has thrown-up. Help!

    My family and I went on a vacation for Three weeks and I had a church friend watching my chickens while I was gone. Before I left, one of my chickens was not acting 100% right, but there were no obvious symptoms other than mildly lethargic. I got home today and she was not doing well. She...
  10. BrahmaBaby

    Using Herbs for Chickens?

    Hello, I was reading an article that was an interview of Lisa Steele I believe. She was talking about using herbs for her chickens, which I’ve been wanting to try. I ended up buying French Lavender, lemon grass, oregano, parsley and mint. Does anyone have experience with these? How do I...
  11. Grace8269

    CHICKEN SICK FOR 3+ WEEKS

  12. S

    HELP!! Sicks chickens

    I’ve been battling sick baby chicks and now my pullets are getting sick too. First I had chicks that had wry neck. I thought it was a vitamin deficiency so I do them up on vitamin e, selenium, b1, nutri drenched and electrolytes. Those chicks are 100% better now. I started with respiratory...
  13. Kenz_T2172

    Diarrhea and Lethargy

    Hi everyone. I have an olive egger hen who just turned a year old- Yesterday morning I noticed she was hanging out by herself off in a corner or inside the coop alone. She walks around but not a whole lot. When she does walk it appears normal. Feathers aren’t fluffed or anything like that. She...
  14. chickennl0ver

    URGENT! any chicken vets in new england area?

    for context, i just posted yesterday (link attached with backstory and images) https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/broody-chicken-with-crop-problems-please-help.1626112/#post-27775536 about my 4-year-old hen pearls who is having crop issues. this is now day 4 of her crop issues and i am at...
  15. T

    Ammonia burn or beginning of Bumblefoot?

    I have a Lavender Orpington that was recently broody, has since hatched her chicks and is still separated with them. They are sleeping in a small crate but free range all day. There are two black spots on her foot that I don’t really know what it is. There is no swelling and their living...
  16. crunchygranola

    Is my chicken sick?

    I don’t have the experience yet to discern a perfectly healthy chicken from a slightly lazy one, and I’m worried one of my girls is sick. She tends to stay behind in her coop when I let the rest of her flock out to free range for a while, she has been having weird, yellow, foamy poops, eating...
  17. H

    Chicken deworming

    Hello all, I’m posting from the south of uk. I have a few questions related to deworming chickens using Flubendazole 1% ( a powder I believe) I brought a chicken (Appenzeller Spitzhauben) inside today after noticing movement in her droppings. Like a pinworm looking thing. I’ve brought her...
  18. Emrosenagel

    Can probiotic powder cause problems?

    Hello! I made a post yesterday about my hen (9 month old blue andulusian) who suddenly started acting weird, not herself, lethargic. Things got even stranger at night when she decided to sleep in the nesting box and then, at 12am, starting doing the egg song/distress call for about ten minutes...
  19. F

    Please any insight is appreciated!! Eye infection or something more serious?

    Hello everyone, I could use some guidance/advice. I have one hen, about 9 months old, that isn’t doing great. A few weeks ago, I noticed her one eye was super swollen/crusty and looked severely infected. She also had diarrhea. I took her to the vet, they prescribed an antibiotic, an...
  20. L

    Sick chicken with creamy yellow poop with a orange looking thing in the center

    I have a chicken that I noticed yesterday acting sick. I brought her in to separate from other chickens. She ate a little yougart last night nothing today. She will take water from a dropper. Yesterday she pooped several times clear,white, with green it was watery. Today she pooped once creamy...
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