Got home this evening and saw that she has made HUGE improvements! She was standing up in the kennel, her piece of watermelon gone and water drank (but maybe it spilled), ready to get out. When my hubby opened the door she shot out and joined the other girls... tail is still droopy, but I didn't...
No improvement this morning... poo looks completely white now. Droopy tail and she's hanging her head and closing her eyes. The other girls are doing fabulous... I can't see a change in them. Eating, talking, pecking, scratching, following me around. They were in a hen house at my grandpa's...
Went to the feed store and got some powder to treat for mites. Also got some vitamin/electrolyte stuff to put in the water. She hasn't ate/drank all day... has stopped pooping as well. Had to feed her some of the water with a medicine dropper. Keeps tilting her head to the side/laying her head...
I have her isolated... she is barely moving... laying down and closing her eyes... not talking... not eating or drinking. When I've looked at her poop, she has liquid green stuck to her feathers, but what I've seen coming out is runny and white. Just kinda squirting out periodically. I can't...
Ok, so I just asked my hubby, and he said there is bright green diarrhea poop stuck to her feathers... I am off to get a kennel from my brother-in-law and see if I can get her in there.
We just received 6 hens about a week and a half ago from my grandpa. We don't know too much about chickens yet, so I'm not quite sure what is wrong with her... Last night my husband went to close up the coop, and noticed her sitting/laying on the ground and not up on the roost. This morning when...
My hubby built the coop with a plywood flooring... (the coop will be elevated somewhat) and I am wondering if I have to have some type of covering over top of the plywood before we lay down our pine shavings. Also, with the DL method, since we don't have a dirt floor to help the composting of...