About 3 weeks ago, I found my top hen, a 5-year-old RR, unable to roost, hiding in the corner and acts lame or balance issue. But nothing was found for broken bones or foot problems, nor does she seem to favor a particular leg. I brought her in the house in a pen and she has a great appetite...
I noticed my young roo's scales seem hard and a bit raised. All I could find was horrific advanced stages of of scale mites and am worried this is early stage and would like to treat before it gets bad. Maybe this is normal? None of my other hens' scales look like this, or is this a roo thing?
July, found Hen crawling with maggots in a hole under her vent the size of racket ball.
Soaked her in warm epsom salt 20 min intervals until no maggots were seen.
Isolated her from other chickens in the house where no flies could lay more eggs on her.
Picture below Day 1 after soaking and drying...
1st photo is day one after soaking and drying it out.
2nd photo is day 3 after putting triple antibiotic on it.
I recently discovered one of my hens with a huge hole under her vet with flystike.
I soaked her 20 min to get the maggots out in epsom salt, gently rubbed with wash cloth, dumped pan...