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No additional grains beyond what's in their feed. Would you have a suggestion?

We did not have a gram stain done. The vet I used isn't chicken-centric, either. There are more than a few backyard chicken clusters just in my own neighborhood, but the vet side of things in my area is still stuck on dogs and cats. However, Major Cluster is continuing her recovery. She is...

Vet called with the test results - negative for worms (of various types) and cocci. She's not back to her old self, but she is more alert and active than Day 1/2. She will eat on her own some, but is still tentative in her actions. She had another very green/tightly packed dropping yesterday...

Unfortunately not much in the way of chicken-educated vets in my immediate area. I did take a fecal sample in today to have the local vet run tests, and they gave me the name of a vet that might be able to do something with chickens. Test results in tomorrow. Feed store a couple towns over...

She's always been a light bird, at least (or especially) compared to our Buff Orpington; our BO is probably twice the weight of our Welsummer. But her weight hasn't noticeably changed, though we haven't scaled the birds since they were chicks. As far as I can tell her keel bone doesn't...

Hello everyone, thank you for your replies. We're looking into the cocci angle, but I wanted to update our hen's symptoms. She spent the night inside our house in a box and seemed bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning. She ate happily from a spoon of yogurt, but she did not take any...

Good evening BYC, We have a coop with four hens, each a different breed, all approx. nine months old. Our Welsummer, Major Cluster, has had zero health issues so far. This morning she exited the coop as normal, raised a ruckus as normal, laid her egg for the day, also normal. We let...