I have a bantam cochin hen, that's about 2 years old. Suddenly started having symptoms of a stroke of sorts! Her neck & head acts like it isn't connected to her body & she can't control it. Acts like she can't see from her left side, & constantly turns her neck to the right. She can still eat &...
I had a similar incident happen with one of my roos. He was about 3, and started not acting himself, but was still eating & drinking. However, lost a lot of weight, his comb shriveled, eventually face turned pale, & finally after about a month of going down hill, he finally died. Just never did...
No new chickens or anything brought in. I had 18 chicks hatch out via the mom hen at the end of April, & they have all been out together the entire time. The new chicks are in the next coop, but they don't intermingle. I had put some sulfa (Sulmet) in the drinking water for a day or so, but was...
Thanks! And to answer a few questions: wormed with Wazine~haven't seen anything unusual in the poop, although it's hard to tell. No other chicks are sick, & I have a total of 25. Felt his crop tonight after he had eaten a good bit of scratch corn~I could def feel the feed in it, but I gently...
I have a 3 yo bantam cochin rooster. Over the past month, he has not been himself. He went from being the alpha roo, to getting beat up & I had to remove the other roo to prevent him from being injured. He's a gentle roo. About this same time, he went from having a nice, red large comb, to a...
I have 4 distinct groupings of pet chicks. The older two are grown gray bantam cochin, roo & hen & they have their own coop. The other are grown bantams (not cochin) roo & 2 hens, they have their own coop. Then grown white bantam cochin roo & 5 hens. And finally 4 young bantam (not cochin) 3...