She is a little less than a year old, her pupil is acting normally, she is eating and drinking, I just done know how much because she usually just sits in the coop away from the other chickens to avoid being bullied. I did catch her sneeze yesterday evening. I will check up on her today. Her...
Our smaller hen, although she’s the same age, has recently just changed eye color, it used to be a yellow color but now it’s dark. I assumed it was the colder weather and shook it off. Then, I noticed her comb turning white, and also, when I was carrying her, she kept shaking her head violently...
Some morbid news, the hen was just in too much pain, I came home from work to find her leg decaying from the mites and she was shaking in pain, the suffering out weighed the survival chances so we put her down. It was hard, but now we have some resources for the future, so it’s all good. We’re...
I’m also fearing she’s developing stargazing, not wry neck. One of the other chickens that were injured but died developed wry neck, couldn’t walk, wouldn’t eat and died
She hasn’t pooped from the time I took her in and the temperature is high 80’s with humidity the injury is mostly healed but where it was at is the top part of the open feathers
A month and a half ago, one of our hens was attacked by a wild dog. She had a deep claw mark in her back and was lying on the floor shaking. We have given her an antibiotic spray that kills germs for reducing the risk of infection. 3 weeks from that and she was doing fine, she was in a separate...
We got our chickens about 2 years ago and it was originally for the eggs but then we came to love the chickens too. We have 6 chickens right now and we’re already wanting more. We’re pretty basic on breeds, we have Orpington and Red Star hens. I like watching the chickens roam and check out...