1) 2 Rhode Island Red, 8 months old
2) sitting a lot, not moving very much. Feather picking herself on the abdomen area. No mites.
3) 2-4 days
4) no one else is acting this way at all
5) one has an infection on her foot, and its swollen, does not look to be bumblefoot and the other hen is limping
6) they were locked up in their coop due to -43C weather, they got agitated and there were a couple fights. they have also been fighting over nesting boxes.
7) Been eating layer food, boss and scratch, sometimes scrambled eggs, and fresh water all the time
8) Poop is runny on one and the other semi runny
9) Hen with infection has had her belly and feet soaked in salt water, and scrubbed in salt water until clean, then applied poly and bandaged, her belly is pretty bare. the other hen got a salt water foot soak, no idea how to treat a limping hen, no visible injuries can be seen.
10 ) I am attempting to treat my birds, at home, hoping this will work, they seemed pretty stressed out from being away from the rest of the flock.
11) I have pics will post as soon as I can upload them to the computer.
12) the hens live in a 12X11 in barn-coop plenty of room and they have a covered run for exercise. I use straw for bedding and inside the nests, I clena the coop every week and add fresh straw, they receive clean food and water.
I need help in figuring out what could be the issue with the runny poop. I will post pics real soon, I am still in the middle of treating one hen, the rest of the flock is as usual, blabby and loud and looking for treats....will treating the foot with polysporin with the no pain killer in it be a good way to continue her treatment. her foot is pretty swollen and I could see several cuts no idea how those happened, any help would be appreciated thanks
Ema
her feet are muddy from the run
In the first picture you can see a bit of blood on her right foot right in between the toes, there was some pus coming out so I made sure to scrub it clean before applying poly and bandaging. poop pic coming soon. I should mention that the one with the swollen, infected foot feels rather thin. I Inspected the chickens last weekend after cleaning the coop and she was certainly not like that. then there was a fight her comb was all bloody a couple days later but I never noticed anything else wrong with her cause she was running to get away from me so I wouldn't pick her up.
the one that is limping....as previously stated I see nothing wrong externally but she prefers not to move around, so I am thinking she was having issues getting to the feeder..sigh....
2) sitting a lot, not moving very much. Feather picking herself on the abdomen area. No mites.
3) 2-4 days
4) no one else is acting this way at all
5) one has an infection on her foot, and its swollen, does not look to be bumblefoot and the other hen is limping
6) they were locked up in their coop due to -43C weather, they got agitated and there were a couple fights. they have also been fighting over nesting boxes.
7) Been eating layer food, boss and scratch, sometimes scrambled eggs, and fresh water all the time
8) Poop is runny on one and the other semi runny
9) Hen with infection has had her belly and feet soaked in salt water, and scrubbed in salt water until clean, then applied poly and bandaged, her belly is pretty bare. the other hen got a salt water foot soak, no idea how to treat a limping hen, no visible injuries can be seen.
10 ) I am attempting to treat my birds, at home, hoping this will work, they seemed pretty stressed out from being away from the rest of the flock.
11) I have pics will post as soon as I can upload them to the computer.
12) the hens live in a 12X11 in barn-coop plenty of room and they have a covered run for exercise. I use straw for bedding and inside the nests, I clena the coop every week and add fresh straw, they receive clean food and water.
I need help in figuring out what could be the issue with the runny poop. I will post pics real soon, I am still in the middle of treating one hen, the rest of the flock is as usual, blabby and loud and looking for treats....will treating the foot with polysporin with the no pain killer in it be a good way to continue her treatment. her foot is pretty swollen and I could see several cuts no idea how those happened, any help would be appreciated thanks
Ema
her feet are muddy from the run
In the first picture you can see a bit of blood on her right foot right in between the toes, there was some pus coming out so I made sure to scrub it clean before applying poly and bandaging. poop pic coming soon. I should mention that the one with the swollen, infected foot feels rather thin. I Inspected the chickens last weekend after cleaning the coop and she was certainly not like that. then there was a fight her comb was all bloody a couple days later but I never noticed anything else wrong with her cause she was running to get away from me so I wouldn't pick her up.
the one that is limping....as previously stated I see nothing wrong externally but she prefers not to move around, so I am thinking she was having issues getting to the feeder..sigh....
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