She may be dehydrated — she drinks water when she’s initially given it, but she doesn’t drink much. Same with food — she will ravenously eat it at first, but a couple hours later I notice she didn’t eat much in total.
I checked her crop first thing this morning. She’s in a bath tub and had...
Yes, a big roo— a light Brahma
I’m thinking about trying a dewormer, even though her newest poop doesn’t have any worms or maggots. It does have a lot of the white sticky urine cap, though. Should I deworm the whole flock? It’s 9 chickens total
I’ll keep checking her crop too.
Thanks!
Hi! Thanks for your questions — I should have included most of this . I’ll try to answer them. I adopted these chickens from a neighbor who had to move suddenly in march.
—she is between 1 - 2 years old. My neighbor started her flocks as chicks in summer 2020, and she was not part of original...
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My copper marans hen has been off for about 2 weeks (maybe a little longer). Here are her symptoms:
- VERY thin
- Unable to use ramp to enter and exit raised coop and to hop up into things over a couple inches off the ground
- Loses balance and sticks a wing out, but rarely flaps...