sick 1+ year old hen

  1. C

    Sick chicken, wont get up

    Hello, Yesterday I found one of my hens laying in the coop and didnt seem to move, with like 85 degrees. I moved her inside the coop and gave her water while she layed down again. She was dehydrated and did drink a lot. (No idea how long she layd down outside) sinds than I moved her in a crate...
  2. S

    Mouth breathing chicken not heat related

    Hi all, I have a one year hen who has been mouth breathing constantly. At first we thought it was heat related but she mouth breaths all day and night and the weather has been in the 70s. Her comb is maybe slightly paler than normal but she has been eating, drinking, sleeping, laying eggs and...
  3. C

    Ex battery hen has diarrhoea and sleeps all day

    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...
  4. Hemphia

    Chicken is lethargic, poop abnormal, not eating or drinking, don’t think egg bound either

    Please HELP......Flower is a 1 year old Lavender Orphington. I acquired her a little over a week ago. She has been good since arrival but noted yesterday she was acting lethargic. She was sleeping under the coop even when I tossed out their garden grains and meal worms. I was able to rouse her...
  5. A

    Chicken Sick Need Help!

    My hen is about 4-6 years old and recently she has gotten increasingly disheveled and lethargic. This has been going on for about 3 days, her main symptoms are as follows --- Lethargy, muscle weakness, falling over, pale. I performed a vent exam and didn't find an egg stuck in her, I also took...
  6. H

    Chicken sneezing and making clicking sound

    3 Year Old Buff Orpington Chicken Hen Making quiet sneezes every so often, and when picked up, I hear a slight clicking noise coming from within her body. The sneezes she makes arent the loud or screeching ones but rather just her shaking her head and puffing air from her nostrils. No other...
  7. filmcmahon

    Lethargic Chicken with Dirty bottom

    Hi all. I have 11 month old silkie bantam hen that has all of a sudden had a decline in health. we feed her and her two flock mates a local farm store’s poultry blend and keep their water clean, and then give table scraps every so often. she was laying up until two days ago. she still scratches...
  8. I think my red has foul cholera! Help

    I think my red has foul cholera! Help

    I came home from an overnight stay away to find my one and a half year-old Rhode Island red with green and yellow diarrhea. Her comb is swollen and flopped over abnormally. she is struggling to breathe. She also has lots of saliva coming from her mouth. I have her in a quarantine cage away from...
  9. C

    Do chickens vomit?

    Hey everybody... All chickens were fine this morning... early this afternoon my wife saw one of our older (about 3 years old) ameraucanas chickens, was laying on the ground with her head down. She can get up and move if she wants but she clearly does not feel well. We moved her inside out of...
  10. Fluffyhens04

    Help

    I have a two year old buff Orpington named Sunny who had recently received a bad neck injury from my rooster. That issue has since gone away but now she’s acting lethargic and won’t eat or drink.... We have given her some meds but they don’t seem to be working and she seems to be getting weaker.
  11. Silling

    Bubbly poop?

    Hi. I know, another "is this poop normal?" thread. I've tried to find an answer myself, but I just can't decide. It would give me some peace of mind to hear others thoughts on the matter. The poop pictured here is from one of my 1 year old cochin crosses. Her name is Michelle. She free-ranges...
  12. C

    IS MY CHICKEN DYING OF OLD AGE OR SOMETHING WORSE?

    hello, one of my beloved rescue chickens that I have had for 12 months appears to by dying of old age, I rescued her when she was about 12-18 months old and have had her for nearly 12 months, she is an isa brown. she has had a heavenly life sine she came to liv with me on my hobby farm with her...
  13. kaperi

    Rattle breathing Hen that won't eat

    Hi there, i'm asking for your help. One of my Creamlegbar girls (named Plume, which translates fro Feather in french) she stopped laying for a couple days before I noticed. Then she seemed sick (wouldn't get out in the morning, etc) so I brought her inside. Noticed she wasn't eating or drinking...
  14. H

    Mycoplasma Synoviae - HELP please!

    I have a 3 year old Buff Orpington that has Mycoplasma Synoviae. (Note - she is also blind with Merrick's Disease) We don't have a specialty vet in our area, but our regular vet has been treating her. She has lanced the infected joint, as it was horribly hot with heat from the infection and...
  15. imneva

    Help sick chicken

    I am 99.9% Clostridium perfringens. Is what my Harriet is suffering from.I know she needs antibiotics. No vets here treat chickens. I have fish pen. Penicillin. she is a cream leg bar 1.5 years old how do I go about administering It to her? It is in pill form. I have divided kflex before to give...
  16. filmcmahon

    Silkie throwing up??

    hello! i have a year old silkie hen who just yesterday threw up some clear liquid. She did it again today. We are thinking it’s because two days ago we added some new pullets to her pen and maybe she is eating their chick feed? She layed yesterday if that helps. Has anyone had this before...
  17. B

    Are my chickens sick?

    I’m really worried about my chickens. Yesterday, Bok Bok almost got heat exhaustion but I took her inside. Her comb is still very pale the day after My other two chickens Hei Hei and Nugget have white spots on their combs. What does this mean? -I also gave them water with electrolytes
  18. 3

    Mystery Diagnosis: Chicken Edition - HELP ! ! !

    Greetings Backyard Chickens Community, This is my first time posting on here and reaching out directly for help, though I’ve read dozens of threads over the past little over a year of keeping hens in our small suburban backyard and all the minor follies that have accompanied that endeavor. I’m...
  19. JamminCats

    Egg bound?

    I have a one-year-old Rhode Island red that won’t leave the nesting boxes. She is really broody to begin with but even an hour after taking the eggs she seems lethargic and won’t leave the boxes. I brought her to the water dish and she drink then she slowly walked back to the nesting boxes...
  20. M

    Hen, 1.5 years old, very lethargic

    Update: Nugget did not make it through the night. I want to make sure I’m doing everything I can for my girl, Nugget. 1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) 1.5 years old, leghorn, thinner than others 2) What is the behavior...
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