dehydrated hen

  1. Y

    Help! Chicken Emergency

    Hi everyone, I’m having a real emergency with one of my chickens. Does anyone know if there are any skilled board-certified vets in New York State with enough surgical experience/good success rate dealing with reproductive issues in chickens? She also seems to have a doughy/impacted crop and is...
  2. lunahills

    Hen not laying eggs but in the box all day and night

    I have a hen who hasn’t laid an egg in the past three days but has been hanging out in the box all day and night. It has been in the 90s here so at first I thought the heat was keeping her from laying. Now I’m concerned that she isn’t drinking and is dehydrated. She’s acting a little lethargic...
  3. W

    Dehydrated chicken?? Need help

    Yesterday morning I found my chicken falling over and couldn't keep her head up. It keep going back as if she was looking towards the ceiling. I figured it was because their water ran out. I started giving her water with a syringe and within an hour or two looked better but still very thin and...
  4. C

    Diarrhea in 8 week old chicks

    I just moved my chicks to their coop full time. I put food and water in the coop but for some reason the poultry nipples got blocked and they didn’t get any water for over 24 hours. I had trained them how to use it, so it’s not that they didn’t know how, they just quit working. I put the waterer...
  5. Grey Gables

    Not sure what’s wrong — dehydration? Parasites?

    Hi, My 5 month old RIR has not been herself the last few hours. I went to let my chickens out of their run and everyone excitedly ran out. She did not, which is very unusual. She eventually slowly walked out toward the others. She kept stopping and standing still for lengths of time. High was...
  6. sandyp

    Overheated hen

    My Sussex hen overheated today. At least, that is what I think happened considering that she hasn’t displayed any suspicious behaviors beforehand. I found her under the coop with a blue crown and gasping for breath. Her airways were not obstructed and the episode only lasted for a couple of...
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