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She is about two and a half years old and has always laid every other day. She laid on Saturday and Sunday but nothing yesterday. One of our other chickens died last Friday night after having a swollen abdomen, laboured breathing and poop that looked like cottage cheese or korma. Hopefully the...

It is strange I agree! She was strutting her stuff clucking making sure I went out to look and that is what I found, she was very proud. I wonder if she has been a little poorly the last few days because of this and is now feeling better, she even went to bed early last night.

For the last few days one of our chickens has been very quiet. This morning she laid an egg, however there was no shell and it just looked like cooked yolk twisted around. Is this something to worry about? she seems a little more like her normal self today .

Just wondering if Japanese knotweed is poisonous to chickens? We're thinking of moving the run to an area which suffers from it but can't find anything on the internet about it.

Sadly she died during the night on thurday. She was very thin and finally managed to sit down and relax once we got her warm. Poor Chicken

She in now in our bathroom in an open fronted box covered with hay. She will drink a litle if you hold water up to her mouth. She will also eat 1 mixed grain or a tiny bit of grape or strawberry but will not touch layers pellets. We gave her a warm bath and rubbed her abdomon as suggested and...

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She is the only one who is sick, the others are perfect! Her poop is watery, yellow, greyish, black. No visable injuries. But her feathers are no longer silky, very rough on head. She has a very small comb which seems greyish pink.

:(In June our chicken stopped laying. Now in October she is huddled up, lathargic, for the last 2 nights she hasn't been able to get in coop. This morning she won't eat or drink. She is very unsteady on her feet. I've mite powdered her, wormed her, given her poultry spice in mash (which she...

Thank you , I'll do it in the morning. They all went to bed an hour and a half ago and don't like being disturbed. She was only mite powdered 2 weeks ago. She looks so unhappy. Apparently today one of the other chickens knocked her over and she had to be picked up to get her back on her feet...

She now doesn't even have the energy to jump into coop at night! Her feathers feel rough and she doesn't seem to be able to hold her wings up.

I had a look round her vent this afternoon and it looked clean and clear. She often sits in the nesting boxes at night so has poop underneath but not near vent. I'm not sure what I need to look for?

We bought 2 chickens at the end of May (apparently 20 wks old). One laid for the first 2 weeks, then when the weather became really hot she stopped laying and began the moult (I think, lots and lots of feathers found each day). It's now October and she hasn't started laying again, she eats and...

One of my hens sneezes and has done since we got her (about 10 weeks or more ago) and she eats, lays, bullies and is the first to see a worm. BUT she was my first hen so no experience. Good luck:)

She looks like a plymouth rock but pprobly a mixture. When we try to approach her she tries to move away and is easily distressed. She is very fluffy but don't notice difference when we appear. She seems to have runny poo, chocolate brown, except at night I am sure it has yellow lumps in it! She...