Hi everyone! My three-year-old Easter Egger was very sick back in February. Her comb was pale and she was extremely listless. My vet diagnosed her as anemic through bloodwork. The chicken began a round of Meloxicam and antibiotics to address the increased white blood cells. A few days in she was...
The only girl left in my original flock is about 2.5 years old and has started losing a lot of feathers. Over the last week she started losing the down feathers on her body, and last night she lost some of her tail feathers. She does not seem to be following the typical pattern of feather loss...
Hello, everyone,
My 20-month-old hen Harriet has been having egg issues since about June when one of her sisters died from what we suspect was also egg related. She had been sporadically laying "rubber eggs" in addition to laying hard shell eggs.
I took her to the vet in late Sept. when she...
My Easter Egger (almost 18 mos) Harriet has been struggling in the FL heat. Since about June she's been laying shell-less eggs.
To help her we've been giving her electrolytes about daily and calcium + Vitamin D supplements (in water) every three days. She did produce an egg with a shell a...