I found out what was wrong with my sick chicken. Unfortunately she died. But she caught a chill from an opened window and developed a lung infection. Her lungs filled with fluid and she could not breathe. I spoke with our local chicken expert at the farm store and she recognized the problem...
Hi Dave, She is still listless and all puffed up. Now her bottom is bare. Im quite certain that the others had picked her down feathers off. But I picked her up and turned her over to get a good look and I did not see any mites. But while I had her upside down clear liquid came pouring out...
She is 1 1/2 years old and is an Araucana. We live in northern Indiana. The chickens are in a chicken house with a nice run that is fenced in. I dont know what her droppings look like. I will need to watch her drop some poop so that I can look at it. But all of them are dropping some runny...
I have a chicken that seems to be feeling sickly. She has poop on her rear fluff but her vent appears to be clear. She wasnt too happy to have me looking at her rear. This morning she was still on the roost with her tail feathers down and she was all fluffed up. Her head was hanging low...