Thank you all for the responses. The 2 that died did stop eating and drinking the day before they passed. I also noticed they were hunched over and not active. On the day the last one passed there was bloody poo in the bedding, something I surly could have missed with the first one days...
Had a small flock of 3 Buff Orpingtons about 4 months of age. In the last week I lost 2 to what I now believe was coccidiosis. The 2 that died were the smaller almost younger looking of the 3 ( all 3 from same breeder in Jan of this year) All 3 have been outside in a coop and run since I...
My girls have some sort of a respiratory illness- symptoms-one with a barky type cough and the other with a runny nose and taking breaths with an open mouth from time to time but no noticeable wheezing or rattling. One of my other girls died yesterday- she was the worst off with labored...
Our free range chicken found sitting on 12 eggs! ( long story but she was left by neighbors about 2 years ago and I have always fed her and she slowly has become "ours") She went missing for 3-4 days ( she usually roosts in the tree by my "captive" girls coop which are young and have not started...
I am having the same issues with my Buff Orp's. had 4-2 month olds that started sneezing, weezing and onewith a swollen eye. put all 4 on 10 days of duramycine-10 and petrx (on nostrils) all but one recovered (she was the smallest and worse one) the other 3 have been fine for the past week but...
Hello everyone, Wondering if someone could identify what kind of chicken is visiting my yard lately. Thank you!
She is very pretty...hope this picture is well enough.