My husband just administered .25cc Penicillin to a sick chicken in the breast (slightly to the side of the breast bone). He put it in about 1/2 cm, pulled out to ck for blood, clear, injected. She almost immediately went into shock...probably she will be gone soon, but answers for others/next...
Okay, we now have 2 hens with this exact condition. What could be slowing digestion and causing these symptoms?
We are calling the vet and trying to get them in asap before we lose the whole flock :(
Almost a year old silver-laced Wyandotte hen.
Three days ago my husband found her lethargic in...
Just discovered our easter eggers wheezing hard, kinda out of nowhere, was fine this morning.
She was laying down under the coop and acting strange. Still eating and running around with the others mostly.
She's about 5 months old.
What is it?! How do we treat it?
I'm sorry I don't have time to...
So, our Light Brahma hen (a year old this spring) has a swollen cloaca and vent area. She's still eliminating but it is soft (not diarrhea) and green-ish sometimes with some bloody lining, pretty normal but not in tube-form. There is gooey clear, white, and yellowish (looks like urine with goo?)...
We got 9 chicks in the mail Thursday morning.
Immediately put them under the heat lamp (95 degrees) and got them eating and drinking. We put a little sugar in the water. The food is non-medicated start & grow. The bedding is pine shavings. There is cardboard under their waterer and we spread...