sedaclaire
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- Jan 13, 2023
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Hello all!
Our 8-year-old Easter Egger (who stopped laying a few years ago) has had light sage green & white diarrhea dripping down her backside for two days. She also opens her beak with every breath, so clearly some respiratory distress. Her tail is down. However, she is eating well and drinking a lot, still walking around with the rest of the flock, energy seems fine. Her comb is nice and bright red, and she recently grew in her new feathers after a heavy molt so her feathers look fabulous. The rest of the flock is fine, healthy. It's very, very, very wet here in California and they haven't had much time outside of the protected area of their run. They have a dry place to sleep and we just changed the straw there yesterday but it was definitely kind of poopy in there, and I know she sleeps on the floor because she's too old to get on the roost, so I worry she caught something because of the weather and cleanliness. We have not done any treatment. It's going to be raining for another 3 days at least.
Considering her age, if this is clearly some type of bacterial infection, it seems like I should treat her early before she stops eating/drinking/gets listless -- what do others think?
Our 8-year-old Easter Egger (who stopped laying a few years ago) has had light sage green & white diarrhea dripping down her backside for two days. She also opens her beak with every breath, so clearly some respiratory distress. Her tail is down. However, she is eating well and drinking a lot, still walking around with the rest of the flock, energy seems fine. Her comb is nice and bright red, and she recently grew in her new feathers after a heavy molt so her feathers look fabulous. The rest of the flock is fine, healthy. It's very, very, very wet here in California and they haven't had much time outside of the protected area of their run. They have a dry place to sleep and we just changed the straw there yesterday but it was definitely kind of poopy in there, and I know she sleeps on the floor because she's too old to get on the roost, so I worry she caught something because of the weather and cleanliness. We have not done any treatment. It's going to be raining for another 3 days at least.
Considering her age, if this is clearly some type of bacterial infection, it seems like I should treat her early before she stops eating/drinking/gets listless -- what do others think?