After handling my chickens, I found tiny bugs crawling on me. I checked my girls and found the same bugs crawling around on the skin and into the feather follicle. Her is a picture of my hen's feather base. .. I was able to capture a bug and look at it under a...
I had a chick with what seems to be the same problem. He had a pasted vent and would strain with his eyes half closed whenever he was about to poop until he was about a month old. I put him off by himself, and he slowly got better.
I would put her off by herself, keep her vent clean, and try...
She's closing her eyes about halfway, her crop feels empty, and she has a little bit of white stuff in her poop. Also, she has been drinking a lot of water lately.
Yesterday, I isolated one of my hens because she was sitting in the coop with ruffled feathers. Now that I can keep a closer eye on her, I've noticed that she isn't eating and if I stick my ear close to her mouth, she sounds like a dog panting. Her poop is mostly liquid with hardly anything...