Hi everyone,
Im hoping you can help me with your expertise. I recently purchased 4 chicks (2 day old BCM and 2 salmon faverolle, one day old and one week old) from a very reputable local breeder. I brought the chicks home, added them to the brooder with some other chicks that I had received...
Hello. My chicks seem to have very light symptoms of rales. The only thing noticeable is the crackling sound in their lungs. The last batch, I hatched wound up getting it too, and I don’t understand why it happened a second time around when everything has been completely disinfected heating has...
I recently purchased 5 ISA Browns from a nearby farm intending to integrate them into my existing flock of 18 birds, but after handling them, I’ve noticed a respiratory issue.
One of the five hens has a crackling sound when breathing (rales?) and occasional mucus from her beak but otherwise...
I noticed a bit over a week ago that my almost 7 year old Sussex hen (she will be 7 on 3/14) is breathing fast when she sleeps. I've been trying to diagnose the problem and provide treatment but I've had no avail. Read carefully as this isn't the normal "hen has labored breathing" case.
Her...
I have a mixed breed flock. There have been no new birds introduced lately...for probably 3 months. At the beginning of this month I moved. There was a huge chicken coop I purchased from a friend. It had been empty for months (5 or 6 months?) and the chickens they had were healthy. There are...
Hi all,
We are new to chicken diseases but have had chickens for over a year now. Here’s the situation. We own three chickens and we got three more recently. They are in the same pen now but are separate from each other. All of them came from the same local farmer. There is a cream leg bar in...
One of my five 8 month old pullets has had a sneeze that comes and goes, twice accompanied by rales. She is the only one and she has no other symptoms. Her eyes are clear. No discharge anywhere. She always has a good appetite, is active, scratching, dust bathing, preening and yelling at me...