Hello experts!
My silkie lost all her black/purple pigment following a bacterial infection.
Beginning December 2013, over a period of weeks, three of our hens developed bacterial infections. It hit one, then a week or so later another then another. Only one survived. Goldie...I was going...
Hi Wayne & Kim,
Thank you so much for your response.
I wormed her Nov. 26th with Wazine.
The pullet is in the 'hospital' on our back porch....85 degrees yesterday. Cooler the next few days (cool for Florida). I will bring her in to keep her warm.
Her crop was not empty yesterday...
Pullet is squirting out her poo every time is see her go. She has done this consistently for about a week. This is a photo.
She is one of two Buff Orpingtons we bought as chicks in October. She has always been the smaller of the two.
She is lethargic today and holding her tail down when...
Hi Eggcessive,
Thank you for the links....Invaluable! .
The poop in the first photo looks like either malnutrition and too much water or Clostridium perfringens.
I truly hope I am not dealing with egg yolk peritonitis (photo 2)
I switched my girls to organic layer feed two months ago...
Hello poultry experts! Please help me help my girls!
Please look at my photos and tell me what you think.
Photo #1 One pullet (5 months old) has had this for a few days...then today one of my older bantams (1-1/2 yrs) produced poo in photo #2.
#1 Pullet is acts fine.
#2 Older hen is...
Our five hens are happier without our roo. Our older hen has started to lay eggs again! We had four eggs today...Up from two to three a day.
Just curious....Are hens happier without a roo???
Update: No change...We separated Drumstick from the hens for 3 days. Once back with the hens Drumstick attacked Millie and ran her off from the other hens . He is back in his separate living quarters .... We will re-home our roo this weekend.
Because Mille appears to be perfectly healthy I decided to put Millie back in the coop after dark and removed our roo.
Will keep our roo separate for a few days and see what happens.
I just put all the chickens, except Millie, into the coop for the night. Millie is in our 'hospital' cage. She seems fine. She ate her treats and jumped right into the nesting box. We will try this for a few days to make sure she is not sick.
I am afraid Jack could be right...Our roo may...
Millie is my best layer. She laid an egg yesterday afternoon, is eating normally and seems fine other than being frazzled and lost because of the rooster. Of the 5 hens 3 are Bantams and one is a Silkie....Very docile gals. Because Millie is a millie fleur D'Uccle she does not look like the...