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  1. H

    Hen Acting Sick. Help!!

    Hi all, So I have a 3 year old Buff Brahma hen named Paisley. She’s super sweet and friendly, one of my favorite girls. Recently, I’ve noticed that she’s been acting quite lethargic. She has had lead poisoning from contaminated dirt in the past so I took her to the vet to see if maybe she’d...
  2. MichelleKing

    Symptomatic hen, can't account for illness

    I have a VERY sick bantam buff laced polish hen (frizzle). She is 1.5 years of age. On Friday it was warm and I let the chickens out to free range. She was fine and running around like the little spunk she is. Yesterday, Saturday, I found her crouched, wings down, head down, backside curved...
  3. D

    URGENT SICK HEN

    Hi, This is not much of introduction... I'll have to do one later! One of my ex-battery hens (I have had for around 2 months) fell ill last Saturday- I diagnosed her with an impacted crop and spent the last week massaging it and taking her to the vet. The vet was willing to cut it open and...
  4. S

    Emergency/disease

    I have a twelve chicken flock. My buff orpington, Patty was not in the roost the other night when I went to close the coop door. We had recently got a new lighting setup for my coop, and I figured it just needed to be adjusted and it was too dark for her to want to jump onto a roost. So I picked...
  5. Chickenma65

    Sick silkie hen

    posting for a friend who is not on this website. she have a silkie who is breathing heavy, She picked her up and a clear liquid came out of her mouth. She tried to give her a crushed egg and shes not eating it. Hen has had a very dirty back end and so She treated her for worms. She’s not sure if...
  6. scalci

    Help! Skin peeling on entire body and weird noises!!

    Hi, My girls have been struggling with scaly leg mites and lice for a few months now. I had two 7+ y/o hens die a few months ago and now I have two 3 y/o and a 8.5 y/o. One of the 3 y/o’s has had a bare inflamed butt for about a year now but other than that has been fine. I have treated the...
  7. C

    Feather Loss and No Eggs! Help!

    Hi everyone! I live in Australia and gave three backyard chickens, I'm pretty sure they're ISA browns. We've had them about two years, from a few months old. A few months ago the girls all went through molt. But one never grew them back, and has continued losing feathers on her chest, neck...
  8. TinaMarieofFL

    Chronic Crop Binding

    Hello BYC Peeps (pun intended) I've been having an issue with an 18 mo Ameraucana hen. She has what I believe to be crop binding. This latest episode is the 4th one in a month. Is this normal? Does she have some disorder/malfunction? When this occurs, I bring inside for several days each...
  9. averypls

    Green Poo.. Lethargic Chicken..

    Sorry for the gross poop picture, but im at a loss and dont know what to treat my sweet Poppy for.. shes been lethargic for the past two days, ive noticed bright/dark green liquid poop.. i assumed it had more liquid than usual because its hot here and shes consuming more water, but i dont think...
  10. Rammy

    Cream Legbar with watery eyes

    Pasr couple days one of my female CLs I noticed has watery eyes. Today I noticed she has bubbles coming out if her nose. Her crop is full and she seems normal other than that. Not really lethargic but not very speedy either. I gave her some nutridrench tonight but wonder if I should separate her...
  11. T

    Hen not eating but drinking

    Help, My poor Chewy is not doing well. I had just recently treated her for sour crop and that seems to be dealt with. However she is no long eating any food. She still drinking plenty of water (with nutri-drench added), but doesnt go for the food. When she had sour crop she would eat almost...
  12. S

    Hen being ostracized after absence

    Hi there! I've been using this website as a resource for the small flock of chickens I took over from my mother, but this is my first post. A couple weeks ago we thought one of the hens had been taken by a predator while free ranging during the day. Ten days later I found her trapped in a roll...
  13. UpstateMamma

    SWOLLEN FACE. HELP.

    I have a 2 yo buff Orpington that has a swollen face around her right eye. It came on in a matter of hours, she was fine when I let them out in the morning yesterday, then in the afternoon it was swollen. I gave her .5ml children’s Benadryl yesterday, along with some antibiotic ointment on the...
  14. UpstateMamma

    HELP. SWOLLEN EYE.

    I have a 2 yo buff Orpington that has a swollen face around her right eye. It came on in a matter of hours, she was fine when I let them out in the morning yesterday, then in the afternoon it was swollen. I gave her .5ml children’s Benadryl yesterday, along with some antibiotic ointment on the...
  15. Akpahsj

    Hen Making Gurgling Noises, Lethargic and has Diarrhea?

    Not sure what is up with my hen :/ I let my chickens out to free range this morning and I saw her jump out of a nesting box after everyone was gone and walk outside. When I came back after putting the chicks in their outdoor run, I noticed her laying down and making gurgling noises. When I...
  16. suzfau

    Six year old hen very unsteady on feet.

    My little Copper Marans girl, what to do. In her youth she sat upon a tower of 15 eggs and hatched them all. (We didn't realize she was broody, in the current favorite nest box...so much to learn.) Two years ago she came down with very stubborn bumble foot in both feet. Vet prescribed...
  17. Georgeschicks

    2 two and a half year old hens stopped laying

    hello! my two and a half year old bcm and delaware hens stopped laying recently. the bcm hasn’t been laying for a while but we didn’t realize that our delaware wasn’t laying until this week bc we had two other hens who layed similar eggs. the bcm i posted about previously and people told me she...
  18. Georgeschicks

    chicken has a purple floppy comb and is not laying

    hello! I have a two year old bcm hen. she has not been laying recently but I didn’t think anything of it because she has always been a bad layer. two days ago i noticed that her comb is purple floppy and I am wondering what is wrong. her activity has been weird lately too. she often stands stock...
  19. birdson

    Deaf Chicken?

    I have a white plymouth rock hen named Dorris. She (unlike the other hens) becomes extremely distressed at times. She begins to screech very loudly when she strays too far from the group and realizes the other hens are out of sight, even when all the hens are clucking and cooing. She can’t...
  20. Aries41683

    Sick chicken

    Hi all, we have a sick chicken and was looking for some suggestions. Our 5 year old Bantam mix is feeling under the weather. She's very weak and will only eat or drink out of your hand. Her stool is a clear mucus with a bit of green. Today was the warmest day this year so I thought she might be...
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