undiagnosed illness

  1. B

    11 wk Marans pullet is not walking correctly, weak, standing on legs with neck stretched out forward.

    - No visible mites, lice, eggs, etc. - No respiratory symptoms such as rattles or gasping, foamy eyes, watery eyes or nose, any pus visible. - Crop appears normal. - No visible injuries. She is in quarantine, and ate an egg yolk with banana this afternoon but has been reluctant to drink her...
  2. Shadrach

    Do your hens go off their usual feed when they moult?

    For a great many chicken health topics we get our information from research done by or with the chicken egg and meat producing companies. Most of the hens I know of that go through a particularly heavy moult do so in their second year and most battery hens are killed at this age because egg...
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