Hi! I have a 2.5 year old Golden Laced Wyandotte who has been kinda off the last few weeks. I was watching her and seeing if she’d improve, however, she has slowly seemed to decline. She has a Swollen abdomen (feels hard yet still mailable) and off white yellowish poopy vent feathers. Up until...
Hey Everyone! I believe my 3.5 year old Easter Egger has sour crop. I notice her being lethargic yesterday and pooping yellow wet diarrhea. I initially started with sovereign silver and an epsom salt bath thinking it was something to do with her abdomen or vent, (she had similar symptoms about a...
Hey everyone, one of my hens has been showing some weird signs of something to do with her respiratory, but I’m not sure what it is. After reading an article on the two I think it may be; I’m thinking gapeworm, but I don’t know for sure.
If any of you have delt with gapeworms could you please...
Hi y’all, I bought Tylan 50 in March of this year, and I didn’t realize but the expiration date was for March of 2023, now I need it agian and find out that it is expired🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Is it still good? I mean it’s an antibiotic? Can it go bad? It’s been in my fridge since March, so it’s never been...
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I have two, 2 year old hens whom I raised together and have always been fine, even friendly with each other, until about 2 weeks ago. My Buff Orpington had gotten a head injury and I had to isolate her for about 2 weeks while it healed. I had her in a separate coop but still in the...
Hello, we built a new coop from scratch last year, and we went with an open roosted run space and an enclosed nesting box space, the thing is, however, most of my hens sleep in the open roosted run (as in only hardware cloth) and when it rains I have to use tapes and staples to weather proof...
I have a 4 year old hen, whom today seemed lethargic and tired. I’ve been gone for the last few days, and only have been home since this morning.
I isolated her and gave her a “911 Recover” water vitamin, and some scrambled egg, because she wasn’t interested in mealworms or food.
I’m not...
I’ve read so many different things, but what do y’all suggest?
I will be adding DE but what else? What sand is best? All purpose, river, play?
Which dirt is best as well? I know chickens have a fragile respiratory system so I’m hesitant to use anything ultra fine.
Thanks y’all!
Hey everyone. My chicken Lacy, may have MG. I was advised to get Tylan50 and dose 0.25ml per pound 3 times a day for 5 days. I weighed her today and she is 5 pounds, so that came out to 1.25ml every dose. To me this seems like a lot. So I wanted to double and triple check, that this was right...
Y’all I’m so glad I joined BYC I’ve learned SO much on here and been able to help so many of my chickens with y’all’s advice.
Thank you all for your help and advice over the last year!🥰
I was giving my chicken some medicine and it was a huge battle to open her beak. Eventually I got her head straight back and mouth wide open for a split second. I shot the liquid medicine right down her mouth forgetting about the chance of aspiration. Nothing happened and then I remembered and...
Hey everyone, I have a 2 yr old Easter Egger named, Lacy. Lately I’ve noticed some missing feathers right under her beak/chin area. today she had trouble eating a snack, and I noticed that her eye had clear bubbles in it. The exposed skin seems irritated and red as you can see in the photos...
Hey Y’all I gave my whiteleghorn hen, Equimax last Saturday, do I redose her again? For some reason I though it was like after ten days or something. I haven’t seen any worms in one of her recent poops, so I don’t know.
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Hi everyone, I recently did a post asking what kind of worm my chicken had and someone said tapeworm and then suggested Equimax.
I know it’s not poultry approved, so is it safe? I’ve tried the natural treatments haven’t seen much improvement in the worms in her poop, so I think a dewormer...
Saw this last Friday in one of my White Leg Horn hen’s poop. The day I saw it I started ACV and garlic and then DE there after. I’m gonna keep watching her for another week, before decide weather or not to pull out the big guns “antibiotics”. I really prefer the natural route as far as possible...
Hey everyone, I have an about 6 month old chick who recently I noticed was eating weird. It like she eats but then has to stop to swallow, meanwhile all her siblings eat head down just like normal. I’ve watched her eat for the last week or so, massaged her crop and felt/ tried to look down her...
Hi y’all! I just got back from a 3 day trip, and one of my hens seems to be making a weird noise. I remember her making a weird noise about a year ago, and found out she was just adjusting her crop. Could this be the same thing? She almost sounds like she is gurgling something in her throat...
Hey Y’all, I had a question about treating mold.
So just a few weeks age we built a beautiful new coop for our girls, and just a few days ago I noticed little black spots of mold growing on the upper roof support beams. I think it’s because we left them unpainted, seeing as I don’t see any on...