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This is not an emergency, but I’m not sure where else to put it. I keep the litter in the run soft so my girls don’t get bumblefoot and can dig in it. However, in the winter months (shorter days), they don’t get out of the run to range as much as I would like and their claws get too long. I’ve...

Bridge is the alpha and will be eight at the end of February. She has never been sick nor injured that I can tell, except for when she tore off the back of her comb when she was young. She has been walking strangely for at least a week now, possibly two. I have not treated her with any vitamins...

This is not an emergency, but I thought it may (or may not), be helpful for some of us down the road. Does anyone else have hens who get slow crops during molt? My Flash has a really slow crop right now. Little Mill also did for a couple days, but hers has cleared up. I think it might be from...

@Eggcessive Kim, I’m tagging you specifically because I believe you are or were a nurse, correct? I understand that veterinary medicine and human medicine are not necessarily the same but I’m hoping you’ll know the answer to this. We have other very experienced people on here and I’d appreciate...

Hi everyone. I just wanted to thank and call out Wyorp Rock for all her help on this thread. For me personally, the best advice I’ve gotten from her is providing buttermilk through molt. I have done that for my birds this year and it seems to have helped. One of my girls last year develop...

My Easter Egger, Sunshine, is my most cuddly chicken. She loves to stick her head in my armpit or underneath her fellow chickens. She’s a sweetheart! I’m afraid she is also unwell. Last night she went to bed early and this morning I found this under the roost. I found a similar one awhile back…...

Here’s a little background info. My Buckeye Minnie is having her first molt. I was out of town for a weekend, so may have missed an injury, but one morning after I returned, she would not come down from the poop board shelf. I brought her a serving of baby bird formula and left her there before...

Hello. My sweet 2-year-old Buckeye, Minnie, is in her first molt and it’s pretty significant. I was out of town for a couple days during thus time and now she is lame. Not sure if it’s molt related, if she injured herself or if Marek’s is rearing its ugly head during molt stress. . I think...

I wasn’t sure where would be the best for them to post this. I’ve already posted about this hen in the past on the emergency forum, as she’s been having issues for a couple years. I have a hen who is very ill. She almost died last week, but has since made a bit of a come back. She’s at the...

Greetings. So my Ruby has been treated with hormones for over two years now. So far, she has responded well to treatment. She has some sort of undefined, hormone-driven disorder that causes ascites. In her case, the ascites is compartmentalized pretty deep. Yesterday the avian vet contacted me...

Hi, everyone. So my less than two-year-old buckeye has been feeling unwell on and off for a couple weeks. Some days she’s droopy and some days she’s perfectly fine. Some days she’s had really watery, milky urates and little solid poop. Other days she’s had some solid poop. At the same time, the...

Lately the flock in general is “off.” I have 13 hens and pullets ages 5 years to 8 months. I have a couple with laying disorders, but that’s not it. The less than 2-year-old hens aren’t laying. Pullets have pale combs. Since it seems sonething might be going around the flock, I wormed them all...

I have two hens on a 10-day course of enrofloxacin (one is Ruby, who we’ve been treating with hormones for over two years now!) I also have three pullets, who are all laying, but seem paler in the combs than the older hens. One also has a slightly droopy tail. I’m wondering if they could have...

Hi. Lately I’ve noticed a goose in the parking lot at work. One morning she was sitting right in the driving lane on the asphalt, but moved when my car crept closer. Today, a colleague alerted me to the fact that she has a nest! She is sitting on eggs on top of a shipping container, panting in...

Hi. Those of you who know me know I’m usually pretty attentive to my chickens. However, there is one area or I’m a bit neglectful, and that is the feet. My Wyandottes both have scaly leg mites pretty significantly. I don’t know if it’s a factor here, but the other day I noticed Roxy had blood...

Hi, folks. Unfortunately, my chickens didn’t get out to free range the last two days. I had a birthday party one day after work and had to help my daughter with something the other day. Today they’re out and about and then the last little bit I have seen all of these bad looking poops. I...

I have 10% enrofloxacin on hand, but have never used it. Is it 100mg/mL? Avian vet enrofloxacin always comes at 227mg/mL.

Greetings. My young barred rock hen is molting very severely. I’ve brought her in the last few nights and kept her out during the day. However, yesterday she started stumbling so I brought her in. I think she’s very dehydrated, and I want to tube her fluids. This would be my very first tubing. I...

I have seen rats around before, but feel my run is secure. I’ve been putting the feed away again every night the last few nights since I saw a rat scurry across the top of the run about a week ago.Well my first ever tomato garden just started ripening (I planted it late, but live in CA, so we...

So this little sweetie was sold as an Ameraucana, but obviously she’s really an Easter Egger, since no color was mentioned and she’s from the feed store. Her saddle feathers are getting pretty curved, but they are round . She’s definitely female, right?