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I have a very sick chicken with a very full, slow crop and who is hardly eating and drinking. (Someone on the post about her recommended posting this question separately. That thread is here...

I don't know if Penny is sick or really depressed (my other chicken died) or both! Penny *was* a hefty (overweight) chicken to begin with, so she must be using up all her reserves and more.... My other chicken, Blondie, died on May 6th and Penny appears depressed, but I think something else is...

I took her to the vet on Thursday after she stopped eating. He said to force feed her and he gave us a week's worth of Enrofloxacin... but it doesn't seem to have touched it. Any ideas out there as to what it could be and what I can do to help her? I was giving her just a bit of powdered...

Hi all, Blondie is a 3 year old chicken that has been sick for a week. Edit: in the light of day, I see just how long this is! My apologies in advance! (The short questions - how long does it take an antibiotic to work, any thoughts on the flapping question below, any ideas on what else to do...

1) 5 year old easter egger 2) behavior: Penny, my oldest hen has been trying to lay an egg for the last few days, going into the nest box and then coming out...which has happened before and eventually she lays an egg, although sometimes the shell is very thin or even shell-less or what looks...

Hi all, My beautiful, sweet Tracy was fine yesterday morning, then early afternoon we noticed that she stayed inside instead of going out with my other two girls and we also noticed very watery but small droppings. When roosting time came she didn't want to go up, but after a while she jumped up...

At first I thought it was just intestinal lining because it's been pretty orange, but this seems to have more blood and it's gone on for 3 maybe 4 days and seems worse. My chicken has also not been herself - it could be due to a heavy molt, but I'm not sure. She has always gobbled down food...

Hi All, My ~ 1 year old easter egger chicken stopped laying 5 weeks ago, after a 2-3 day illness where she got really sick but bounced back quickly ( she stopped eating and hardly moved - this was after the same happened to another chicken). Since then, she goes to the nest box several times...

My alpha chicken, Penny a hefty 4-5 year old Easter Egger, is feeling poorly. I didn't notice anything wrong until last night, instead of going to roost in the coop, she went into a nest box I keep on the floor in my back mud room and stayed there, initially standing up for a while, but...

Here's a challenge for problem solvers! I have a pullet with Marek's (according to the vet). She has been falling over on her side and her back and off the roost since sometime in October. It finally got to the point where we could no longer leave her with the other two chickens because the...

I'd appreciate any info and suggestions... Background: I only have 3 hens now, an older really mean alpha hen and two pullets I bought from the same farm, they are about 9-10 months old. "Blondie" started to show signs of Marek's about 5 weeks ago... my partner and I had planned to visit my...

Hi all... just looking to see if anyone has any information that might be useful in this situation... We bought two Ameraucana pullets 2 & 1/2 months ago. They're probably somewhere between 6 to 8 months old now, and we're a little worried about one of them... We started noticing "Blondie" had...

Hi all, I'd love your opinion on these two. I bought them last weekend after one of my 2 hens died... and I didn't want the remaining one to be alone.... (and I thought it would get her to stop crowing each morning, but she hasn't and that's another story!) I was told they were hens, but...

Hi all, I've searched through many poop photos but haven't found anything quite like this. The poops are solid, no diarrhea, but the urea is not at all white. Initially the urea was a light yellow (not yolk yellow) and now it's turned into a greyish green color, sometimes reminds me of the...

Yikes! Look at this!! Not what we expected at all... :( My hen has had peritoneal fluid accumulating and drained 4 times between June - and the first week of November (picture below after first time). We were assuming egg yolk peritonitis and that it would kill her eventually, but she...

I've always wondered if it is just a waste to take probiotics while on antibiotics - I would think the probiotics would just die soon after they are ingested since the antibiotics are already in the hen's - or my system for that matter. I've also wondered about ACV - will the acidity interfere...

I'm trying to get out the door to work and need to figure out a good way to do this! Thanks!

I think one of my chicken's foot got hung up in the wire in the coop when she was jumping off a perch this morning. I went looking for her this morning when she hadn't come out from the coop. She was thankfully on the ground, but with one leg up high and her foot still stuck in the wire...

Hi all - I've been dealing with a hurt chicken and not paying as much attention to the others! One's had slightly soiled rear feathers and runny poop - but otherwise, had been acting fine. I finally let the hurt chicken out this morning and turned my attention to this other chicken. I looked...

I'm worried about her running around outside while it's so wet and muddy and getting her foot infected- so I'm going to keep her inside until her foot has healed enough - but does anyone know about how long it takes a foot to heal? I didn't have to go in very deep at all. She is one of my...