Hello hello
If you are still there (23h30 in France - I have to go to bed soon): did you see my post about the "empty" throat of the dead chicken, apart from a bit of whitish liquid and four or five white pinhead spots? our cock's breath sounded a bit "bubbly" tonight (not rasping, but like...
Does anyone have a photo of what a chicken with ILT's throat looks like?
Apparently our dead chuck's throat did not look like the photo given in the post above - she had a bit of white liquid in her throat, but otherwise four or five small white spots on her palet - pinhead sized, slightly...
Another question, just in case anyone's still reading...
If it is ILT, does it set in quick?
The dead hen was sick last thurs/fri, and the other two are still showing no signs. I know that fowl pox is slow-moving, but ILT?
Merci
Tibsimbru
OK excellent: thank you all. All very useful info, especially the photos of wet pox. Explains the "false membrane" thing the vet was talking about (I'm in France, BTW).
You can get autoposies done here - to be investigated. But the dead () hen may not have been kept cool enough.
Will...
Thank you for your answer. Appreciate it.
We found the vet "en urgence", and not sure he's a chicken specialist. Apparently this was not the first hen he's examined, but we didn't have the impression he's a hen expert either. We're tracking down a chuck specialist today, along with the...
Hello
We are new chicken owners, and have run into some trouble.
We got two little hens about a month ago - "bantams de pekin" in French, and then two more and a rooster (different species - not sure of name in English - see photo) a week ago. We haven't mixed the two batches. They are all...