My 3 year old olive egger hen is opening her mouth when she’s breathing. There is no rattle. It almost sounds like a click when she’s breathing. I can’t attach a video to show what she’s doing. But when she breathes it looks like this. She hasn’t laid in about 10 days. Her comb is red. I can...
I have been fighting double bumblefoot in this 3 year old polish. One is healed the other is been a battle. I gave her a dose of antibiotic last night after soaking her and today her lungs are rattling. I’m not sure if she aspirated the meds or what. She sounds horrible. It came out of nowhere...
My hen is having a bumble removed as we speak at the vet. I fear separating her as she’s a polish and it’s taken a long time for her to find her way with the older hens. I’m very hesitant to do so….many don’t separate so I’m curious on what you’d think of that.
I have a 3 year old polish hen while treating my flock for lice found she has bumblefoot. I have been soaking, wrapping all the things to no avail. It also stresses her to the point I feel its contributing her not healing. The swelling in mostly on the top between her toes. She can walk and is...
My one year old EE hen maybe weekly and bi weekly lays these HUGE double yolk eggs. Tonight she was majorly stressed and I thought it was the heat as it went from 40 to 80 In SW Idaho in 5 minutes. I was worried. 30 minutes later she comes out of the coop and I find this. I’ve been told within...
My 1 year old Easter egger hen laid this today. I will say it’s maybe her 4th one in the year I’ve had her. She’s the one in the front of the pic. Should I be concerned? She is a bigger hen…bigger than all of mine and in the 6 years I’ve had chickens I had one barred rock lay one like this one...
I’m having this issue now. I’ve never had an injured hen but I have an older hen that sometimes jumps on the other chickens and I’m assuming this is why mine is hurt. She’s eating drinking but walking slowly…and the other hens notice. She is already at the bottom of the pecking order and this...
No new hens at all. No vaccinations. There has been a stray cat near my coop at night but they’re secure but my run is open. She was absolutely fine hours prior…and yes yay only went after her because she sat down. They know something is wrong. I will set her up in a dog kennel in the garage in...
I have an approx one year old EE hen who was absolutely fine at noon today. Checked the nesting box and noticed she laid an egg. I didn’t see her in the run. I found her in the coop sitting in the corner alone. She doesn’t ever do that. She is quite an anxious hen and pretty much at the bottom...