sick chicken

  1. enchant_rose

    I need help...

    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...
  2. cvlcite

    PLEASE HELP! Lethargic chicken

    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...
  3. Chick_Crazy

    Egg Bound? Maybe Broken Egg?

    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...
  4. J

    Chicken wheezing and weak - gape worm or dehydration??

    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...
  5. C

    Possible Prolapsed Vent with Necrotic Mass

    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...
  6. S

    Sick baby chick! Baby chick closing eyes while standing, not moving around

    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...
  7. -Shade-

    Need help with sick chicken. Does anyone know what this is?

    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...
  8. L

    Hunched over, pale comb, shaky head, putting head behind wing... what's going on? Little 6 month old silkied serama hen

    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...
  9. C

    Silkies dropping like flies

    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...
  10. KerriChick

    My 1.5 year old Chicken is lethargic, has swollen crop?

    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...
  11. chrissyd79

    Red leghorn has been limping when she started molting but has no foot injury

    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...
  12. C

    Help! Sick chicken since August! Keeps laying down, losing weight, not laying, lethargic

    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...
  13. M

    Sick chicken now has mites??

    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...
  14. M

    Feed waste, to soak or not soak

    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...
  15. DClopein

    Hi, I am new here & a new chicken mama!

    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...
  16. L

    Chicken can’t close beak - please help!! Canker !

    Hi over the last few days I have noticed my 3 year old chicken can’t close her beak. I thought it was cross beak at first, but now i’m not sure. There is a smell coming from her mouth, but it smells like she has been eating poo, not how i imagine sour crop smells but it could be that. There’s a...
  17. Selka

    Eye infection

    One of our 7 week old araucanas started coughing, sneezing, had runny nose and inflamed eye and produced weird noise while peeping. She sat with closed eyes, did not run away from us like always. I separated her, gave her eye drops against infection, but it got worse. I decided to cull her...
  18. CityChickenLady24

    Possible Fowl Pox?

    Hey all, I have a chicken that seems fairly healthy all around, however today I noticed she was not wanting to move much. She will move a little but for the most part lay there. She isn't panting, her comb seems normal, I checked for a bound egg and I didn't find anything that indicated she was...
  19. agold23

    Treating a severe case of coccidiosis

    On August 2nd 2020 we noticed my silkie hen acting lethargic with her feathers puffed and not necessarily tending to her then 4ish week old chick. We treated the whole flock with Corid as we suspected coccidiosis and after 48 hours there were no improvements with her conditions so we stopped...
  20. agold23

    Possibly anemic hen due to mites ADVICE NEEDED ASAP

    I have a 1 y/o silkie hen who has really been having a rough go the past few days. I was handling her the other day, looking for mites and I couldn’t find any physically on her but when I got inside I found 3 crawling on my arm so I figured she (as well as the rest of my flock) must be...
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