That does sound about right. She’s not “limping” or seizing or shaking. But “scuttling” around, when absolutely necessary, sounds about right. I’ll see if vitamins help.
I read through this FAQ and it does sound like Mareks to me. Of all the other look alike diseases they suggest, I think I can rule out most. It’s possibly a vitamin deficiency since I haven’t had them on any vitamins, but I figured since they were getting both commercial feed and a huge area to...
Reading about both, Mareks sounds a little likelier to me. None of my birds are vaccinated. Luckily, so far, I do t see any symptoms in any of the others.
Hi All,
I have 21 chickens and this is my first year with them (have had them since March), so I don’t have any real experience with chicken diseases yet.
My cream crested legbar hen started acting weird yesterday. She was just lying on the ground in full sun, which was strange since it was mid...
New chicken keeper here.
I have 8 adult hens all about 1.5 years old that I adopted from their previous owner about 2 months ago.
Today, I saw one of my Ameracauna hens (the feistiest and most assertive of all of my hens) hop on top of one of my RIRs (the one who I think is #8 of 8 in the...
Hi everyone -
I came into my coop today to find one of my favorite pullets dead and I am hoping you can help me figure out why.
I had 10 pullets of mixed breed in there, all 4.5 - 5.5 week’s old. I had only just put them in there 3 days ago. Before that, they had been in two separate brooder...
Hi everyone,
I'm brand new to chickens. We got our first day-old chicks 3 weeks ago. And then we got some year-old layers that a neighbor could no longer take care of just a few days later.
So now we have...
Chicks:
(1) Welsummer named Moe
(1) Salmon Faverolle named Martha
(1) GL...
Hi forum - I hope you all can help!
I have four chicks that I got all on the same day. They should have all been day-old chicks, especially because I went to the feed store the same day they received their new delivery of chicks. 3 of the 4 started out the same size, with 1 of the 4 (the gray...
I have new feed now and it is medicated.
Just in case the light bulbs were Teflon coated, I looked for a replacement at the feed store. They had no idea what I was taking about when I brought up Teflon coated bulbs and toxins. They only had one type of infrared bulbs and the box doesn’t say...
Yup. Thanks for the suggestions. These two actually don’t have me worried. I have seen them at the waterer using it. The bricks just make it so that the waterer isn’t down below the level of the pine shavings in the floor of the tub (because shavings kept falling in and getting wet). On the...