chickens dying daily! HELP!!!!

[Eepster]

Maybe it drinks from your pond, too. It could be parasites as well.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Have you been spraying the trees over the past few years that you had chickens? Changed chemicals?

 

[jennfurtrombly]

I would be on either the pond being contaminated or this "spraying" you're talking about. What kind of chemical are you using? Have you used it in the past or was this the one time you've sprayed?

 

[casportpony]

I'd get that water tested.

-Kathy

 

[thecityman]

Thanks so much for your concern. The fruit tree spray is just the spectricide once and done that you buy at lowe's and I mix it according to manufacturers suggestion. I have used it before but must admit to having used it a little more this year due to increase in Japanese beetle pressure on fruit trees this year. But I've not used more than is recommended on label.

I really can't think of anything I've done this year that I haven't done in the past, but my pond is lower than its ever been and water very well could be stagnant and/or problematic, so I'd say that is a good guess. I have another chicken that I'm quite sure is dying so I will have it necropsied asap if it does!

Again, thanks for all your concerns and efforts to help.

 

[Eepster]

If it is the spray, you may want to fence off the fruit trees to prevent any more chickens from dying. If you can, you should isolate that sick chicken just in case it is a disease.

 

[casportpony]

Both opossums and chickens will eat fruit and bugs that have fallen off the trees you sprayed, so maybe?

-Kathy

 

[tridentk9]

Along with the other great suggestions- is there an increase of algae in the pond? Stagnant or slow moving water, hot weather-on the west coast I think blue green algae. Several dogs a year die by swimming in bad water. If it's an algae bloom, you can have some good areas, some bad. But you can't tell by looking.

Good luck.

 

[casportpony]

I'd start making some phone calls. Dept of Ag, State vet, Fish and Game, etc.

-Kathy

 

[Eepster]

If you do have algae you can minimize it by getting some koi fish. They eat algae.