My hen has been molting and stopped laying about two months ago when it started getting cold, still molting 2 months later. Her butt is filthy, she keeps flexing her vent constantly, but not like she's trying to lay.
She has red bumps on the top of her vent but no discharge and doesn't smell...
Will it hurt to get poultry dush in the inside of the vent, first 1/2'' or so?
I feel like I have to dust her vent directly to deal with bugs around it, but worried it will get inside of her.
http://www.amazon.com/Steamfast-SF-407-Fabric-Steamer/dp/B000BQRD0I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8
Some of us have a fabrick steamer laying around. Move out the chickens and steam the bedding, walls, roof, roosting bar.
Will kill a lot of parasites, and bacteria for a cleaner environment.
I don't think these are the typical mites we are used to seeing, they are almost impossible to see with the naked eye; but if you look closely at my chickens skin it just seemed to move; which is red and irritated, she's also anemic. Looking closely in an area 2 inches by 2 inches I could see...
My chicken has high white blood cell count and anemia, she was prescribed Zosyn Injections twice a day.
She normally comes to me, but now she runs when I pick her up, she thinks she's getting a shot.
We moved her to a new coop this morning that is much bigger, with a nice roost.
This...
I dewormed her by squirting liquid on bread, now she won't eat bread so that trick no longer works with the antibiotics; she won't take it without spitting it out.
I tried putting it on cat food, wasted some and she wouldn't eat it.
any ideas?
When I picked her up to take these pictures, she started dripping white foam out of her mouth. It is 90 something degrees outside, and she just got done chugging water, that might be why.
I see no sores on her body. She was born the week before Easter.
She came up on the porch to visit me, and left me a gift on the porch. I started to wash it off and stopped so I could post a picture of these:
Now these look like Maggots, and this poop was only 30 seconds old. Is it likely that these passed through her completely undigested, or are...