hkeibard
Songster
Hi - Help!
Yesterday I saw what looked like a tiny pool of watery blood in the run. I didn't know who did it.
This morning I found more blood in the coop. One spot seemed to be the same watery blood, the other spot was poop with blood in it. Photos attached.
There are poop boards under the roost and other than maybe one or two poops that seemed to have a little reddish tint to them over the past couple of weeks, I haven't seen anything else abnormal like this on the poop boards. I have been trying to visually inspect for worms but I can't say I've visibly seen any.
I think it's my Welsummer, Mary Jane. Current photo attached.
She is one year old this month (52 weeks on October 25th).
In the summer she got hit the hardest with fowl pox but recovered very nicely to go back to form and really become the nicest looking of my 8 bird flock. But a few weeks ago her looks really went down hill with lots of lost feathers, particularly on the neck. Everyone was molting to some extent (feathers every where) but she really took a hard hit. I've been separately upping her protein with some supplemental tuna fish. Her vent seems normal but she hasn't laid since about mid September, maybe longer. Her feathers are starting to come back though. However, she is really down on weight, going from pleasantly plump to rather skinny.
Behavior wise she is not lethargic at all. She tends to keep separate from the other birds, but she has been doing that since I got her. She's just a loner oddball. She eats the tuna fish voraciously and won a tug of war with another hen over a baby/tiny snake they found the other day. She can run like the devil and hop like a bunny.
Should I treat her / the flock for worms? I was thinking of getting some Safeguard but the worming thing is confusing to me still.
Might it be something else?
Yesterday I saw what looked like a tiny pool of watery blood in the run. I didn't know who did it.
This morning I found more blood in the coop. One spot seemed to be the same watery blood, the other spot was poop with blood in it. Photos attached.
There are poop boards under the roost and other than maybe one or two poops that seemed to have a little reddish tint to them over the past couple of weeks, I haven't seen anything else abnormal like this on the poop boards. I have been trying to visually inspect for worms but I can't say I've visibly seen any.
I think it's my Welsummer, Mary Jane. Current photo attached.
She is one year old this month (52 weeks on October 25th).
In the summer she got hit the hardest with fowl pox but recovered very nicely to go back to form and really become the nicest looking of my 8 bird flock. But a few weeks ago her looks really went down hill with lots of lost feathers, particularly on the neck. Everyone was molting to some extent (feathers every where) but she really took a hard hit. I've been separately upping her protein with some supplemental tuna fish. Her vent seems normal but she hasn't laid since about mid September, maybe longer. Her feathers are starting to come back though. However, she is really down on weight, going from pleasantly plump to rather skinny.
Behavior wise she is not lethargic at all. She tends to keep separate from the other birds, but she has been doing that since I got her. She's just a loner oddball. She eats the tuna fish voraciously and won a tug of war with another hen over a baby/tiny snake they found the other day. She can run like the devil and hop like a bunny.
Should I treat her / the flock for worms? I was thinking of getting some Safeguard but the worming thing is confusing to me still.
Might it be something else?
