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    Chicken has issues with a bad smell and weird poop

    Have you done any treatment for sour crop yet? I would definitely start there. It sounds like it. There is a good article on how to treat different crop issues. Here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/sour-crop-impacted-crop-doughy-crop-prevention-and-treatments-of-crop-disorders.67194/
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    Help - 3 weeks of diarrhea. Nothing has worked!

    Just an update I still have her crated with probiotics in water. I’ve also made a mix of her regular feed and exaco baby bird feed heavily mixed with probiotic water for her to eat. I figure the more liquidy it will help her eat/digest/stay hydrated in the process. She is interested in food and...
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    HELP- found hen caught upside down, almost died. What now?

    Hey Penny, I don’t think she made it, but it’s been so long I can’t recall if this was the thing that was her final demise or if she partially recovered and then something else happened after. This poor girl had a rough go and the flock never really took her back integrated so she was always...
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    Help - 3 weeks of diarrhea. Nothing has worked!

    @ @Eggcessive any thoughts? Thank you! I do have probiotics in her water and I’m mixing baby bird feed in with her regular feed for an extra nutrient boost. I’ll try the coconut oil and more consistent massaging of the crop. I know she’s getting old and it’s possible it’s related to that it...
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    Help - 3 weeks of diarrhea. Nothing has worked!

    Hi all, long time chicken keeper and BYC forums and articles have helped me save countless chickens over the years. I have a black sex-linked hybrid chicken who is an older lady, about 8 at this point. For the last 3 weeks she has had almost completely clear, very watery diarrhea. Prior to...
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    Lethargic Hen- Reoccurring Illness Monthly? What's Wrong?

    Any way to know if that’s what she has? I’ve also thought maybe IB? Thoughts on treatment?
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    Lethargic Hen- Reoccurring Illness Monthly? What's Wrong?

    I put out oyster shells every now and then, but not consistently. I have some now and could put some out.
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    Lethargic Hen- Reoccurring Illness Monthly? What's Wrong?

    I appreciate that. Yes I’ve lost a few hens relatively young over the years and I wonder if there is an underlying illness affecting them. It hasn’t been all of my flock, but some. I haven’t sent any of my birds in for necropsies before, but I have heard of it. Maybe I will do that next time and...
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    Lethargic Hen- Reoccurring Illness Monthly? What's Wrong?

    She is probably about 10+ months now. I got her as a pullet and they didn’t know her exact age. Started laying with the other around late august/early September. I’m not quite sure what she had before, but when she was introduced to my flock along with another pullet she got ill. It was...
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    Lethargic Hen- Reoccurring Illness Monthly? What's Wrong?

    We are in Austin TX. Nothing off about her droppings. Crop was normal this morning and empty. Have not seen any mites or lice. Egg laying has not been consistent for her I think because her illness prior to laying has affected her laying consistency, but nothing has changed there.
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    Lethargic Hen- Reoccurring Illness Monthly? What's Wrong?

    Hi All, I have a Giant Brahama pullet who is full grown and recently laying that has had repeated instances of intermittent lethargy the last few months. She gets lethargic, huddles in a corner and sleeps all day, slow to respond, isolates herself... I put her in a "hospital crate" separate...
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    HELP- found hen caught upside down, almost died. What now?

    Hi All, My dear Ellie girl has had a tough go at it the last 10 months. I just found her yesterday afternoon with her leg caught on some chicken wire near the coop and she was stuck hanging upside down. I don’t know how long she was hanging like that for, she was out of the coop in the morning...
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    HELP PLEASE: Lethargic, Sick Chicken Showing Several Symptoms

    Just to update anyone who may use this later as advice as well as get feedback on what I should do now. Ellie is still alive. It’s been about a week and a half since I brought her inside. I treated her with 1/4 tsp of cooper sulfate in the water for the last 5 days (Saturday- Wednesday). She...
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    HELP PLEASE: Lethargic, Sick Chicken Showing Several Symptoms

    Ok spent my morning running around collecting different supplies for process of elimation. Spoke with feedstore and they told me to try copper sulphate first. I read on another post you said 1/4 tsp per gallon? Is that the correct dosage. I don’t want to improperly dose and kill her. Let me...
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    One person tube feeding.

    If you can figure out tube feeding or get a friend to hold the chicken while you tube feed it is much safer not syringing properly right into the birds mouth means you could actually get it down their windpipe and aspirate the bird. They could die... so if doing this way only do very very small...
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