My year and a half old americauna, daisy, can't walk, but she tries. I noticed a little over a week ago that she would just sit around and stumble a little when she tried to get up. I wasn't too worried because I thought she felt sick from parasites or the heat, so like I do with all of my other...
That does sound like heat stress. I live in Arizona so I have had lots of problems with this! As for the water, having an open dish will keep the water cool from evaporation off the surface. It is also a good idea to have a mister running constantly. They may not like it at first, but if it gets...
One and a half year old cream legbar, Georgie, started acting very strangely just barely because she wouldn't stand up and was sitting there sideways. I had been outside a couple hours before and she was fine, so she went downhill very fast. Every time I try to give her water in a dropper she...
No she doesn't have any other respiratory symptoms, but the scabs on her comb are definitely not from others pecking her. She has never had bad injuries before and she is very good at defending herself from other chickens. The ones she has are slightly raised and sometimes have white around them...
I just give them good veggies like zucchini, garlic, pumpkin, carrots, bell peppers, jalapenos and cayenne which have natural deworming properties that paralyzes parasites and flushes them out. A lot of the time I blend those veggies and more all together for a healthy treat for the girls...
I haven't seen any scabs on her legs and feet. It looks like one of the scabs on her comb was pecked because now it's all bloody. Would the chicken that pecked her possibly get wet fowl pox? Or is wet and dry fowl pox two completely different viruses?
I have that problem with my chickens alot! What I always do is bring them into the bathroom where it's cool and their bodies can take a break. If she's too unresponsive to drink water, I get a syringe (not the needle kind) open her beak with my fingers, and squirt the water down her throat. The...
My little 9 m old chicken, Minnie, has fowl pox. She has a wart on the corner of one eye that is red and swollen and is very uncomfortable. She can hardly open her eye, and when she does open it(she tries to open it a lot) she shakes her head and wipes her eye on her feathers. Her feathers are...
Your post made me cry! I had an experience like this recently with my 4 day old baby chick. She would not eat or drink and I knew she was sick and would die, so I held her in my hands for two hours trying to keep her warm and comfortable before she passed away. It is so sad that these things...