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Chewie has been acting depressed for a week. I have tried to get her into a vet, but the ones that will see chickens are booked. She’s lethargic and skinny (her breastbone is very prominent and she is extremely light compared to her sister). She drinks(though not excessively), and will pick at...

I have a Red Star with a bacterial infection. What is the dosage of oral amoxicillin? mL/lb ??

I have just a few chickens left from my original flock. They are all 8 years old and there are 6 of them. They still look healthy and love to get free range time, except a few of them are feeling skinny to me. They never touch their layer pellets anymore, and have been loving getting into my...

There is a blue egger, and two Cochin bantams.

My babies from MPC came today! I ordered 1 bantam barred rock, 2 bantam assortment, and 1 green/blue egg layer assortment. I know the black one without feathered feet is the barred rock. I’m guessing one of the feathered feet ones is a mottled Cochin. Or they both are? The one with feathered...

A few weeks ago I saw my duck was limping. I checked her over no swelling, cut or bumble foot. She wasn’t moving around as much, but still ate and drank so i decided to keep and eye on her. A couple days after I noticed she didn’t look great. I picked her up and saw she was covered in maggots...

Tractor supply looked it up and it’s on back order for every store. Even trying to google a store for it yields no results. The local vet sells it for $80. What happened to it being sold in stores?

On Sunday, my youngest hen Pirate seemed off. I brought her in, overnight she went downhill and died. The rest of the flock isn’t doing great. They are all 5-7 years old. They haven’t touched their food(Dumor Layer) since Monday. I filled it to the top and they haven’t eaten it. They’ve eaten...

This is one of my favorite hens, Pirate. She is three years old. My youngest one since the rest of the flock is all seven years for the most part. This morning I found her roosting in the coop. She didn’t come out even when I shook mealworms. When I showed her mealworms she ate them though...

My Swedish Flower Hen, Reid has been on and off sick for a year. She would stop eating, and be lethargic. I’d tube feed her for a few days and then she’d be fine. That only happened a couple times last year. This year, it was “well Reid is sick again” it happened so often. I tried treating her...

I have a hen named Raven who is 6 years old. She is a Sumatra. Last year, she prolapsed her vent twice. I did the whole separate her, baths, pushing it back in... It stayed in all winter. Now that the spring is here, it’s prolapsed twice more. She’s just about recovered from this last time, but...

Here we go again with a sick chicken. That’s the problem with having old girls. I have this Swedish Flower Hen Reid who is 4 years old. Last week I saw her being lethargic. She’d come outside and just sit. So I brought her inside. The first night she ate on her own, not enough to fill her crop...

Raven has had a prolapsed vent since Friday. This is the third time it’s happened so far(the other two times were last year). She’s a 6 year old Sumatra hen. I have done prep. H, gave her baths, pushing it in sevral times a day, and while it has gotten better it still won’t go in. She’s also...

i have a lethargic hen. She’s not too interested in eating, but will nibble, and is just slow.

I’ve had three egg bound hens before. All pulled through and laid their eggs within a day. I found my hen, Reid, lethargic yesterday and not too interested in food with poop dripping down her vent. So I took her in, gave her a bath, gave her tums, and let her rest. She still hasn’t laid the egg...

My hen that was attacked by a hawk two weeks ago isn't doing well. She was fine for two weeks after the attack, but yesterday I noticed her being listless. She walks slowly around, doesn't run out to free range right away. She also tilts her head a lot. Her eye that was neat the injury changed...

My chicken was attacked by a hawk. Is cut up on the face and neck. I stopped the bleeding, but it looks like blood had built up in a mass under her waddle. What else can I do for her? I noticed my one hen has a respiratory infection, so I started the whole flock ok antibiotics earlier today...

I just realized most of my flock will be five this year! I hope I have a long time more with them. I looked it up on google but found a variety of answers. I assume age will very breed to breed? That bantams will live longer than large fowl, especially since they don’t lay as much. So, BYC...

So, back story. Last year I hatched a duck and a chick. Raised them together and they became best friends. I got the duck(named Mr. Duck) two more friends once he was old. They were supposed to be female. They then both grew curly tails. A couple weeks ago, my Mr. Duck started attacking Wyatt...

I bought two 'female' Pekin ducks for my Campbell drake months ago. Couple weeks ago I noticed one had acquired a curled tail feather. Was worried the two drakes and female wouldn't get along. Now the other pekin has a curled tail feather. So if it's just three male ducks living together, they...