sick bay

  1. windsweptzz

    Hello!

    I am a newbie learning and have been raising chickens for 1-1/2 years and have two flocks integrated now from 1-day-old peeps straight from hatcheries. My second batch are now laying! I have 19 hens and 2 roosters. It has been an adventure from building the coop and run, to adding on a sick bay...
  2. Kaitlin H

    Sick Bay Advice Needed

    I have an 18 month old Easter Egger who has been having diarrhea the last few days. She’s also had a bit of a dirty bottom & has been losing feathers around her vent since late August. I’ve checked several times for mites/lice and found nothing. I took a fecal sample to the vet today and it was...
  3. M

    Multiple ailments sick bay

    OK. So in sick Bay today are: Olive Egger "Sweet Olive" and Wellsummer cross "Big Red", aka "mean little heifer". Olive was put in sick bay yesterday and we immediately started treatment. She also has a respiratory infection and is treated with amoxicilline for that. Both have vent gleet. Olive...
  4. J

    Missing feathers above tail

    Hi all, Could you please help out a worried chicken mom?! I have two, two-year old, cream legbar hens (sisters). They've don't have anti-social temperaments, have been laying eggs like crazy, seem healthy in every other way but this: I noticed today that one of my girls is featherless and raw...
  5. Julias Tower

    Julias Tower

    Julia is our black bantam Cochin Frizzle hen. She is a sassy 18 month old with an attitude. We named her for Julia Child. Ever since March she has been losing feathers - first on her head then on her wings now on her breast. I have checked her for lice and mites but found none - I treated the...
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