When I first got them they were all sick, I discovered the next morning. I medicated them with baytril and after a couple of weeks I separated the ones that still were wheezing and left the others in the hen house that seemed well. One by one I had to put one from the hen house into the pen...
Well, that sounds encouraging. I've tried so hard to make them healthy again. They are on no medication now and have not been for about 3 months. We are using the eggs, but each time I break an egg in the skillet I can't help but wonder if it's okay to eat it with them wheezing, diarreah...
Some of them seem to be healthy, but the vet told me they have a virus that, even if other hens do not show symptoms, they have it and will be a carrier so if I put other birds with them, those birds will get the virus as well.
I purchased 25 hens that were about 1 year or less. They are constantly sick, rattling in their chest, running bubbly sinuses, diarrhea in some, worms in poop that I have seen only 1 time. They had lice when I bought them, too. I've given them batril for the rattling in the chest and bubbly...