1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Amberstar, Seems about the same.
2) What is the behavior, exactly. See video
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? 2 days
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms? No
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I ask those that I give/sell eggs to, please let me know if the eggs is "weird". This is the first in years ... I know who laid it as I have only 3 hens, each laying a different color egg. The hen (1.5yr) who laid this egg had a soft shell egg in May and July, her eggs get odd shaped at times...
My Aunt has new chicks that arrived yesterday. She bought them form tractor supply and got them shipped. They have access to feed and water, the water has probiotics and electrolytes for the Sav a Chick brand. All of them had their beaks dipped in water. The temperature is good, they seem...
I went out to feed this morning and found my turkey hen had a prolapsed vent and her little jerk flock mates decided to peck it excessively. I clean it with Microsyn ah wound and skin Care hydrogel and put some hydrocortisone cream around the edges of her vent and attempted to gently push it...
The last time this happened, April 27, I posted in the egg-laying behaviors forum: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/transient-ataxia-and-egg-laying.1523132/#post-25653242 Now, it's recurred, and I'm seeking help to prevent or effectively resolve what appears to be ataxia related to...
Hi. My three year old leg horn started wheezing on Monday. I attached the video of her. She was acting normal; eating, drinking, and even laid an egg on Monday. I isolated her & treated her last week for worms with safeguard for 5 days. She was so infested with them that her crop became...
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My 8 year old hen is having some major crop problems and I don’t know how to fix it. She won’t digest seeds so I brought her inside where for half of the day she eats fruits and lettuce and then the other half she free ranges.
she is now starting to poop out water and lettuce and grass...
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i am having some trouble identifying my hens illness. She is eight years old and is a new hampshire.
her symptoms are;
- white diarrhea poops with occasional green (bile). I had a sick hen with ascites who laid similar poops and it Had a distinct smell which is the same smell...
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I live in Florida and my chickens usually pant. I have had one in October breathe heavily and sneeze and in a week she died sadly. I know this is some sort of respiratory illness but I’m having trouble on treating it. I have given Doxy-Tyl and Baytril on separate occasions but I...
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I have an 8 year old hen who doesn’t seem to be doing too well. last year she had to come inside every few weeks for sour crop until she finally got pendulous crop. I put a crop bra on her and it seemed to help. Ever since then though, she has been having problems. The bra was...
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I have an eight year old hen who lays eggs about every other day. It’s not consistent but every time she lays them they are great except for occasional calcium deposits.
the past two eggs she has laid have had these weird bloody spots on them. I took a picture of the one she just...
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I have made past threads about this hen so I will just give a recap... she had constant sour crop and ended up having pendulous. She wouldn’t eat until I gave her a molasses flush and for the past two weeks she has been shoving her face with food trying to regain the weight she...
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We are going to add 5 Barred Rock Pullets to our flock. That will bring our number back up to 12. We've had a bit of bad luck recently, more about that here... https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/second-sick-hen.1445783/
These five will be going in a very large kennel with a...
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I already posted about this hen before, I don’t know how to do a link of a thread so it’s the one titled odd thing in crop and she is also mentioned in my other ascites not eating thread.
I started a new thread because I think she has to much going on for me to save her right now...
Hi everyone,
I already posted about this hen before, I don’t know how to do a link of a thread so it’s the one titled odd thing in crop and she is also mentioned in my other ascites not eating thread.
I started a new thread because I think she has to much going on for me to save her right now...
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One of my hens has something weird in her crop. It is about 4 inches long and feels like a thick piece of lettuce. It’s the light green at the base of a piece of lettuce or romaine and it feels like a four inch piece of it in her crop. It can bend in the middle but it’s pretty...
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my eight year old hen seems To be having some massive crop problems.
throughout the end of last year into this year she has been having to come in to be treated for sour crop and about two weeks later she would be back in for it.
at the beginning of last week, she started to show...
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I have a black sex link who is four years old. She is still laying but I haven’t noticed her laying in the past two weeks. Her eggs in the past have been normal... never has she laid a weird egg. Lately she has slowed down on eating her food but she still eats a decent amount...
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i have posted here before about this hen and i need help again. She is 8 years old and is still laying eggs. She is a black sex link and had a molt more than a month ago and is back to laying eggs. She has had them spaced out between two days or three but she has been laying nice...