It was a healing wound on her butt, it had a scap and the hens pecked at it. We put Blu kote on it and she perked at it vigorously and we caught it to late, it poisoned her and she did not die in a pleasant way at all.
Advisory for anyone thinking of using Blu kote, I would not suggest it, it doesn't say on the bottle but it can cause MANY health issues if ingested. One of our hens was doing fine, we decided to use Blu kote on her wound just to help it out a bit. It irritated her skin and before we could catch...
We had a hen a few weeks ago with flystrike, we managed to save her from that, but her wounds wouldn't stop getting pecked at (it was mostly herself who was pecking at it) we put blue kote to try to cover the wound but she kept pecking at it and now her crop feels really stiff, we loosened up...
The first one was around 3 (probably older since she was a rescue) the one we have currently is probably around 2 1/2 . They have not been laying recently and we checked and they arent eggbound. They have not pooped at all.
Our previous bird wich died from this her crop didnt get smaller. And...
So far I have had two chicken who have had these symptoms the first one we ended up thinking was eggbound (she wasnt) and she died the next day. This time we have another hen who is showing the same symptoms. Both ate just fine refused to drink water and wouldnt poop. They were also both fluffed...
Hens go broody when you don’t want them to… and won’t go broody when you do.