Gray Face

[DandyBanty23]

What can I do to fatten this girl up?
I dont know how old she is and she has had several issues since I purchase her second hand. Impacted feathers, eating my hair(showed eggbound symptoms for that), more eggbound symptoms that electrolytes seemed to fix. Now she is bone skinny and slow. Still shows interest in food. She is skin and bone and its concerning to say the least. I dont want her to suffer.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Has she been dewormed?

 

[DandyBanty23]

Has she been dewormed?

Ive never dewormed my birds, not with ivermectin. Theyve been given apple cider vinegar oregano and red pepper flakes. I dont think worms are the issue otherwise the whole flock would be having issues?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

What can I do to fatten this girl up?
I dont know how old she is and she has had several issues since I purchase her second hand. Impacted feathers, eating my hair(showed eggbound symptoms for that), more eggbound symptoms that electrolytes seemed to fix. Now she is bone skinny and slow. Still shows interest in food. She is skin and bone and its concerning to say the least. I dont want her to suffer.

Provide a nutritionally balanced poultry feed to eat. You can offer a small amount of extra protein a few times a week by giving some scrambled egg, sardines/mackerel or a bit of cooked beef (hamburger/liver). You don't want her to gain a lot of weight quickly nor put on fat which can be detrimental to their health.

Not all hens within a flock may have worms, it's all dependent of what a hen may ingest.

If you wish to deworm, I'd use Safeguard 10% Liquid Goat dewormer at a rate of 0.23ml per pound of weight given orally once daily for 5days in a row. This will take care of most worms poultry can have except for Tapeworms.

See that her crop is emptying, provide her with oyster shell free choice.

If she has symptoms of egg binding or having difficulty expelling an egg again, then give her 300mg Calcium Citrate+D3 once daily for 5 days.

Some hens may have some type of illness or reproductive disorder that causes them to become quite underweight, hopefully this is not the case, but as they age these things are a greater possibility.

 

[DandyBanty23]

Provide a nutritionally balanced poultry feed to eat. You can offer a small amount of extra protein a few times a week by giving some scrambled egg, sardines/mackerel or a bit of cooked beef (hamburger/liver). You don't want her to gain a lot of weight quickly nor put on fat which can be detrimental to their health.

Not all hens within a flock may have worms, it's all dependent of what a hen may ingest.

If you wish to deworm, I'd use Safeguard 10% Liquid Goat dewormer at a rate of 0.23ml per pound of weight given orally once daily for 5days in a row. This will take care of most worms poultry can have except for Tapeworms.

See that her crop is emptying, provide her with oyster shell free choice.

If she has symptoms of egg binding or having difficulty expelling an egg again, then give her 300mg Calcium Citrate+D3 once daily for 5 days.

Some hens may have some type of illness or reproductive disorder that causes them to become quite underweight, hopefully this is not the case, but as they age these things are a greater possibility.

Thank you for such a wealth of knowledge!!! Notes taken, I'll be applying this