sick chicken

I have a black australorp hen who I found standing where my chickens hang out off to the side with her eyes closed and sort of puffed up feathers. She’s one of our less friendly chickens, and I went to pet her and she just stood there. Usually she’d run off or move away. Then, when I threw some...

That's an upclose picture of her crop, she isn't really tired or anything? Eating normally, but her crop feels kinda big?

I was just given a chick from a relative who they said it was sick, the chick has cream white eyes, isn’t responding to noise, very small, thin legs and has odd feathers?? (The flight feathers are very long but the Inner feathers are short). I assume she’s blind and deaf but I want to make sure...

Big Black is 4-6 years old. May 1st I found her in the nesting box breathing weird and her mouth looked wet. I removed her and isolated her. I gave her food and water, she was not interested. I checked to see if she had sour croup and I was unable to tell. To be safe, I gave her monistat 3 twice...

Hi! I’ve got an almost 2 year old hen who’s usually our most eager and voracious about food now refusing food :( she’s only eaten a few bites a day and it’s just so different from her usual behaviour. Her crop wasn’t emptying out for a few days but I think it’s a little better now. She hasn’t...

Hello BYC. I have a problem... I’ve had this hen who seemed a little “sick” for a while. She’s had a really pasty butt, and seemed to be getting picked on by the others. At first I wasn’t too worried about it, but today she started collapsing and sitting in an odd way. I think it might be egg...

Hello I’m sorry but please can anyone help me out? I have a chicken (I’ve been told she’s a red sex link and I don’t know her age) and today when I got home I let her out of the run and into my yard (which is mostly brick) and she went to go scratch at a corner with some dirt. I go inside for an...

So recently I had a Rhode Island Red get a vent prolapse. I had never dealt with it before, but after two weeks of treatment she was back to her usual self! I was so excited. But then, two days after I put her back with the flock, she tried to lay an egg. And it was a soft shelled. I noticed she...

Today was an unusually hot day and when I went to go check on my hens a lot of them had their wings out and were slightly overheating. They were hot but not anything overly dramatic except for one. This is a video of the chicken after I brought it inside to try to figure out what could be the...

Hello everyone, I've been a long time lurker and am relatively new to backyard chickens. I've had my flock for a year and a half (8 birds, with 9 chicks I am integrating in next week if things go well). I have a Green Queen who seems to have a prolapsed vent with a necrotic mass. My bird's...

Hello there, we got baby chicks yesterday from a market, and the next day one of the four baby chicks who was doing fine yesterday is standing up and closing its eyes and isn’t moving around, the other chicks seem completely fine just eating and chirping. This one is just standing there and...

One of our neighbors entrusted us with a sick chicken that she believed had a bad ear infection. Her ears were so swollen that she couldn't open her eyes and she had mucus crusted all over her face. We've had her with us for about 2 months and have tried many remedies and antibiotics including...

My little silkied serama has been showing concerning signs. I found her today with her head tucked into her wing and not responding when I called out to her. I grabbed her and brought her inside. The symptoms she's showing currently: - shaking head tilted to one side - hunched over -fluffed up...

My flock consists of a variety of different breeds. However in the past month I have lost 3 silkies with a 4th on the way. Its the same pattern of events. The bird will start to show signs of weakness and can't keep up with the rest of the flock yet tries like hell (slow movements, easily...

Brownie is a 1.5 yr old Buckeye who has always had pasty butt issues. She looks terrible in general right now because she is dead smack in the middle of a full molt, which makes this extra worse because I have to handle her. She is not standing well, and is very lethargic. Usually she is the...

My red leghor, Princess Lay A is 18 months old and started molting about a month ago. A couple of weeks ago she stopped wanting to go outside and doesn’t perch at night. She creeps slowly and limps but I can’t find any injuries on her feet. She eats and drinks. The past couple of days I’ve...

A little backstory: I have a Lavender Orpington hen that was born June 2019. She was vaccinated for Mereks by the hatchery before being shipped. On September 2020 she was attacked by a wild animal and survived bites on her back and neck. With a lot of TLC, she was better and acting normal with...

I have had a chicken in quarantine for a couple of weeks now due to an illness and possible infection. She was treated for coccidia and also given amoxicillin (today is her last dose). She was very lethargic and not eating for most of this time and definitely not laying she has turned a corner...

So my chickens have been on scratch and peck whole grain feeds since a day old and have refused pellets since the beginning. I cannot afford the massive amount of waste they are producing anymore. It’s to the point in which I am going through 50 lbs of feed for 9 birds in a month. NOT GOOD...

Hello. :frowI am Dana. 😃 I am excited to be here. A little about my story so far.... I got my first chicks earlier this year from TS, back when they had their Chick Days & I ended up coming home with their minimum of 4. One turned out to be a Roo & I decided to find him a new home cus I didn't...