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Dpennell

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I've been raising chickens for several years now but still have questions concerning their health. I have two hens with drooping tails and messy vent feathers indicating diarrhea. I've lost 2 hens, one week apart recently. Their behavior seemed perfectly normal, healthy weight, layed eggs the day they passed, eating and drinking as usual. I found them still warm with no indications of injury. I did note that they both had messy vent feathers and wondered if that may have indicated a cause. Would anyone have any feed back for me as to what they are lacking? Or what the illness could be? They are given a small amount of scratch daily as a treat, along with black soldier fly larvae (freeze dried) and table and garden greens, never onions. They have two large cans of 18% protein layer krumbles, one inside their run and one outside in their enclosure. I have two 5 gallon water cans that are rinsed and filled every other day. I can't figure out what if anything they are missing. Helpful advise or comment appreciated
 
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janiedoe said:
Welcome to BYC.
I'm sorry for your losses.
Do you hens have bright red combs and faces? Or, are they pale?
Have you added any birds into your flock within the last year?
Has your weather been wet and/or cold?
Have you ever had any respiratory illness in your flock in the past?
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Thank you!
Hello! All 28 of my hens have bright red combs and waddles, they look amazing other than 2 of them have messy vent feathers from watery poops. Even the two hens that I lost looked great and behaved perfectly normal. The only think I can think of in common with them is they both were still warm and they had their legs pulled up to their bellies. Our weather has been between 60°-85°, foggy and drizzly in the a.m. and sunny in the afternoons. Perfect spring weather. They have an oil filled heater in the hen house for super cold nights ( below 32°) and an in wall double ventilator for either blowing cooler air into the hen house on hot days and nights ( this is south Texas) or it will suck out the hot air and dust. I clean the hen house, run and enclosure twice a year, it's due now and is on my "next to do" list. I just can't figure out what could have cause the two deaths and the two hens I have now that presently show the same outward signs the first two had. The beaks were not wet, no crusting around the eyes or nostrils...nothing...
 
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Dpennell said:
I've been raising chickens for several years now but still have questions concerning their health. I have two hens with drooping tails and messy vent feathers indicating diarrhea. I've lost 2 hens, one week apart recently. Their behavior seemed perfectly normal, healthy weight, layed eggs the day they passed, eating and drinking as usual. I found them still warm with no indications of injury. I did note that they both had messy vent feathers and wondered if that may have indicated a cause. Would anyone have any feed back for me as to what they are lacking? Or what the illness could be? They are given a small amount of scratch daily as a treat, along with black soldier fly larvae (freeze dried) and table and garden greens, never onions. They have two large cans of 18% protein layer krumbles, one inside their run and one outside in their enclosure. I have two 5 gallon water cans that are rinsed and filled every other day. I can't figure out what if anything they are missing. Helpful advise or comment appreciated
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