Thanks for the response. I dewormed her last night out of precaution. Shes not really eating so crop is empty in the morning. I'll give her some calcium and see if that helps.
Hi there,
I had a lethargic chicken in the run this morning. We put her in isolation and offered electrolytes. We did an exam and noticed her abdomen was very squishly. I was worried it was water belly (she is 3 years old), but I wanted to rule out that she was egg bound. We did a gentle...
The chicks have already hatched and will be just over a week old so too late for vaccinations at this point. All my other chickens are perfectly healthy right now, happily free-ranging and enjoying the sun. We are not sure where it came from - the two that died came from the same batch of chicks...
I hadn't thought of hatching our own. I'll have a look and see if I can cancel. It's so upsetting. This is only our third year chicken keeping, and we were excited to be adding some new chicks this year.
After losing two chickens (aged 6 and 10 months) to large neck tumours, we have just confirmed that they died from Mareks. So our whole flock (10 hens, 1 roo) are exposed and now carriers. Unfortunately, and thanks to terrible timing, we are about to pick up our new week-old chicks from a...
Hens go broody when you don’t want them to… and won’t go broody when you do.