Yes about 2 weeks ago.
I don’t actually know how old she is. Could it be that the pellets that she has are not for her age?
I’ve seen that she struggles to eat them and the sunflower seeds. They go all over the place. When I give her soft oats she eats the whole bowl.
I have had a young araucana for around 6weeks now. When I received her she had now back feathers, scaly leg mites and lice. The man that owned her was a hoarder and the chicken coop looked like it had never been cleaned and burnt my eyes!
She has also had diarrhea all this time and I have been...
Thank you. I’ll look into it all. Two seem to have the scaly leg mites but I’ve been treating them with a mix of permethrin spray, epsom salt baths and Vaseline on the legs and it seems to be working. One of them has shedded most of the ugly scales and has shiny new ones.
🤣 yeah that sounds about right. Yeah you can’t get any medicine without actually paying for a consultation which costs like 700dkk
i will have a look for those items. My mum is coming over to visit soon so I have told her to bring some lice powder from the UK.
Thank you. I checked her this morning and it wasn’t full or hard. Checked tonight and it large and soft. Her poop looked more formed today but still some water and grass. I’ll keep an eye on it over the next few days.
🤣 yeah that sounds about right. Yeah you can’t get any medicine without actually paying for a consultation which costs like 700dkk, so it gets expensive fast when you then also have to pay for the medicine or treatment on top. You can’t even buy worming treatment without going to the vets.
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My Easter egger hen is around 24-30 weeks old and started laying for the first time around a week ago. About 4 days ago she started with diarrhea. Today it was watery with undigested grass in it.
She was in bad condition when I got her around 5 weeks ago. She was very pale and had no feathers...
Hello, I’m an expat living in Denmark. I have had chickens for just over a year now and a few weeks ago increased my flock from 3 to 7. I’m looking forward to learning lots from you all.