Thanks for your reply. Since she was first sick a week ago, I started giving her sub-cutaneous fluids, tube feeding her and giving her nightly oral Baytril (enorfloxacin at 5 mg/kg/day). She sarted to improve soon after I started SQ fluids and has continued to get better. I found a great site...
I have a 10 month old Buff Orpington who has been very healthy so far. Today, I found her laying in the rocks by her coop unable to get up-she appeard to be dead. Her breathing is labored and she was covered in biting ants-focused around her cloaca. She has access to water and food and her coop...
In order to follow the rules as much as possible and since I am both new to chicken ownership and to online forums, I will use the template offered:
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Yes! We got three chicks last spring. One Buff Orpington, One Ameraucana and one...