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LER23
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A picture of the poop would help. What do you feed them? Do any other of your chickens have similar symptoms?
Do you worm your flock? Could it be coccidiosis? Do you keep them on the same ground and has it been warm & wet recently?
I'm pretty sure she's not getting bullied. She may not be the alpha, but as a group. They all bully this one little Chicken. And that seems to be developmentally disabled. I've been watching her pretty close for the last 24 hours and I can't tell if she's lethared or not. Because she does tend to sort of wander away from the other chickens more than some of them do. I also can't tell if she still has diarrhea because i'm not seeing any unusual poop anywhere in the yard. I haven't seen an egg from her today but the day is still young where I am. She was cursing for me this morning so I picked her up. And I checked for mites and I didn't see any. I only checked on her back though. So if there's someplace else that's a better place to look I'd love to know. Her crop seems fine and I don't know enough about chickens to know what her abdomen should feel like. 2 things that were suggested to me that I have not done yet. Are 2 clean her vent area. That's all mattered with the running poop with warm water and Epsom salts and two feature a probiotic like a plain yogurt. I'm not sure how to give her the yogurt. I'm gonna research that. I'm also gonna call my vet and see if I can get some type of a deworming medication for all of my chickens.She might be getting bullied away from the food and not eating enough.
I think there are various home remedies to help prevent worms but to actually deworm your flock I would recommend using medication.