My beautiful 5 yr old Rhode Island Red, Ginger, is having breathing issues from what I feel is an upper respiratory fungal issue. She is my one psycho chicken who hates being handled. I took her to the vet last Tuesday - where she almost died due to the stress of the visit - she actually...
i have a flock of 5 hens and 2 roosters. After 2 wonderful years without losing one - I found out yesterday my Easter
Egger, Grumpy, will probably not survive the weekend. I brought her to the vet with what I thought was a crop
issue - only to find, via X-ray, she has a hard blockage in her...
I have a 4 year old Production Red - a rescue bird that becomes a house chicken every year due to her bad molts. Honestly, she will come in as soon as she starts to feel poorly, a month or so later, she voluntarily returns to the coop - all feathers gorgeous and thick, and starts throwing her...
I was wondering if other flock owners have experienced this. I have a 3 1/2 year old Phoenix Bantam Rooster (as seen in my avatar). Originally called Roadrunner, because that's what he looked like as a juvenile, we renamed him Braveheart, after he fought off a baby hawk. He is the only bird...
Hello Everyone - My husband went out antiquing the other day and brought home a buff Orpington! We always wanted a golden/yellow colored hen to add to our multicolored flock! We have her inside and plan to slowly integrate her after we make sure she is healthy. She is eating everything - but...
I finally got the fecal sample report back - but my avian vet is off today and the on-call is not an Avian vet and cannot, legally, read it for me. They forwarded it to me, however. Can anyone tell me what this means:
2/21/2019 L 9 Microbiology results from IDEXX Reference
Laboratory...
I have a sick bantam chicken not responding to Clavamox after taking it 1 week. I think she has only about 2 days left - I need to take drastic action. My vet prescribed the clavamox for 2 weeks - she said it is illegal to give Baytril to chickens - BUT..I have a full bottle of Baytril 10%...
I have a 3 yr old bantam hen who laid eggs like crazy for the first year, then suddenly stopped - she had no illness so I just accepted it. Last July she started acting lethargic, had diarrhea, was standing away from flock but still ate and drank. I posted about her treatment/recovery at the...
My 2 yr old Phoenix bantam, Beanie, has always been my most active hen. She has not been herself for 5 days now. She had yellow runny poop - I treated the whole flock with Corid for 6 days - it usually does the trick. (We also had a heat wave - they were drinking water, eating a lot of...
I had 2 hens with yellow runny poop last week-my bantam was lethargic-the other, Gigi, was still very active. I gave them lukewarm baths (to clean the vent area), dosed the flock water with Corid - which has always worked great - and lightly sprayed them with permethrin (noticed a few mites on...
My 2 yr old bantam hen, Beanie, is sick. My flock free-ranges - She started staying apart from the flock 3 days ago. She and one other hen had a poopy butt with yellow/green matted feathers under their vents. I attributed that to the very hot weather and all the water/watermelon they were...
My favorite hen Gigi (production red) did not come out of the coop this morning. When I went in she was in her box, eating a broken egg underneath her. I took the egg and straw out, went back in to inspect her. She had a huge crusty ball near her vent - made of poop, egg whatever. I brought...
I own a black sexlink, just over 1 1/2 yrs old, who was adopted from an overcrowded egg farm. Before taking her, I thoroughly checked her over....eyes/nose were clear, no mites, she had a big wart on one leg and black spots on the bottom of her feet. The former owner told me those were normal...
I had 5 hens laying semi-regularly until mid May, they stopped during a horrible heat wave followed by 6 straight days of rain. During this time one laid a lash egg - she no longer lays. That leaves 4 hens that can lay. Two weeks ago, I got 2 eggs a day for about 5 days - there was another...
Wow - it's been a tough month. Four weeks ago, I had a hen with a big swollen eye - we put regular original visine in it and kept her clean - it went away in 3 days. THEN...10 days ago my rescue hen (that we had nursed back to good health) got attacked by a dog- she is still recovering -...
Last Friday 2 loose dogs (11 month old puppies) came bounding into my yard and started terrorizing my free-range chickens. My husband tried to grab one, while I tried to grab the other - by the time we chased them off, I had 2 injured chickens. One was lightly bitten on the butt - we quickly...
On April 20, we adopted an Easter Egger hen we call Grumpy. She free ranges in my yard with my rooster and 6 other hens. Her light green eggs always have a bumpy surface, otherwise they are delicious. 10 days ago she and 5 of my hens stopped laying - I figured it was the weather, temps were...
Former owner told us they were about 1 yr old - they were hens - and they haven't layed eggs in a long time (maybe because they were cramped in an unsanitary coop with no sun and only scratch grain to eat - but, hey, don't get me started on that!) We don't know the breeds - I am hoping they...
My husband just rescued 2 skinny small hens from a farm where the chickens are squashed and don't have enough room and space to keep them busy. Being my husband - he took skanky looking ones - including
one that has no butt feathers - the others were pecking it. I have attached a photo of...
I posted Monday stating my best layer, Ginger, was sick after being the healthiest and most active of my chickens. She went from running in the yard at 2pm, to being lethargic at 4pm, to being dead at 8pm. I had a vet appt the next morning but she didn't make it. I am now down to 2 roosters...