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    Sick hen. Sarcina Spp. Any ideas?

    I’m not going to pretend I know a ton about it lol. I’m going off the research I did yesterday. I took 4 samples of poop from my outside group, 3 were runny and one was solid. The 3 runny poops had this in it and the solid did not. At first we thought we were looking at a waste product of...
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    Sick hen. Sarcina Spp. Any ideas?

    I noticed yesterday one of my hens was lethargic and not really eating. I assumed coccidiosis or worms and began treating accordingly. I took what may have been a sample of her poop (could have been somebody else’s) and ran it under a microscope to find what appears to be a bacteria called...
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    Chicken Suddenly Died….

    It sure is! When it happens I wonder if I can handle raising chickens at all. At least Greta’s death wasn’t traumatizing like the Cochin that aspirated. I’ll never get over watching her suffocate, unable to anything about it 😔 Chickens are the best… and yet also the worst.
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    Chicken Suddenly Died….

    Gertie was fine until she got sick. She was always a little smaller than Greta but not by much until the illness. Greta was perfectly fine until last week. No signs anything was off. They were Hoover hatchery chicks so I wonder if Hoover has poor quality chicks. We had 4 Brahmas in the past from...
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    Chicken Suddenly Died….

    All the time! I try my best to keep them cool. Any day 80+ they’re panting. We hose them down when it gets around 85+. It seems to do the trick and they’re used it now and unbothered!
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    Chicken Suddenly Died….

    I have one other Jersey Giant pullet. We bought them together at the same time as babies. The other has been labeled as a “failure to thrive”. She was ill months ago, we almost lost her. But since then, even though she’s healthy, she hasn’t been growing properly. I’ll attach a picture of the...
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    Chicken Suddenly Died….

    I wasn’t going to post about this but it’s been bugging me. 5 days ago I noticed one of our Jersey Giant pullets (18 weeks old) seemed sick. She wasn’t doing anything except laying in the corner of the run all day. Every once in a while she’d eat and drink and when let out to free range, she...
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    Chicken not growing properly??

    I have two Jersey Giants pullets, both are the same age, 18 weeks old. Purchased at the same time from the same place. One is thriving and one is not. The smaller one, Gertie, has struggled with illness in the past but is healthy now. She’s just not growing. Since her illness, we have monitored...
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    Is this heat stroke?

    She laid an egg 2 mornings ago. I didn’t watch her so I don’t know how it went. I checked her for being egg bound and found nothing. Her poop is small and green. I stopped vitamins and started her on Corid in case of Cocci for that. Dewormed as well. They have shade, cool water, fresh food...
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    Is this heat stroke?

    Does this sound like it could be heat stroke or something else? I have a salmon faverolle I noticed was swaying while standing still, falling over backwards and to the sides, stumbling while walking, and tilting her head down and up in a strange manor. She seems very unbalanced but there are no...
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    Mixing Grower and Layer Feed Together?

    Hi there! Last week upon running out of chicken feed, my husband made a quick trip to the store and bought the only feed they had, layer feed. I only have 2 layers. The rest are still young and on grower. Anyway, I had no choice but to feed the layer feed to everyone until we were able to get...
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    Here We Go Again. Bloody Stool!

    No prolapse or injuries. I don’t have pictures of the poop. She didn’t eat much yesterday so I didn’t see her poop anymore. She did start eating again last night, though. She stood at the feeder and chowed down for almost 10 minutes. She’s continuing to eat this morning just smaller amounts more...
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    Here We Go Again. Bloody Stool!

    After battling coccidiosis and worms for a few weeks, losing 1 chick and almost losing another, but thinking it was now under control, I have a hen who is pooping nothing but blood. She has had one dose of dewormer (fenbendazole), second dose due tomorrow. We’ve treated for Cocci with...
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    Hen’s Breed?

    I see what you mean. She’s just really hard to photograph and it’s just the way she’s standing. Her tail isn’t as large in comparison to her body as the picture makes it seem. She’s just weird lol.
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    Hen’s Breed?

    She lays medium brown eggs. Normal egg shape. She’s not being used for breeding so no worries there. None of our Jersey’s are. But she should start gaining weight since we’ve dewormed. I haven’t weighed her since we started deworming but all the ones I have weighed are gaining like crazy.
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