I have attached a picture of one of my chickens poo. She had the hormone implant done on Monday, it is now Thursday and today she has started behaving lethargic, depressed, not eating and her poos are a liquid consistency as shown in the photo. I can hear gurgling noises coming from her...
When humans get colds and flus we wait it out and it ultimately makes our immune systems more robust, and makes us healthier. Do chickens get seasonal viruses like humans do, that ultimately makes them healthier? Or is everything a death sentence for the flock unless treated with antibiotics...
One of my chickens has been getting sick with the same symptoms every few months and I’m unable to see a vet. The symptoms she has is lethargy, lack of appetite, gurgling sounds from her stomach, red, swollen and sore vent with discharge. I think this time there’s been small bits of blood? I...
We have a suspicion of Salmonella in our flock. I am waiting for the lab results, they told me Salmonella and Campylobacter are suspected, they have to isolate it. I wanted to ask - in case it proves we do have Salmonella in the flock, can it be treated? I read many articles on this topic, and...
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...
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One of the chickens, Blueberry, a very heavy bird (Beechwood Blue), has had some trouble recently. She's always had terrible bumblefoot since she's such a heavy breed (I tried to cut it out but failed, not allowed to try again and vets here don't do it or care), and she...
We had four 15 week old Pekin chickens. Last week one became very lethargic, with diarrhoea, and then was put to sleep by the vet. She did not know what the cause was. We now have another chicken going the same way. Still eating and drinking, but very lethargic and not wanting to move much. Will...
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My bantam hen started laying this week (Tuesday), she has laid an egg around lunch time everyday since. Today she laid before I went down to open up the coop. It’s was a soft-shelled egg, surrounded by LOTS of diarrhoea. It was slightly creased on top, didn’t look punctured but...
I have 2 older chickens ~ 3 years old and 2 laying pullets
The older chickens have had a history of diarrhoea but never managed to properly diagnose it. Was not particularly concerned as they were still laying and diarrhoea was not all the time.
On a closer look we've recently noticed some...