My one year old golden comet Dixie, always had a small calcium deficiency, and she is a larger hen.
She has access to oyster shell, and I give my hens booster vitamin once a week to all my hens in their waterer.
Yesterday, I found a blown out soft shell egg and couldn’t figure out who laid it...
TSC is fairly close by, but I was wondering if we can use any of these things around the house to help out our pullet (profile) right now. She can poop, and it seems to go in and out but we still are worried.
- expired Neosporin
- saline wound wash spray (gentle, no burning/stinging)
-...
Hi guys, we need some pretty urgent help regarding a chicken, the local vet wasn't much help as they basically said that the vent needs to go back inside or the chicken put down, but we're really struggling to get it back in. We think the large intestine has also come out of her as we can see...
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One of my moms birds has an issue, a few days ago she had a small protrusion that she thought was a prolapse.
The tissue would not go back in, she used some medications on it, soaked it, the chicken stayed in the house for a few days, was eating fine, pooping fine...
I have a 5 month old Buff Orpington who prolapsed on Friday 1/22. She also had 2 eggs in her. A friend of ours told us we needed to push the prolapse and the egg that we could see back in, as we started to do so she strain and the egg popped out and shortly after another egg followed. We believe...
I have a 5 month old Buff Orpington who prolapsed 3 days ago. We were able to reinsert the prolapsed and it stays until she poops. We withheld food for 24 hour to try and help this. She went about 5 hours without prolapsing but then she pooped and it happened all over again. I’m concerned that...
My 2 year old Sapphire Gem had a huge prolapse that may have broke as she expelled clots once I had her in warm water. It won't stay inside - so now she is in a dark area. We have NO vets for birds within at least 100 miles. I am feeding corn, vitamin water and gave her an Antibiotic orally...
Okay. I’m very new to raising chickens. I have 6 chicken, they are all starting to lay about 20-24 weeks of age. 2 amberlinks, 2 barred rocks, and 2 red sex links.
Two days ago I noticed some weird behavior from my one of the amber link. Going into the 3 nesting boxes, sitting, then standing...
This started a few weeks ago with my hen. I noticed she was smelly so I took a look at her vent and noticed some cheese/egg looking substance crusted on/around her vent. I cleaned it off and after learning about vent gleet I applied anti-fungal cream. She was fine for a while but now it has come...
I have a three year old Old English Bantam hen - the photo of her I've attached is for reference but not from today - who started laying again last week after a several month pause. Her last egg was the day before yesterday and was intact but had a rough shell. Yesterday she went into her...
I’m dealing with our first prolapse and we’re on day 3. She still seems fine except for the prolapse (perky, wanting food, etc). I’ve been doing all the stuff: soak. Epsom. Sugar. Hydrocortisone. Vetricyn. It will stay in a bit longer now, but it still pops out when she poops. It was initially...
This would have been her very first egg. Completely egg bound and prolapsed. Couldn’t find any hole from which to remove egg (soft shell) so I cut it out.
Now I can’t tell what remaining parts are egg stuffs and what parts are her oviduct. Got her cleaned up as much as possible and tried to...
so basically my mother acquired a baby chicken from a poultry shop because they did not want it, i don’t know the exact breed but im sure they’re a little bit older or around 2 weeks old due to the feathers. i have never owned a chick before so this is a first time experience. as for daily care...
I have a 7-8 day old chicken that seems to be smaller than the rest of the bunch. She is very uncoordinated and seems to zone out and stand still for up to 2 minutes often not aware of her surrounding and roams from the group and her mother. She has pasty butt that we are cleaning but it looks...
Hello,
I'm writing this on behalf of my brother, who is very new to raising backyard chickens (he caught the fever from me!). Yesterday, his 6 year old daughter ran into the house with chicken blood all over her, panicking. My brother immediately ran out to find the injured chicken: a young BO...
How do I prevent this from happening again?
I’ll post photos when I get them, but my spouse just called to say he found our Welsummer (one of seven in a mixed-breed flock) deceased not more than an hour after I checked on them before leaving for work.
She was 15 months old and one of two...
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So me and my girlfriend have recently hatched some corturnix quail from some store bought eggs, all the chicks seem okay however I noticed this on one of the little guys and it looks like a prolapse to me, what do you guys think? And if so what can I do about it?
I have a nine-month-old hen with a huge prolapse. Every time I push it back inside, she strains and pushes it back out. I felt for stuck egg - nothing. I've been putting zinc oxide on it regularly to try to dry it out. I've been attempting to treat it like this for four days but it's just...
This poult unfortunately came down with vent gleet quite young. I finished treating that about a month ago, but her vent has kept needing constant applications of vaseline or neosporin otherwise it gets crusty/scabby.
I realized I don't know what a "healthy" vent is supposed to look...
My laying rescue pekin has a pretty swollen, irritated vent and I haven’t been able to find help anywhere else. She is still laying and acting relatively normal although she’s getting a little bit slower now that we are on day 3 and it isn’t looking any better. I don’t see any discharge & it...