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That does sound about right. She’s not “limping” or seizing or shaking. But “scuttling” around, when absolutely necessary, sounds about right. I’ll see if vitamins help.

Nope. We’re in Oregon.

I read through this FAQ and it does sound like Mareks to me. Of all the other look alike diseases they suggest, I think I can rule out most. It’s possibly a vitamin deficiency since I haven’t had them on any vitamins, but I figured since they were getting both commercial feed and a huge area to...

Reading about both, Mareks sounds a little likelier to me. None of my birds are vaccinated. Luckily, so far, I do t see any symptoms in any of the others.

Thank you for the suggestions!

She’s 4.5 months old. I will try what you suggested and see if now that I have her isolated if I can get a picture of droppings that I know are hers.

Bright green, yes. Somewhat liquid.

Hi All, I have 21 chickens and this is my first year with them (have had them since March), so I don’t have any real experience with chicken diseases yet. My cream crested legbar hen started acting weird yesterday. She was just lying on the ground in full sun, which was strange since it was mid...

New chicken keeper here. I have 8 adult hens all about 1.5 years old that I adopted from their previous owner about 2 months ago. Today, I saw one of my Ameracauna hens (the feistiest and most assertive of all of my hens) hop on top of one of my RIRs (the one who I think is #8 of 8 in the...

Hi everyone - I came into my coop today to find one of my favorite pullets dead and I am hoping you can help me figure out why. I had 10 pullets of mixed breed in there, all 4.5 - 5.5 week’s old. I had only just put them in there 3 days ago. Before that, they had been in two separate brooder...

Hi everyone, I'm brand new to chickens. We got our first day-old chicks 3 weeks ago. And then we got some year-old layers that a neighbor could no longer take care of just a few days later. So now we have... Chicks: (1) Welsummer named Moe (1) Salmon Faverolle named Martha (1) GL...

Hi forum - I hope you all can help! I have four chicks that I got all on the same day. They should have all been day-old chicks, especially because I went to the feed store the same day they received their new delivery of chicks. 3 of the 4 started out the same size, with 1 of the 4 (the gray...

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I have new feed now and it is medicated. Just in case the light bulbs were Teflon coated, I looked for a replacement at the feed store. They had no idea what I was taking about when I brought up Teflon coated bulbs and toxins. They only had one type of infrared bulbs and the box doesn’t say...

Yup. Thanks for the suggestions. These two actually don’t have me worried. I have seen them at the waterer using it. The bricks just make it so that the waterer isn’t down below the level of the pine shavings in the floor of the tub (because shavings kept falling in and getting wet). On the...

Thank you! I am worried about them getting cocci from the coop. The previous owner of this farm built it and used it for his chickens. And then it went unused for a year and a half after we bought the place. When I went to clean it, it looked like not only had starlings moved in during the...

Thanks for the tip. We are getting them medicated feed this morning. And a happy update, the remaining four made it through the night. So, at least that’s good.

Thank you so much everyone!! I can’t believe how many people wrote in and all the helpful ideas I have gotten. I was so worried no one would write in and that I would spend all night wondering if there’s more I should be doing RIGHT NOW. There’s stuff like replacing the food that I *wish* I...

I will check in the morning, it’s in a bin out in the coop. I didn’t notice any moldy smell or texture but I also didn’t intentionally give it a smell. That said, we are in Oregon, so everything is always cold and wet here. And this feed store I got it from keeps the chicken feed out back -...

They are actually huddling NEAR the bulbs in almost the hottest part of the brooder. The area where they are huddling is 90 F. 2/3 of the giant bin isnt under the heat bulbs at all and the temperatures outside here have been between 35 F - 55 F since we’ve had them, so they DEFINITELY have...