LittlePigeon
Chirping
- Jul 24, 2016
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Hi everybody.
New chicken mama here. I got my girls around 10 weeks old and now they're about 26 weeks old (we're guessing. One of my orps just started laying.)
However, I've got one dark brahma that I'm concerned about. She started acting differently around 2 and a half weeks ago. She was getting bright green fecal material stuck on her rear feathers and she was keeping her head and neck very tight to her body. At that time, I was going to leave for vacation so I couldn't do much about it other than add corrid to the water.
When I got back, not much had changed. She didn't improve or worsen. So I decided to give her a dose of corrid straight into her mouth. It help immensely with the stool and she hasn't gotten any more stuck on herself. It looks much more normal now as well. She's still acting very uncomfortable though. She's got her head still held very close to her body and she doesn't try to interact with me as much as normal. My chickens are very friendly and she just tries to avoid me now. It also feels as if she's lost weight. I can feel her breastbone much more sharply. She eats and drinks fine. Maybe not as excessively as normal but... at this point I'm not sure what else I can do for her other than continuing to treat them all with corrid in the water.
It's been 4 days since I gave her the direct dose of corrid. I don't want to give her more because I'm paranoid about how much she should be getting of that stuff... but I'm just not seeing any improvement in her behavior...
Help???
New chicken mama here. I got my girls around 10 weeks old and now they're about 26 weeks old (we're guessing. One of my orps just started laying.)
However, I've got one dark brahma that I'm concerned about. She started acting differently around 2 and a half weeks ago. She was getting bright green fecal material stuck on her rear feathers and she was keeping her head and neck very tight to her body. At that time, I was going to leave for vacation so I couldn't do much about it other than add corrid to the water.
When I got back, not much had changed. She didn't improve or worsen. So I decided to give her a dose of corrid straight into her mouth. It help immensely with the stool and she hasn't gotten any more stuck on herself. It looks much more normal now as well. She's still acting very uncomfortable though. She's got her head still held very close to her body and she doesn't try to interact with me as much as normal. My chickens are very friendly and she just tries to avoid me now. It also feels as if she's lost weight. I can feel her breastbone much more sharply. She eats and drinks fine. Maybe not as excessively as normal but... at this point I'm not sure what else I can do for her other than continuing to treat them all with corrid in the water.
It's been 4 days since I gave her the direct dose of corrid. I don't want to give her more because I'm paranoid about how much she should be getting of that stuff... but I'm just not seeing any improvement in her behavior...
Help???