Recent content by Fishsticks06

Bumping to update on her situation: she’s dead. What she had was quick, she showed symptoms for 3 days before abruptly just passing. Didn’t seem worse this morning when I let her out, but I came home and she was dead. It’s been hours because her body is stiff and cold. Whatever it was I hope it...

I got SMZ from my vet which is what they had/recommended. I used it in the past to treat egg yolk peritonitis(?), and it worked very well. .5 mL a day for 7 days. I’m doing the same thing now, but it doesn’t seem to be doing much. She’s still drinking, haven’t seen her eat though. I was thinking...

Going to bump my previous post, she’s definitely on a fast decline. She’s hardly active now and wants to sleep in a corner. Enough strength to move in and out of the coop though. I can’t get her to drink or eat often but I’ve seen her do it. I’ve gotten some SMZ into her yesterday which is a...

She’s probably 5-6 lbs if I had to guess. I don’t know if her eggs have been thin shelled, but I do know some eggs break often, but I’ve attributed that to the hens fighting around the nesting boxes. When I collect multiple times a day to avoid broken eggs (when I can), they’re all hard-shelled...

Crop was emptied, it’s not a crop issue. I put her by herself just so she can relax and eat without any competition. She slept in a nesting box last night, she never does that. Is there a general poultry antibiotic I could give her? I’m certain it’s bacterial.

Hey all, I have a hen who’s pretty lethargic. Noticed it yesterday. She’s sitting around a little during the day which is unlike her , comb is drooping, and she has a pasty green-yellow fecal discharge. She’s also sleeping on the coop floor tonight which is very peculiar for her. Besides that...

Hello, I have a five year old Dominique hen who’s having trouble walking. She stumbles around and can’t put weight on the leg well. Her toes are also curled slightly inward. It started around yesterday when she got out of her area and with some of the roosters (I keep her physically separated...

Hey all, I have a 5 year old Dominique hen who’s became a recluse. She almost never comes out of the coop by herself, she just sits in there all day and I don’t know what to do about it. She looks healthy, eats and drinks normally when I bring her out, and doesn’t act sick in any way. The only...

Could I possibly cross a blue splash ameraucana and a blue splash maran and get blue splash olive eggers?

Hey all, I want to start selling hatching eggs online (Ebay, etc..) just as a side profit to pay for my chickens. Problem is, I don’t know what would sell well. I’m looking to get around half a dozen new birds for breeding, either a hybrid or a purebred lineage. I have ideas of starting a...

I forgot to say this, but there is no possible way she was attacked or anything besides her flock mates or one of my two roosters, but she’s my biggest hen and they hardly mess with her.

Alright. I know there’s nothing I can do if it’s Mareks, and I don’t know if the previous owner had them vaccinated so it’s always a possibility. I’ll try everything listed and get back to you if her condition better or worsens.

Hey; sorry for the delayed response. Been busy with family. She isn’t pooping much (this is the only i could find). All of this happened overnight. I woke up one morning and she was laying on the coop floor and wasn’t able to get up. She can move around a little bit but she can’t pivot. I find...

I cleaned the dirty out of her nose after this photo; her nostrils aren’t clogged or runny, she’s just been falling on her face a lot.

I don’t know her breed, she’s just a large white chicken. I saved her from an overcrowding incident a year ago. I feed standard layer pellets and give them grains occasionally, and they have access to outside grass all day so I don’t know everything she eats outside but I assure you she isn’t...