25 chickens of all different shapes and sizes! 11 Straight Run laying hens that are currently producing just shy of a dozen large extra large eggs a day. 14 Assorted bantams (Seabrights, OEG, and Duccle/OEG mixes, and possible Seabright/OEG mix) Two of the bantam females have sat once this...
This chick was born 29 March 2010 at Townline hatchery and we're not quite sure what it is. When it was a chick it looked pretty clearly like an old english game bantam, perhaps a silver duckwing, but we don't really know. As it has aged it does not look like any chicken we can find. Any help is...
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She got sick around Tuesday of last week... Lethargic, sitting around, avoiding the group and sorta pouting. Finally it was to much and we brought her in to try and figure out what was going on.
She had....
Diarrhea (gave yogurt... had to force feed.)
Crop was...
So I finally found small little round worms in my little girl! On the road to recovery!!! Man they where hard to find, wouldn't have noticed until I started seeing the poo move :S
So far, the only chickens of ours to show signs of worms are our D'Uccles. We lost one and just fought round two...
I am fairly concerned about one of my chickens... She has had this problem before and we wormed and doctored her up and she got better... but its happened again...
We wormed our flock last fall although we never actually saw any worms... two of our favorite girls got sick (one passed RIP...
So our love of Belgian D'Uccles has managed to become quite an obsession! After picking up 5 Millie Fleur chicks and our very first Porcelain I was on a mission to find all different kinds of color variations! So after two weeks of TSC (come from Townline Hatchery) not getting any new booted...
we are in dire need of some help.
We have already lost 1 Bantam and now her sister is acting up! Have done a lot of research, but seems like its pointing to a few things... Egg Perinotnitis, Egg binding, or worms.
1) What type of bird , age and weight.
Millie Fleur Bantam
around 6-7...