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She is only eating and drinking when the others are out in the run or when I'm there to make sure she doesn't get attacked. She can walk. Weight loss yes, gross/very stinky poop. Crop is fine - honestly I don't think she eats enough for it to warrant a huge emptying

We have 26 chickens total currently. Our chicken run is 16'x40' and the coop is 14'x20'. She used to be social, but she is picked on constantly and always hides and sleeps in the box all day/night unless I come out there to protect her so she can eat/drink.

Hi, We have a 3.5 year old Isa Brown who has slowed down and lost weight. She is bullied and spends most of her time in the nesting box. We did section off a little spot for her in our chicken run but we decided we should just get her her own space where she won't be afraid to leave the box...

I believe all of our new babies from last summer started laying over the fall

I have an update. I attached pics of her poop from in the nesting box. She spent most of the day in the boxes today... but I found this really tiny egg (pic attached and egg next to a regular egg for size comparisons) in one of the boxes. Do you think it could've been hers?

Okay thank you!

Her tail feathers are mostly up during the day. I don't really think she's swollen. She's definitely lost some weight overall, i'm not sure if it's just the breast area. I cleaned their poop already today so maybe i can tomorrow but it's runny and yucky. Should i make her a scrambled egg? Maybe...

Well she has been slowing down for a long time and we've been preparing ourselves for awhile but she is a tough chickie. I hope she'll be okay but we've been blessed to have her for 3.5 years. One other from her batch passed from egg yolk peritonitis in 2022 so i know they don't live too long

Her vent has been dirty for awhile but it's been cold so we haven't cleaned it up. We can try a CaCO3 tablet. How could she be egg bound if she hasn't laid since like last spring? Can they have a tablet even if she isn't egg bound?

No not swollen (at least as of late/rn, don't want to jinx it), diet is calcium Purina crumbles with grit in them, scratch, bugs once a day for everyone and occasional scrambled eggs and spinach when it's on sale at the store

Hi everyone, This isn't really an emergency but I didn't know where else to ask this. We have a going-on-4 year old Isa Brown (we did not realize how many reproductive issues the Isas had when we originally bought them, but I guess they tend to have a lower life span). She is really slowing...

Most of ours are molting right now, our older one is not so that’s weird as it’s opposite from your experience. Ours I’d say spends her day 50/50 scavenging and sleeping. Maybe more sleeping, 60/40? She has always LOVED food so she’s always out. The last few days I’ve been taking her inside...

Thank you! They both were Americaunos. Liberty died in the spring and Justice died sometime last year (yes, Liberty and Justice). We also have a chicken with a respiratory infection who seems to be getting better but passed it to a younger chicken. We don’t really have the money to get a vet...

Oh, I’m so sorry for your loss. Our hens feel like part of our family and I’m sure yours do too. I don’t want her to suffer at the end and a minute feels like an eternity. Maybe it’s not. Do you think the younger bird played a role? We have had 2 pass away from heart attacks as well but they...

There wasn’t a lot of info on the webs about this, mostly about sudden chicken death syndrome. We have an Isa Brown (3.5 years old) who has been on and off low activity, but today was probably her worst day. It got cold this week (~20 degrees) and windy so that’s probably not helping matters...

Also not sure if this helps but when she breathes it sounds like when we gargle salt water in our throats for sore throats.

Last night we checked her while roosting and she had a panic attack so we let her go before she gave herself a heart attack. Do respiratory infections heal on their own?

Crop seems okay. Got home and she still has the rales, the loudness of them is on and off. She occasionally stretches her neck upward, to maybe get more air? I also heard her sneeze a few times but she hasn’t done it since I originally heard her. With the sneezing I’m almost positive it’s...

not much of an update - I have to get a second person to help me catch her so I can feel her crop. She's as fast as a regular flighty hen, which isn't really what I anticipated. She has gasped a couple times and it sounds like there's mucus in her airway to me but I have to grab her crop to...