This is my 4 year hen who has been doing this for about 2 weeks now. She seems fine otherwise...eating, drinking, and moving. She is panting bc despite water mister and multiple fans and shade and cold water...it is 105 in texas. any ideas? i couldn't upload the video except to the "gallery"...
FYI: It's not gangrene. it is the purple wound cote spray that looks darker in places
Background on this sweet chicken:
always has a dirty butt from poop. i hadn't cleaned it in a while and noticed she wasn't feeling well - this was about 2 weeks ago. When i cleaned her up, she had a huge...
Hi my 3 year old Barred Rock is acting normal, but she is red and swollen under her vent. She is eating, drinking and acting normal. I don't know if she has layed an egg recently or not, but the swollen area is squishy, not hard. I did see one little tan mite when I was taking pics up close...
Our favorite hen has this yellow plaque mass (picture taken today) since June 15th (so 5 weeks now). A few of my other hens had dry pox at the same time I noticed this, but their dry pox have long since healed. So wet pox? I have given her elderberry, thyme, vitamins, probiotics, VetRx, ACV...
I'm out of ideas to incorporate a flock of 9 month old pullets (4 of them) with some 3 year old chickens (4 of them). The bigs bully/attack the littles.
I tried letting them co-exist with a hardware cloth separating them for a week. I tried putting them in at night. By the time I got to them...