I will take a fecal sample tomorrow, now that she is in isolation(the shower🙃, not the first shower chicken) I will be able to know it’s hers. If she has something I will be able to treat the other girls too. There are 8, 4 road island reds and 4 brown leg horns. She will be a year in March...
One of the girls is dehydrated and thin, comb is shrunken, poor feather quality-head/neck. I have isolated her. I have also gotten samples and checked for mites/lice, and that was negative. Any thoughts... I have a son who is very attached to his chickens. Please help.
Question? I have a dehydrated, poor feathered girl. I have isolated her. I also took samples from another girl in the coop,(had bald redness) thinking it was maybe mites/lice-negative. This girl is severely dehydrated, her comb is small, and she is thin. Any thoughts?
I do have a medical background but my “assistant” is my 8 year old son (he loves his chickens). I just don’t think it is something he would be able to help with. She seems better again today. I did some syringe feedings since she has been isolated to get something in her and she has not had...
She seems a little perkier today, but not trying to get my hopes up. Still some liquid stools but I tipped her down to see if anymore fluid would come out and it didn’t. My youngest son loves his chickens, he had helped nurse the only dog attack survivor back to health, so I will do what I can...
One of the Orpingtons is not well. We are in Nebraska and had to move for a week with all the flooding ( they came too). She has not been laying since we left. We are back home now, and have been for over a week. I thought it was probably stress from all that was going on. She passed some thick...
Update! She is still hanging in there and she laid her first egg!!! Hoping to get her out of the shower and some new chicken friends!!!
Any advice on introducing new adult chickens?
Will she still lay eggs? None of them had started laying yet, they were only 4-5 months old. Do I need to worry if she's not laying? Not worried about getting eggs just want to make sure she stays healthy!!
We got 4 baby chicks in august. Last week the neighbors dog got out and killed 3. The surviving one was pretty badly injured It has been 1 week since she was attacked. She is healing well (better than I expected) and is currently living in our small shower so she will stay warm (we are in...