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Our Japanese bantam hen returned today from wherever she hid her nest - with two new chicks. We've been fighting a war on sticktight fleas, and since this hen has been away for the last few weeks, she hasn't received any treatment. Her head is literally covered with fleas. Using a small, soft...

So this is where scrambled eggs come from!

[/IMG] This kitty litter bucket nest box sits on top of a row of clean, roomy EMPTY nest boxes. My husband put the bucket out when we got some bantams, thinking the small hens would prefer a smaller nest box. The bantams never even looked at it (they choose to lay in the waste paper basket.)...

My flock got their second dose of Safegaurd 10 weeks ago, so when egg production dropped off, and then one of my best hens started losing weight and became lethargic, I didn't think to check for worms. Then last night when I checked the failing hen, I could see she had passed large roundworms...

Chickens hide their illnesses, and once they appear sick can go down very quickly. Without having a fecal exam done it can't be certain that worms are the culprit, but it's a good place to start. Especially with diarrhea as a symptom.

Have they been wormed?

Ameraucana. They are just the sweetest birds!

Sounds like my hen when she had sour crop. With my husband's help I held her with her head downward and stroked upwards on her crop to get her to vomit the fluid. (Very carefully to make sure she didn't aspirate any fluid, and with very frequent breaks to allow her to breathe.) When her crop was...

Great news all around - on the cocci and the eggs!

We've seen the little ones shed some pretty impressive intestinal lining! :) If you have a vet check, please post the results.

Just my two cents - that looks like intestinal lining. Our chicks are the same age as yours, and we're are seeing some of the same sort of poops. I had my intro to cocci last year when I decoded to rescue some chicks being kept in deplorable conditions at the feed store. (bad, bad idea!) After...

My birds do the same. I did some research when I found the first overnight poop with coral urates and learned it's normal.

That's fascinating! I had no idea. Makes me wonder why he sees the one hen like that - he's had the same attitude towards her since she was a year old, and she's always been one of my best layers.