Last Friday I found a hen that had been attacked, possibly by a hawk or raccoon. She had a lot of blood on the right side of her face, with a swollen and shut eye. I also found a wound on her back. I rinsed her wounds and cleaned some of the blood before applying vetericyn and put her indoors...
Hi everyone, I’ve been a lingerer on these forums since I got my 3 Pekings (2 drakes and a hen) approx 9 months ago (they are under a year old) …today I have just got back from the vets with one of my drakes who seems extremely unwell to the extent I don’t believe he will be getting better but...
Hi, I have a ~5 year old Brahma hen named Boba who I brought inside to treat for flystrike last weekend after noticing her all fluffed up in the yard by herself--I think my boyfriend posted a thread about her when it first happened so maybe someone has heard a little about her situation already...
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I’ve got an almost 2 year old hen who’s usually our most eager and voracious about food now refusing food :( she’s only eaten a few bites a day and it’s just so different from her usual behaviour.
Her crop wasn’t emptying out for a few days but I think it’s a little better now. She hasn’t...
Hi everyone, I know this will have been covered in a thread already but I’m a bit desperate. Our favourite little ex battery hen is sick. She has always been the scrawniest since we adopted her three months ago and her feathers still haven’t grown back but she is usually very strong, fiesty and...
Late Saturday afternoon she became startled when one of the other girls was returned to the brooder box with purple wrap. All the ducks were startled, actually, but she has stopped eating. She swam some and drank, will drink from the pen water station, but we are giving her electrolites...
My Buff Orpington rooster is 4 years old. His health suddenly turned over about a 1 day period, as far as I know. He developed the following problems:
Undigested food in crop
Light green, watery poop (probably colored by bile, with lack of solids due to food not being passed down from crop)...