- May 11, 2010
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We have a flock of four, and one of the girls is clearly not well, our barred rock. Her symptoms are:
Lethargic
Pale comb
Eats and drinks, but very little and not robustly. She seems to be trying to "chew" the kernels in her feed, which obviously won't work
If she isn't fed separately she isn't getting anything, she's just too slow right now. Normally, she's 2nd in the order.
No sour smell, and her crop doesn't seem to be bulging
I was worried she was egg bound, so I took her inside and soaked her in the sink for a while and applied Vaseline to her vent (as she was lubed, I also took the oportunity to feel inside, and I met no resistance, but I am not at all sure I felt far enough up or did it right)
Observing her, I've seen her leave urine but not droppings, and no blood either way. I inspected her for mites and external parasites, and found none.
The other three hens all seem very healthy, so I don't think it's anything that's very communicable.
On the advice of our feed store, we put some probiotics in the feed and we're preparing to put ornacycline in the water, as he feels its a digestive tract issue.
Help!
EDIT- My problem seems identical to the one here (minus the droppings description):
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5695745
Her eyes are yellow, but I didn't think anything of that (pretty new to chickens, I guess I thought maybe that was a normal color?)
That's exactly what my chicken is looking like right now.
Lethargic
Pale comb
Eats and drinks, but very little and not robustly. She seems to be trying to "chew" the kernels in her feed, which obviously won't work
If she isn't fed separately she isn't getting anything, she's just too slow right now. Normally, she's 2nd in the order.
No sour smell, and her crop doesn't seem to be bulging
I was worried she was egg bound, so I took her inside and soaked her in the sink for a while and applied Vaseline to her vent (as she was lubed, I also took the oportunity to feel inside, and I met no resistance, but I am not at all sure I felt far enough up or did it right)
Observing her, I've seen her leave urine but not droppings, and no blood either way. I inspected her for mites and external parasites, and found none.
The other three hens all seem very healthy, so I don't think it's anything that's very communicable.
On the advice of our feed store, we put some probiotics in the feed and we're preparing to put ornacycline in the water, as he feels its a digestive tract issue.
Help!
EDIT- My problem seems identical to the one here (minus the droppings description):
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5695745
Her eyes are yellow, but I didn't think anything of that (pretty new to chickens, I guess I thought maybe that was a normal color?)
That's exactly what my chicken is looking like right now.
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