Hi, I'm new here. Here is the lowdown on this poor chick:
[YESTERDAY - day 1] The chick my first-time broody hatched in August isn't doing well. Less than two weeks ago she was still roosting with mom, occasionally still tucking under her, and this week I have found her in the run, by herself...
Hi All! First time poster here....
I've noticed my chicken looking really sick lately and was wondering if anyone has any thoughts (pictures below). She's just standing around hunched over and closing her eyes often. She definitely has a swollen crop, and it feels kind of mushy, not super hard...
Ruby (golden comet) is 16 weeks old today. On Friday I noticed her staying in the coop more when everyone else was outside in the run. I got excited because I thought she might be checking out the nesting boxes and planning to lay her first egg. When I went out to shut them in for the night...
My 3 year old hen who is usually super excited about being fed was very unenthusiastic yesterday about feeding time. throughout the day she became lethargic. today she didnt want to eat at all and has been lethargic, and drinking a lot. She has started eating again, but i don't know what is...
This morning one of my Rhode Island Reds passed away. I’m very concerned that it was Marek’s. Here are all the symptoms and things I’ve noticed:
• For about a month, she’s been very lethargic and sitting still during the day.
• She chose to lay on the floor at night rather than roosting
• She...
Hi everyone - I'm brand new to all of this and we got some baby chicks only a few days ago. They all currently ranging in ages between 4 or 5 days old and about 10 days old. They were all fine and active, but one of the youngest ones (about 5 days old now) suddenly rapidly declined in the last...
I have a two year old golden comet who is sick. She is standing still hunched up, chicken tucked under, with pale/small waddle and comb. She had an enormously poopy butt, and we gave her a bath last night to make sure she didn't have an obstruction. During her bath, I could feel her keel. After...
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)...
Recently, I noticed that one of our chickens was acting very strangely. Over the past two days she's been randomly lying on the ground and sleeping. The other chickens were not picking on her, but it still alarmed me. I checked up on her and I couldn't feel anything strange about her, so I let...
1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.)
She is a Barred Rock, 3 years old, don't know her exact weight, but definitely feels lighter than normal.
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
Extreme lethargy, wings hanging down, comb and...
My poor Foghorn has really been through it. He was really lethargic yesterday, I could pick him up even & hold him in my lap. He'd falling asleep when all else was action action action. I've not been able to identify his particular poo. But there has been an increase in icky diarrhea the last...
1 year old silver laced Wyandotte, she has been broody then stopped and was well for a bout a week in between, then she stopped eating and looked lethargic, seperated to keep and eye on and started giving amprolium oral drench 2ml .. but no sign of improvement.today when I picked her up to give...
Hello chicken experts!
This morning when I went to check on my flock, one of my RIR pullets appeared a little lethargic (standing still, slightly droopy (but not severe), one leg held up, eyes closed). She’s about 5 months old and has been showing interest in the nesting boxes for about a...
Hi all, I recently decided to add to my flock, so I purchased 2 chickens, a silkie and an easter egger, from a guy on Craigslist. In retrospect, that was a bad idea from the beginning. Since they've come home, I've noticed that the silkie bites me, bullies the EE, and dominates the food, eating...
My spring Ameracauna hen was fine yesterday, has been laying beautiful small eggs. Today she seems very lethargic. My first clue was she didn't run up to me with the rest of the chickens when I went out. She is just laying around. Went in and sat in the nest box a couple of times, no egg...
I have a 3 year old Java who is obviously not well. Here are her symptoms:
Lethargy, content to sit in a nesting box all day
Unable to walk or painful to walk
Tight abdomen - feels like a tight water balloon
Was not eating regular food and had bile-like poo
Now eating small amounts of sweet...
Hi! I have a Penedesenca chick who we got with another Penedesenca chick, two Ameraucanas, and two SL Wyandottes. We got them all at the same time at TSC and didn't notice any difference in size. However we now notice that one Penedesenca chick is much smaller than all of the other chicks...
My 18 month old Rhodie started acting odd a few days ago. It's been hot and I thought she was molting (hasn't laid all summer, lost a lot of feathers). However, she is extremely lethargic, her comb is pale, and she hasn't moved out of a dark corner of the run all day. I didn't feel an egg when I...
I had a silver apple yard hen only about 9 mos. old. She was a runt and pretty much unable to lay eggs, every time she did lay an egg, they were very tiny or not well formed. Two days ago she didn't want to come out of her house in the morning, I thought maybe because she didn't want me to...
Hi All,
I need some help! One of my chickens has shown several different symptoms in a progression over the last few days. Below is info, I have been researching everything under the sun and I cannot figure out what she has. I don't want to over treat her for the wrong thing. Advice is much...