Thanks everyone, that's helpful information. She ate a bunch of yogurt, then some layer feed and recovered after about 24hr so back out to the run she went. No issues since then. We picked up some amprollium so next time we might try that right away.
Also, their run is in an area that used to...
5 months old, they have been in the same run/coop/property since we got them. None new. She at a bunch tonight, we just changed them from booster to layer feed (no amprollium), she had a semi-solid brown and white poop tonight. We gave her yogurt tonight (she at lots), then she ate layer feed...
This is the 3rd time 2 out of our 5 EE chickens (5 mo old each) have experienced these exact same symptoms. We find them keeping their right eye closed, sleeping while other chickens are active, lethargic, with a decreased appetite. Watery diarrhea. Eyes do not appear red, no drainage. They...
Well, it seems as though she's recovered. No longer straining and poops are almost back to normal size. I'm not sure if everything we did helped her at all or just tortured her but she is still as sweet as before.
1 week ago we noticed our 18 wk old EE hen mildly lethargic and having single episodes of straining, sounding like a high-pitched human grunting while constipated. She wouldn't eat her feed and what little poop she did squeeze out was watery and white stuff. We naturally ***-umed she was...