Thanks Seminole. She was well over a year and on medicated feed.
She passed away sometime last night. Very sad, but now comes the watching of the rest of the hens....Ugh. I'm crossing everything that it wasn't contagious. But now every comb looks pinker and every chicken looks lazy through my...
There's no way for me to quarantine. Though this isn't a mistake I'll make again in the future.
I did some more research and I'm wondering if the mites somehow made it into her respiratory system [I was reading that this happens sometimes]
I gave her another dose of penicillin and this time...
A friend of mine moved into a condo and asked me to take her 4 hens into my flock. We're pretty close and I know that her coops are just as clean as mine are [and her birds are as well cared for and loved as much as mine as well]
I took hers in and checked them out, all seemed to be in good...