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  1. Lily-Rose

    Please help! Injured silkie chick after fox attack

    Thank you Is there any pain relief I can give him to help ease his pain?
  2. Lily-Rose

    Please help! Injured silkie chick after fox attack

    A fox got into our young silkies cooper Saturday early morning, and all are gone save for one whom we found under our shed where he had managed to hide. He's only 2 1/2 months old. When we got him out he was unconscious and lying on his side, but breathing. He had a small cut on his head and...
  3. Lily-Rose

    Chicken who hasn't laid for 6 months laid a soft egg.

    My chicken, Ginger, who is about 2 1/2 years old, went through a molt in October, and hasn't laid an egg since then...until today. She was acting a bit under the weather, and went under the coop and emmerged a few minutes later pecking at something. The other three chickens rushed over and were...
  4. Lily-Rose

    Lethargic, tail down, bald vent

    She seemed alot perkier this morning, so I took her out of the box and put her in the garden...she trotted off and spent the day walking around eating grass and greenery and seemed much better. She's spending the night in her coop with her friend and I'll see how she is in the morning. She's...
  5. Lily-Rose

    Lethargic, tail down, bald vent

    I've heard of using a syringe to drain fluid if she feels like a water balloon. Should I try that?
  6. Lily-Rose

    Lethargic, tail down, bald vent

    She seemed more interested in eating this morning, quite enthusiastic. Gave her a warm bath which she seemed to enjoy, blow dried her afterward. Took the opportunity to have a feel of her backside Beneath the vent, no hardness, but liquidy feeling, sort of like a water balloon. is that normal...
  7. Lily-Rose

    Lethargic, tail down, bald vent

    Both weights are fine...Ginger is running about the garden as usual, scratching in the dirt, eating greens and layers pellets (Their main staple) and having a good time, then there's poor Babs huddled in a corner looking thoroughly miserable. Should just put wood shavings (Their usual bedding)...
  8. Lily-Rose

    Lethargic, tail down, bald vent

    Will dust them both down with mite killer stuff, and their coop. Just regular yoghurt? Didn't know chickens could eat yoghurt lol. The tough part of that is getting her to eat. I checked her crop just now to see if it was maybe blocked or swollen, and it was completely empty, so she hasn't...
  9. Lily-Rose

    Lethargic, tail down, bald vent

    Here she is, my poor darling. She came out of the coop this morning and slowly walked to where she is now after languidly pecking at a few blades of grass and what not, then went and stood on the pathway and is currently snoozing there. Any ideas from the photos what could be wrong?
  10. Lily-Rose

    Lethargic, tail down, bald vent

    I'm thinking it's mites, so going to dust them both down with something and have the coop scrubbed and sprayed. 2012 was the wettest year we've had in ages. it rained almost every day through summer, autumn and winter, so the poor chickens didn't get out to dustbathe as much as they usually do...
  11. Lily-Rose

    Lethargic, tail down, bald vent

    I went out after speaking with the gentleman who sold me the chickens and he did say to check the coop again for red mite...as soon as it was dark, I went out with my phone, got the torch on and had a look in the coop. I saw one red mite crawling on the wall. no idea where the others are, but...
  12. Lily-Rose

    Lethargic, tail down, bald vent

    Thank you so very much. I'm in Scotland, and it's dark right now as the sun goes down at 4pm in the winter, so I shall take photos of her tomorrow when I let them out in the morning if she's still unwell.
  13. Lily-Rose

    Lethargic, tail down, bald vent

    I'll give it a try. Just water?
  14. Lily-Rose

    Lethargic, tail down, bald vent

    I've had my two chickens for a year and a half and until recently have had no problems with them at all. One of my girls, Babs, went through a molt and stopped laying, this was a couple of months ago, and her plumage is fine now but she has not resumed laying. Yesterday afternoon I noticed she...
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