Hello guys. Can anyone help me to identify the disease. My chickens are dying one by one within few hours of symptoms. You can see in the pic face is swollen and comb turned blue colour. I am from India and there is no reports of bird flu either.
Today I was surprised to see that my 4 and half month old pullet started to lay eggs. They usually don't lay before 6 months. This never happened before. I didn't even see her mating.
I have 13 in flock and till now 4 died, 5 isolated (showing symptoms) and 3 are freed for now. All have died with 12 -16 hrs of showing symptoms. Symptoms are like watery poop, very weak, fast fast breathing. This has happened so fast that I could not even take any decision. Gave them...
Kuroiler breed are getting very popular in India (developed by Kegg Ferm P Ltd), These birds good for backyard rearing, they are free ranged and can live on anything, grass, worms,, food waste. they are also good layers and eggs are larger in size compared to native breed. Here I have comparison...
First of all I would like to thank backyardchicken.com for registering me in their site. I was having a very hard time in joining this site for last 3 months but lastly I was registered by them. I have been raising chickens in my backyard for last 20 years, still I have so much to know from this...