virus

Our flock of 4 ducks was taken down to 3 this morning. Our sweet welsh harlequin Moa seemingly succumbed to duck viral enteritis (DVE). I'm super worried about my other 3 ducks as they share all the same water and food, and DVE is contagious. Although google says there is no cure for DVE once...

one day our hen went from lethargic and standing with droopy comb to no activity, droopy and pale comb, neither eating or drinking. Virus?

I’ve been treating a polish chick for Coccidia and I am noticing a thiamine deficiency. The chick isn’t walking normally and is only laying down and when he does it looks like as if only one leg works. No, he doesn’t have any injury. I’ve seen this happen to a couple of my other chicks that...

Rhode Island Red growing like a weed. 3.5 weeks now. Good natured. No issues but noticed this little bump. It's hard, located under bottom beak like where wattle would grow and on one side, her left, only. Does not ooze, although I touched, bot squeezed. Could not be dry Fowl Pox from what I've...

I noticed today one of my 5 chickens has spots on her face and comb. I searched on the net and have determined she has fowl pox. She is still eating, acting normal and laying as normal. The flock is a little over a year old. The other 4 are not showing symptoms. I have questions: 1) What do you...

I've had a fowl pox outbreak I've been dealing with for the last 5 weeks. The chick that was originally infected was hatched/being raised by a broody hen with 5 other siblings. The family has been quarantined from the rest of the flock. All of the chicks developed lesions except, strangely...

I am a new duck owner and 10 days ago collected 5 Indian runner ducks of different ages from 3 weeks - 12 weeks old to keep as pets. 6 days after collecting them the smallest one started to become lethargic, floppy, unable to walk upright, had a runny nose, watery diarrhoea and breathing...

Please help my indoor chickens..... They have black spots growth or wound on their feet .... been placing betadine and also oregano extract on their feet... not only on their feet there seems to have white spot on their comb / wattle. Multiple chickens involved. 2 pullet 5 month old, 3 2month...

Hi all, I currently have 5 week old SLW pullets and a few 4 week old Easter Eggers I got from TSC. 4 days ago now, I had two rapidly die around the same time as each other but all others (12 were left) were fine. No bloody stool, but did notice they were all maybe a little more lethargic...

Does anyone know how the chickens end up with this disease and how it spreads? My friend got some polish breeds a year ago and she’s lost 3 roosters and now a few hens have tested positive for it. These chickens and roosters are only a year and half old. Some are a bit younger.

I love my two EEs; this won’t change a thing about them to me. But.. I always thought that it was natural thing, a gene mutation, something. I was looking up Crested Cream Legbars because I’m a chicken math victim, and in the related searches was ‘are blue chicken eggs natural.’ I realized I...

Hi we have been traveling since the beginning of February till now from Washington State from before the first Corona BS happened there and are now in Baja Mexico for a funeral but had to keep our birds with someone in Santa Rosa, CA because of the thirty day quarentine rules for birds in and...

hello byc! we have 6 hens that are all about 30 ish weeks old and laying. one of our colombians, ellie, has been having a rough winter. first, she caught her comb on a fence while free ranging then healed (she was at the top of the pecking order now she’s probably somewhere at the bottom) then...

I first noticed tiny black spots on my exchequer leghorn’s comb about a month ago, but didn’t think much of it because they’re acting normal otherwise. When I looked closely today, I noticed the spots have spread a little and the rooster has them too (photos attached). I’m really hoping...

We just noticed this morning and it couldn't have been going on more than a few days. Her other eye seems fine, and she is acting totally normal. I don't notice anything weird with any of the other chickens either. I tried looking up exactly what it was but couldn't find any pictures that looked...

So, you’ve just purchased some POL pullets, or rescued a small flock of somebody’s unwanted chickens. You can’t just throw them in with your current flock because that could be disastrous without a proper quarantine before integration or even attempting see but don’t touch. So… you keep them...

Hi all: I found one post from a couple of years ago about this, but I wanted to start a fresh thread to see if anyone else has had any luck (or any feedback at all) about using the human anti-viral drug, Valtrex (or Valocyclovir) for Marek's? My sweet little EE pullet - she's maybe 5 months-...

Hello! I'm new to the forum and being a chicken mom, so my inexperience is causing me a lot of distress with my first two feathered children! I have two silver sebright sisters (about 1lb, 9 months old). I'm not even sure where to start with my problems... one bird, Beep, started limping a few...

My flock consists of 1 silkie rooster, 1 silkie, 3 baby silkies, 1 lohmann brown, 2 barred rocks, 1 campine, 2 cucko marans. 1 silkie and 1 maran are raising the 2 baby chicks in my backyard. While the other chick is being raised by me. Anyways so I have a coop and a run for them to go outside...

I wokw up this morning to one of my month old ducklings not being able to walk. He can't even spread his toes or stand. He just lies down and TRIES to chirp but nothing comes out. His head is also very wobbly, he can't keep jia head up and honestly kind of looks drunk with a weird head roll. He...