Simba appears to have pretty bad sour crop (see post- https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=7201594#p7201594) and her condition is gradually getting worse. She looks like she may not make it through the night, she's lost so much weight and is barely eating, i don't even know...
thanks for your reply-i'll try to find your post.
Do you think it would upset her is she's kept alone? i'm worried it will only make things worse. I'm going to go and take them all some yoghurt now and try to make it seem utterly irrestistable to her so hopefully she'll eat some!
A few days ago I noticed that Simba's stomach seemed swollen; i didn't really know much about it so i checked to see if she was egg bound, which she didn't seem to be, and she seemed absolutely fine otherwise (although her comb had bent over a little.) Over the next few days this seemed to go...
thank you for your replies..
with this weather i feel quite certain it's not heat which is the problem! i've been doing some research on gapeworm so i'm looking out for the signs, thank you!
and thank you for the link, they seem to tick quite a few boxes for quite a few of the problems so it's...
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Hi, my chickens aren't too enthusiastic about drinking water with their antibiotics, so i'm looking to make it into some kind of mash. Do you know what the dose is for each bird/day, if it's not given through water? (Denagard 12.5%, 10 hens.) Thanks.
One of my chickens has been sneezing a bit for the last few weeks, and after some research i got some anti biotics from the vets, presuming it was a CRD (she also had a little water/foam in her eyes at night.) However the course has now finished (all 10 of them were having tylan in their water...