sick hen

  1. President_ChickenGirl

    Traumatic Chicken Experience

    Ok so this is the first time I had to deal with flystrike. My hen was sick with a tumor, and when I came back from a week-long vacation, she had gone downhill very quickly. The next night, she was sleeping in the run (which is not normal). Some of her back tail feathers were missing and so I...
  2. H

    Hen pale, broody for to long, won’t eat or drink

    Help please, anything I can try? Just gave sugar water. Yesterday I noticed how pale she was. She has been broody for weeks, I forget exactly how long and I just noticed this past week that we have red mites in the coop. I think between the heat and being broody for so long, therefore neglecting...
  3. blasttribe

    Help- Is my chicken egg bound?

    I have a hen who was kind of walking hunched over and was trying to eat and drink. She was successful in eating and drinking but she kept walking around the coop hunched over and slower than normal. Her comb and eyes are normal and she's not breathing heavily. But her entire backside under her...
  4. The chicken nurd

    Possible sick hen

    Hey everyone I have one hen who has feathers missing but I’m not sure if she’s getting picked on or something else Is going on I noticed this a few weeks ago but didn’t think anything of it at first because she was acting fine and while she’s still acting normal it does look like it’s gotten a...
  5. H

    Possible egg bound

    Hello everyone I have an issue with one of my Easter Egger hens. She breathes with a rattle sound. I don’t really think she eats as much as she should. I haven’t noticed her eggs but I do have a lot of chickens so I wouldn’t be sure which one is hers or not. She doesn’t roam the property as much...
  6. Cocohens

    Sick chicken help!

    Hi all, Please help! My oldest chicken (3.5 years) is a bit off. She’s had very poo-y feathers around her vent (I have bathed her and cleaned her up) she also has pink on her legs and slightly purple under feet. It’s not bumblefoot because they aren’t swollen and no little black marks or...
  7. lavendermarie

    Chicken acting sick

    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...
  8. J

    Help with Sick Isa Brown

    My Isa Brown hen, Sugar is 2 1/2 years old. I have one other hen, also a 2 1/2 year old Isa. They sleep in a protected coop at night and free range during the day. Six months ago Sugar molted, stopped laying and never restarted. Over the last couple of months occasionally, she would lay an egg...
  9. AngelinaThePekin8

    8 year old hen with sour crop? I need help treating it.

    So I noticed today that one of my oldest hens has a "bulging" crop and won't eat but drinks a lot of water. I have read this article a few times already. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/how-to-treat-sour-crop-and-impacted-crop-and-how-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/ I...
  10. ChickenMomma2019

    URGENT!! POSSIBLE EGG BOUND HEN???

    Help! My 3 year old RIR is sick! We have no idea what she is sick with! She has been eating and drinking but has been laying down a lot and her comb is a very pale color. She also has odd poop and keeps repeatedly getting a poopy butt. Does anyone know what she is sick with and what I should do...
  11. missmaqs

    Goopy Eye & Vomit??

    Hi I have one hen in my flock of 14 who I got about two weeks ago. I noticed at the beginning of the week she regurgitated/vomited 1x a night - she would do it just one time and then act totally fine? Tonight I was looking at her and one of her eyes was just a little goopy and her beak looked a...
  12. Snowy Canadian

    Sick chicken having extreme trouble passing food, being tube fed, Help!

    Hello, I have a sick hen who went downhill due to un untreated case of scaly leg mites. I didn't realize anything was wrong until one day she was just on the ground in the corner, she could barely walk, and had stopped eating. By the time I realized what was wrong with her, and started treating...
  13. Lyndssxo08

    Hen lethargic and passed pink fatty mass?

    Good morning everyone, I have a hen Penelope that has been known to prolapse over the last couple years (she’s around 3 1/2 years old). Normally I have not had any trouble fixing the prolapse every time and she has always seem normal and healthy other than that. Earlier this week she wasn’t...
  14. K

    Chicken with pasty butt! Need help with antibiotics dosage!

    My chicken Lucy, has a pasty butt. Other chickens from the flock died because of it. So, I gave her 0.6cc of antibiotics (Liquamycin) because she weighed 6 pounds. Is that the right amount? Also, when should I give it to her again? I am so lost, I researched and found a million different dosage...
  15. Greystone farm

    Starving hen with mass in abdomen

    My hen, Rhody, has a hard and distended abdomen. My vet checked her out shortly afterwards and prescribed her some meds. A few days later, I left to vacation at my cottage and left some reliable family taking care of Rhody. Unfortunately, she has stopped eating and drinking and has become very...
  16. D

    SICK CHICKEN HELP!!!!!!

    Have a hen just under a year she is a golden lace. Was going out to shut the coop the other night (3 days ago) and noticed that she was laying on the ground level which is rare at night they usually sleep on top together (have 3 chickens total). Let her be that night and figured it was nothing...
  17. F

    Water belly, drained but still acting lethargic

    Hey! I have a maybe 3 year old chicken that has been constantly getting water belly. My husband and I have drained it over a 6 month period probably 3 times now. This last time she was much fuller and it seems that she isn’t recovering as “fast” as she normally did. She’s been hiding a lot, and...
  18. Futrmakr

    I wonder if it's my yard?

    I am just at a loss at this point. I am on my 4th flock. I kept losing adult chickens to what I thought was Cocc. They were freeranged and sleep in coop at night. So for the new group, I decided they would be confined, just in case they kept getting into something out on our land. I decided to...
  19. A

    Advice Please….Young hen vent pulsating and red

    My serama hen had pasty butt so I soaked her bottom in warm water and epsom salt, after drying her off I noticed something hanging out of her butt I pulled it out gently and was soft shell I increased her calcium intake—she was eating layer feed and had access to oyster shell all the time...
  20. T

    **Lethargic hen with NO BALANCE, low appetite

    Hi everybody. I have a 6-7 month old Black Australorp hen, she is really sweet and friendly with us and got sick suddenly. She gets bullied a lot by the other hens and a few days ago when we saw her a little weak, we brought her inside to eat and drink. Right now she is inside in a cage. She...
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