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    Unsure what's wrong with my hen...

    Hello everyone, wanted to say Esmeralda is back to her old self. Thanks to everyone for your advice and guidance 🙂
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    Unsure what's wrong with my hen...

    She seems to be getting better, she is much more mobile today. I kept her with the flock because she is the leader and the other two don't bother her. I've...never dewormed? I have not seen any signs that they may have worms and when I had one of my hens necropsied a few months ago, she was...
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    Unsure what's wrong with my hen...

    Some updates: Last evening I soaked her with Epsom salts and gave her egg for dinner. She got herself into the coop again at night, but still seemed a little unstable on the bar so I've been letting her sleep in unused nest boxes so she won't fall over. This morning she seems able to stand for...
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    Unsure what's wrong with my hen...

    Yes, the thing on the bottom of her foot looked just like that! It was quite hard, but the location and look was the same. There was no redness or blistering or anything like that. This morning she is still having trouble standing, but she ate some egg and a little wet feed pretty heartily this...
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    Unsure what's wrong with my hen...

    I didn't see a blister anywhere, just the mass. She was able to get into the coop tonight, but seemed unstable on the rooting bar. I will treat it like bumble foot. If there's no blister, does that mean anything?
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    Unsure what's wrong with my hen...

    I started this morning thinking my hen was egg bound - she was ducky walking, tail dropped, and seemed unable or unwilling to stand) but by noon she had made a big (yellow and very stinky) poo and laid an egg. She ran from me when I tried to check her out around lunch time and seemed alert so I...
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    What is wrong with my chicken? Acting egg bound but laying eggs

    Hi, is there any update on your bird? I have a 2yo Australorp that is showing these symptoms this morning. Laid yesterday and seemed fine, was out of the run for about an hour in the evening with my husband watching. This morning she came out of the coop and was standing with dropped tail and...
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    Is this "egg bound" or something else?

    Hi, what do the yellow urates in the droppings signify? I have a hen who is exhibiting similar symptoms with yellow urates in the droppings but I can't find an explanation on any threads. My girl laid yesterday and came out of the run this morning with a dropped tail, waddling, and immediately...
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    I already posted but have just figured out which of my hens is CROWING....my Black Australorp has decided to try her hand at crowing and it's a terrible sound - somewhere between a car horn and a broken squeaky toy. I told her there's no roosters allowed but she seems to think its her job now...
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    I wish my Salmon Faverolles would stop letting the others pull out her feathers. She's got a Friar Tuck look going on... and she's never grown her beard in.
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    Sudden Chicken Death

    In case anyone was watching this thread for updates; the necropsy results revealed that my Margie died of a liver hemorrhage consistent with hemorrhagic liver syndrome (fatty liver hemorrhagic syndrome). I did a little reading and am wondering if it's possible for a hen who is not overweight...
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    Sudden Chicken Death

    My husband called me at work today saying one of my birds (~2.5 y/o Rhode island Red) was laying on the run floor with her face on the ground, mouth open, very floppy. He picked her up and she startled a little bit and she pooped on him, it was very watery. He said her neck was not supporting...
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    Any Gamers Here?

    Fun! I love my Nintendo DS Lite, I still pick it up from time to time to play Pokemon Black and the Phoenix Wright or Professor Layton series.
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    Any Gamers Here?

    My hubby recently built me a gaming PC using an old tower from the 90s. Such nostalgia even though I'm playing mostly Baldur's Gate 3, which is hard but very engrossing. I can't put it down even when my characters get TPK'd multiple times a session LOL We do have a bunch of Nintendo 64 games on...
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    Any other hobby entomologists here?

    We kept stick bugs and Madagascar Hissing roaches as pets when we were kids, we also had the odd scorpion and praying mantis. No bugs as pets currently but I am always on the lookout for my "garden friends" mostly jumping spiders and mantids. We get a lot of butterflies and big jade beetles and...
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