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He must've had an injury and it healed but maybe there is an infection inside. I'd try soaking his foot in warm Epsom salt water for several minutes to see if it will soften up for you to check better.

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We made a temporary coop for ours. Ours mingled too out in the yard, but it'd be another two months before we dared try get them to sleep in the coop at night without being pecked and harassed by day in there. Then, we had more I hatched and made another temp coop. Our backyard is starting to...

Hi, and welcome to BYC! How old are they now? Are they on chick starter crumbles without being fed anything else? Eating and drinking fine? What's their bedding? Are they under a heat source with a way to get away from the heat?

Gosh, so sorry Cookie's going through all this. Had you wound up deworming her? If so, she needs probiotics afterward, such as a little bit of yogurt a couple times a day for a week or two, or just powders you can put in her water. We use Hydro-Hen. Here are two excellent articles about crop...

No other younger ones are exhibiting anything wrong? I'd almost have though coccidiosis but it's odd for an older chicken to get that, especially if a younger one didn't have it to spread. Her poops have been okay? Have you ever wormed them? I never have mine but if it's not coccidiosis...

So pretty. It'll be interesting what it looks like as an adult! You'll have to update us!

I would give her one of your Calcium +D pills. Try give it to her whole by opening her beak and setting it in her mouth. That will cause contractions so if she's got another egg also bound, she should expel it. If she doesn't, it won't hurt her. I hope she improves!

It's probably coming out of her vent due to the extra liquids in her. I would keep up the electrolyte water for another day and keep her at room temperature.

I would first give your hen one of your Calcium +D pills. Try get her to take it whole by opening her beak and setting it in her mouth. That will cause contractions so she should expel the egg or what's left of one. I would also give her a soak in warm Epsom salt water. That too may relax...

Fox can jump over 6' fences, but not get through a 3"x3" hole. They could if it was 4"x4". Mink or weasels could though.

If it's Cocciodosis, they can die quickly from that, so I'd stop the vitamins and give Corid. You can always make up the vitamins afterward. I'd give probiotics afterward too.

Hi, and welcome to BYC!! :frow You can feed baby bird or baby parrot food. Harris is the brand of baby parrot food we used. Did the Vet put her on E and selenium or scrambled eggs and B-complex? I hope she recovers!

No problem, many of us have been through these things and learned as we go. Just FYI though, a swollen eye isn't a symptom of coccidiosis either, but at least they got through it. Terramycin is for eye infections and that's what many of us would have suggested, after rinsing it with saline...