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  1. K

    Help! Chicken diarrhea!

    Hi everyone! I’m new to owning chickens and new to the forum. My girls are 6 months old were great up until 2 days ago when they were just a little more lethargic. I’m in Southern California and it’s been hot (they have shade, a fan, a mister, frozen treats) and I attributed it to it just...
  2. J

    Deathly ill chicken. Please help!

    My hen is around 3-4 years of age, and is very sick. Her symptoms include lethargy, floppy shrunken purple comb, green diarrhea (as shown in second image), neck spasms/twitches, and consistent throwing up liquid when she bends over. The nearby vet clinic open until September. We might put her...
  3. teamtmo

    Foaming from Eyes. HELP!

    * UPDATE * I gave her a bath and rinsed her eye under the running faucet. Upon further inspection, she seems to have a lump or bump in front of her affected eye that seems to possibly irritating her affected eye. Could a spider bite or mosquito bite have caused this too? We have black widows in...
  4. C

    Water Belly or Egg Bound?

    We have a barred rock hen that just this morning wasn’t moving around as much as usual. She seems to keep having trouble laying an egg, so we assumed she was egg bound and have been soaking her in a warm Epsom salt bath for 20 minutes, applied oil to the vent area, and fed her some extra...
  5. lizcourt

    Dead chicken

    If you guys saw my last post a few weeks ago, you know I just started raising chickens. This morning I went to go feed and water my chickens before work and I found one of my older ones dead. Shes anywhere from a year to a year and a half. My coop is definitely not predator proof 100% but there...
  6. N

    Duck sick?

    I recently acquired some ducks from someone who was moving away. I notices one was missing from the little flock and went out searching. I found her on her back with one leg stuck in the air. Breathing but not moving much. I gathered her up and brought her in. She didn't fight me but I usually...
  7. Reiki Rooster

    Turkey Healing from mites now lethargic

    I have a flock of turkeys, 2 brothers are the Tom’s, 1 of them had a severe mite infestation, no one else had mites but I treated everyone. My problem Tom has been mite free for 2 weeks now but he is just becoming more and more lethargic. I see zero wounds, none of the other turkeys show any...
  8. AvianAva

    Sick Rooster please help!

    Hello I am in need of help as soon as I can get it! My favorite Rooster Zelda, (<--it's a long story) has a history of getting respiratory diseases in the past but recently despite giving him respiratory meds often his mouth still hangs open. I have checked the inside of his mouth and there are...
  9. P

    Help! Pullet making weird noise and coughing/sneezing(??)

    https://vimeo.com/990948407?share=copy Hi everyone. As you can see from the video, this pullet started making this weird noise this morning and also coughing or sneezing, I can’t really tell which. Happened overnight. She was fine yesterday and even ran around the yarn this morning. Two other...
  10. S

    Abnormal Behavior. Chicken spread out on top of sick one in nesting box.

    One of our chickens (a frizzle) has no feathers and tends to hide out in the nesting box. For the past week, one of the healthy birds has been laying on top of her, wings and tail completely spread out to cover her. They are the same age and have been raised together since day one. I’ve attached...
  11. RossAcres

    COVID means chores for me...

    So my mother tested positive for COVID yesterday. I decided to take a test to make sure I didn't get it from her since she may have had it for a few days before she got tested. Well, I saw the very faint red line, so I guess I have it :he My mom is a little bit of an anxious person and wants me...
  12. edgy6ellie

    Sick hen jerking head

    Help! My favourite hen is really sick, shes not eating and is doing this jerking with her head. Shes sounds very wheezy aswell! For video
  13. B

    My hen is not herself, pinky orange discharge coming out of vent

    Hi everyone, I’m a new chicken keeper and I am panicking as my 4 month old white Sussex hen isn’t herself tonight. She was fine all day and when I went to let her out the run for her evening walk around the garden she was all puffed up. She had a slow walk around and then I saw pinky/orange...
  14. A

    Sick chicken? Please help

    A few days ago, one of my hens started brooding. This didn't surprise me, because I read heat could induce this behavior. She was bullying the other hens out of the nesting box, so I decided to move her. Because it was so hot, I did not want to isolate her in the brooder that was outside (I...
  15. M

    Her conditions are getting very concerning

    Ok so in my last thread i posted about Pipi chocking which maybe was something else. Her conditions are getting concerning guys i donno what to do. I DON'T want her to die. As you can see she does that mouth opening thing like she can't breath. Also she seems to have excessive saliva. Even...
  16. Kiwi_The__arnevelder

    Is my new silkie sick?

    Hello, i recently bought this cute silkie hen last night. Today i was getting her used to me and she seemed pretty tamed but i never saw her run. I realised her poop was very reddish orange and i’m just really worried she might be sick? or is it the new environment? perhaps coccidia? She seems...
  17. Jajanelle

    Possibly blind rooster, sick?

    Hello everyone m, My young rooster Rambo seems to have an eye that seems a little gray, which leads me to believe that eye might be blind. He sometimes let that eye closed, or like this morning, it looks like his eyelids are sticky and stuck together (1st picture). That eye always looks like...
  18. S

    Sick chicks

    I bought 9 new chicks (approx 4 weeks -6 weeks old) from a local farm. 2 of the 9 didn’t make it after the first and second night. One I tried treating but then noticed a little dab of blood in the stool. Contacted the farm and they provided me with Corid. (New chickens are in my inside...
  19. SrirachaSpice

    2 Year Old Barred Rock Hen Losing Her Voice?

    My 2yo barred rock Pepper appears to be losing her voice as of yesterday. She normally is quite vocal and has a clear cluck/scream but today she is quieter and her sounds seem more garbled and strained. Her comb is nice and red, she is running and flapping and digging with all her normal...
  20. Tarynj

    Poopy butt

    My hens seem to be have something plaguing them over time. This is the second hen that has a poppy butt for a while and then becomes lethargic. We ended up culling the other after an injury from a neighbors dog so unsure how she would have turned out- this was over a month ago and no one has...
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