Sounds like water belly. I had a hen do this intermittantly. I brought her inside, withheld water in large amounts, moistened her feed, and gave her extra protein in her feed.
You can reduce and control her access to water. It sounds like water belly from heart or liver failure.
I saved a hen...
Update, this chick never grew normally. She is 1/4 the size of her sibings and her feathers are ratty looking like she is not absorbing nutrients. When she was 6 weeks old I hatched a couple chicks to keep her company and now they are 8 weeks and they are bigger then her at 16 weeks.
I thought...
Looks like my feather eaters. I’m doing a process of elimination. I wormed them. I treated for mites. Now I suspect feather eaters. I’m also feeing protien supplement and no change …
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It’s warm enough if you have a thermometer to track temps and a ceramic heat lamp or radiant heat. I avoid artificial light.
No don’t add new chicks to 3 week olds. It could end with blind chicks and blood.
My little Bresse darlings love their ceramic heat lamp with natural light. I use a smooth surface for the first week like paper towels or similar. Then we switch to pine chips after they are walking well and no splay leg.
My favorite brooder is the tent. I raise the most docile birds because we...
They were 20 weeks old. I hatched them. I usually only ever hatch chickens but broke my rule and brought live birds from a breeder.
I swear if we get confirmation this is not tumors … I promise to never ever again… wait this reminds me of when I bargained with God asking that I was not...
First I’d like to change my name to chicken worrier. Next I’d like to thank @Wyorp Rock for helping me identify and treat sick chickys.
Lastly, I was wondering if anyone can take a look and tell me if this thymus looks normal. I was processing and happen to notice these in all the BCM. I...
I appreciate your analysis. My husband said the same thing. I just don’t know enough about maraks to say it’s definitely not the big bad ugly M word. Especially when every search I found said one leg paralyzed.
Now that you mention shock - it fits. This was a fragile bird. It was not a hardy...
If you’re like me and need to do something You could treat for a possible abscess with neosporin on the white part and Oregano oil in his food or water. It’s antibacterial antiviral.
The boys buried her already and now I’m a neurotic mess.
She was in the act of getting trampled. She was fine moments before. I saw her walking around the coop.
I’ve never seen Mareks. Is it that fast? Walking one moment, down the next, dead 24 hours later?
Seems like it’s a wasting disease...