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    Hen with Swollen Eye and Missing Feathers?

    I would only give the antibiotic to a hen who has symptoms like hers. I would close your flock to new birds, or to any going out of the flock (don’t sell or give away birds.) She can survive, and would have a better chance if you can get the pus out of her eye.
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    Hen with Swollen Eye and Missing Feathers?

    If it is coryza, it is contagious, but the others by now are probably exposed. Have you added any new birds recently? You might try treating her with a sulfa antibiotic. Here is one that you can get...
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    Injured eye

    I would try to remove the pus from the eye. It may not get better until you do so. You can you QTips and other tools. You may want to read this other thread where there are videos on removing pus...
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    Hen with Swollen Eye and Missing Feathers?

    Can you try opening the eye to see if there is pus or white material inside? Does she smell bad? Has she any nasal drainage, sneeze, cough, or noisy breathing? She may have a respiratory infection or disease, such as MG or coryza. Has she been picked on a lot in the past by the others? I would...
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    Silkie Hen - Going on 5 days - Possible Wry Neck.

    It does look neurological, or possibly from a seizure. That can happen with a head or neck injury, a vitamin E or thiamine (vitamin B 1) deficiency. Mareks disease occasionally may cause this, but silkies can frequently have wry neck. Treatment consists of giving human vitamin E 400 IU plus a...
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    Is this fowl pox? Is there any way to treat it? Please help

    No, I don’t think that is fowl pox. It looks more like small injuries. You could apply a tiny bit of iodine or leave them alone. The missing feather shaft could be from him pulling it out or scratching. I would look his skin over for any mites or lice moving around under his vent and belly...
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    Overheated chicken! Need help ASAP! Paralysed, Not Eating, and is a MAMMA HEN!

    Can you try putting the chicks with the broody, and see how they do? I would offer some electrolytes in the water. Some water added to a little dish of chicken crumbles and along with the usual dry crumbles would be good to get fluids into her.
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    White liquid urates with green poo

    The chronic eye foam is a sign of mycoplasma gallisepticum or MG, a chronic respiratory disease that also can cause infection in the reproductive tract. I have seen poops like that with hens who had salpingitis or reproductive infection. Does she still lay eggs? For her crop, I would check it...
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    Shell less egg suck in the my silkies bottom?

    Give her a human calcium tablet 300mg or a Tums broken in half orally. Then bring her in where it is warm, and soak her in pan of warm water, and see if she passes it. Try to loosen it from the skin, so she will pass it. Then I would repeat the calcium once a day for a total of 7 days. Most...
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    A yellow scab on one of my hens— mites or infection?

    Is the scab on her breast bone (keel?) That is a common area for a breast blister which is usually from lying on damp ground or bedding or on a rough roost. It happens usually when a hen is not active, and spending more time on the ground or on the roost because they are sore. You can clean it...
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    Cocci or cold

    I would start some Corid at a dosage of 2 tsp of the liquid per gallon of water for 5 days. You might want to bring them in for a few days for warmth in case they are sick. Symptoms of coccidiosis are hunching up, not eating, runny poop sometimes with blood, but not always, and weakness.
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    Ear mites? Vitamin deficiency? Dizzy/stumbling hen, abscess

    An abscess, such as from a dog or cat bite, sometimes may open on it’s own, but a feather cyst can continue to grow and get larger. I would probably lance it after disinfecting the skin, and then squeeze and explore it.
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    HELP my chicken is coughing out blood!!

    I’m sorry that you lost him. I would send his body to your state vet for a necropsy. That would be the best way to test him.
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    Hen has blue-purple lump under skin

    I agree, I would explore it for an ingrown feather.
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    What’s this?

    The scabs on the comb are definitely dry fowl pox, a limited virus spread by mosquitoes. Pox can be spread by disturbing scabs, or shed scabs. It usually clears up in about 3 week, and there is no treatment. I would dab a bit of plain Neosporin or triple antibiotic ointment into the eye, just to...
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