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I was visiting my birds today to bring them their snacks and noticed my favorite boy, Bob, was acting a little unusual. He’s a 7 year old silkie.
He’s acting a bit lethargic / fatigued but he IS eating and ate some food when I offered him some of the snacks and is drinking. Tail...
I got two chicks gifted to me three days ago due to a caretaker no longer being able to take care of them. They were both fine when I got them but on the second day the smaller one started showing signs of being lethargic, such as not eating, not drinking, and always wanting to be under the heat...
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I have a black silkie-mix, 1 year-old hen that is lethargic and popping mustard yellow/light greenish watery urate with brown stool(?) Last Saturday, she was incredibly unwell and was laying on her side in our coop while the other chickens were out. Along with that, her crop was...
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I have a 3 year and 9 month old leghorn hen who has seemingly been going through vent gleet. It all started about 3 days ago when i started seeing a “messy” butt. I pulled her in today and smelled her butt. As a result, her butt smelled like human urine. The color of those messy...
My 3 year old buff Orpington hen is acting strange she was healthy until today, she has watery yellow white diarrhea poo, she walks very slow and weirdly, she's lethargic, her voice is higher pitched then normal, she doesn't have much of a appetite, drinking lots of water, and ruffled feathers...
I got home this evening and my chickens were acting fine, my Frannie girl ran into her nesting box while I was outside and looked eager to lay an egg. Laid for a while and nothing. I went back outside to collect eggs to find her under her house not wanting to move but bearing down. Yesterday she...
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I need your help right now, my 2 year & 10 month old leghorn hen started laying soft shelled eggs a month ago. I started to feed her 1 calcium tablet (600mg) daily for 4 days but didn't see her lay an egg anymore, so I stopped with the tablets. At that time, she was still acting...
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I have a leghorn hen that is 2 year & 9 months old and today she was acting very lethargic with her feathers down, tail down. I came to the suspicion that she could of been suffering from vent gleet since her vent is all dirty and wet with this white discharge. I also noticed...
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I have a 2 year & 9 month old leghorn hen that just started to show signs of sickness 1 day ago. I'm pretty sure she is not eggbound because she did lay an egg yesterday. She did not lay an egg today though (usually she lays daily). She is still eating and drinking but not as...
Hello i have a sick chicken that is acting off.
Her symptoms are
Not eating but she's drinking lots of water.
Lethargic and sits down.
Only see her sometimes walking around.
Slightly hunched and fluffed but hard to say when she just sits down.
Her poo consists of a waterty white with solid green...
My pet chicken has been acting weird since yesterday. Yesterday I noticed she was slow (not moving around as much), she also seemed very tired, I assumed she didn't sleep well the night before and just needed to sleep some more. But today it's the same thing, Shes slow/lethargic (slow to react...
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I've recently just noticed my wayandotte bantam Lavender has become unwell
She was doing ok last week on Saturday then the next day on Sunday she started to became unwell shes about 2 years old.
Her symptoms she's showing recently are:
- Puffed up feathers
- Not entirely intrested...
Hello all, One of my girls seem to be unwell. And im not sure why. She's has the following symptoms:
- lethargic/ closes her eyes
- not interested in food or water.
-Seems to have diarrhea will send a photo of it below. ( has pooh on her bum feathers).
Her comb also seems a bit grayish black...
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My pullet (she hasn’t laid yet but she’s overdue) has spent the majority of the last 2 days in the coop/around nesting boxes. When she’s out she’s a lot slower, she used to run everywhere. She’s eating & drinking but not from her normal feeders only from foraging. I saw her...
this is ducky. She is 10 months old and has been lethargic and sad for the past week. We gave her vitamin e, egg yolks, electrolytes, diatamecious earth and more. she even had watery green poop but it started to become more brown and solidified, she was also becoming more active. Yesterday...
My 8 week old pullet has a runny nose since the day before yesterday. She keeps both her eyes closed most of the time and even when she does open them, they open partially and are watery. You can't see the orange portion of a healthy chicken's eyes in her eyes. A few days ago the part between...
New duckling mom who’s nervous!
I got ducklings from tractor supply, 3 are 2 weeks old and 3 are one week. My one yellow duck has been my problem child from the start. It’s never really liked us but the past few days it’s been sneezing then we noticed last night she was panting. She seems like...