Hi All - I have a golden wyandotte who is lethargic, stays off to herself and I can tell is not feeling well. She's lost some weight too after being very over weight.
First background - we let them out to free range every day and their coop is located in a 20 x 40 fenced in run. There are 9...
Hi All - We finally had to put her down. Our girl still wasn't feeling well, the prognisis was poor and we didn't want her to suffer. After tears and much angst we put her down Saturday morning.
It was confirmed by a vet (via x-ray) that she had indeed laid internally. We will post the...
Hi All - quick update. The cause of the sour crop is the fact that she has laid two eggs internally. One normal sized egg and another peanut shaped egg. The vet suggested operating for $400. I cant see spending that at this time. I have heard that giving an internal laying hen oil and...
My apologies for not responding sooner - the buttermilk drench we used was buttermilk applied directly to their normal food in the hopes of providing some good probiotics.
Thank you so much for your reply. It's much appreciated. I will answer your questions below.
We give all our chickens their normal food and then some spinach as a treat in the AM. We also provide them scratch and meal worms each day. She loved to eat the spinach but stayed away from the dry...
3 weeks ago we had a buff who we thought had worms, potentially mites and sour crop all at the same time. We brought Mello Yellow inside and put her in our "hospital". It's a small cardboard box with pine shavings. We withheld both food and water for 12 hours. Her crop was flat but a bit...
My advice is to separate your injured chicken from the flock if she is badly injured with some of her sisters who you know to be non violent. Many times setting the pecking order can be scary for us.
We just combined two sets of birds. We combined 6 new pullets with my 5 adult birds. We...
Many thanks! I have tried eggs in the hospital coop and she loves it. Now that she has eaten and was separated for much of the day she is back to her old self again.
I know she isn't acting ill for attention but I can not find anything wrong with her. I wondered if in her excitement this...