- May 10, 2010
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Hi guys,
I've been keeping hens for about 12 years and NEVER had anything like this happen before. I had one hen with a bloody bottom, swollen, infected back end about 2months ago.
I bathed her with antibacterial stuff, salt baths, and the Vet gave antibiotics for the generalised infection. She looked a bit droopy for a few days, but was fine.
I put her back in with the others about three weeks ago and now there are four more with the same condition, and the original hen has it back too!
When I discovered her problem originally, I treated the whole shed for lice/mites etc. I also treated each hen for lice, they didn't seem to have a big load, but they all seemed to be sorted in the treatment-nothing left.
Is there anything else you guys can think of that could be causing it? I keep em on straw, and have done all winter. It never gets VERY dirty, I cleam em regularly.
The hens seem to be fine in themselves, is it worth me treating them again for lice? Or should I be looking for something else?
Their diet is layers pellets, corn, veg peelings/scraps occasionally, and fresh weeds from the garden. They cannot freerange bacause our place isn't safe for them to do so.
HELP! PLEASE!
Zarla
I've been keeping hens for about 12 years and NEVER had anything like this happen before. I had one hen with a bloody bottom, swollen, infected back end about 2months ago.
I bathed her with antibacterial stuff, salt baths, and the Vet gave antibiotics for the generalised infection. She looked a bit droopy for a few days, but was fine.
I put her back in with the others about three weeks ago and now there are four more with the same condition, and the original hen has it back too!
When I discovered her problem originally, I treated the whole shed for lice/mites etc. I also treated each hen for lice, they didn't seem to have a big load, but they all seemed to be sorted in the treatment-nothing left.
Is there anything else you guys can think of that could be causing it? I keep em on straw, and have done all winter. It never gets VERY dirty, I cleam em regularly.
The hens seem to be fine in themselves, is it worth me treating them again for lice? Or should I be looking for something else?
Their diet is layers pellets, corn, veg peelings/scraps occasionally, and fresh weeds from the garden. They cannot freerange bacause our place isn't safe for them to do so.
HELP! PLEASE!
Zarla