Help! Lethargic hen, not eating!

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One of my gals isn't lethargic but I can tell she isn't feeling well. She is staying up on the roost longer than the others, sleeping in the nest sometime at night, is losing weight. I put her by herself a bit ago and gave her treats that she normally goes nuts over (cracked corn, cottage cheese, moistened feed) and she isn't eating at all. She has green poop which I've discovered means she isn't eating/processing the food. I've had chickens do this before and they've died. Not sure why or what to try to keep her alive. She is just over a year. Any suggestions? The other chickens are fine.
 
Just an update: Tomorrow is the final day of my birds' treatment. Within the second day if the medicine, my hen looked better. I haven't had any issues since and she is acting like her normal self again. Tomorrow I am going to disinfect the coop. I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for giving advice! Coccidiosis was probably my last thought until I noticed the bloody poo.
 
shadow rabbit10 said:
Oh no, it's fine! I too came home from the county fair two weeks ago... I have a feeling the stress may have weakened my bird's immune system. I have always heard that any eggs from a medicated bird should be thrown away, but I could be wrong... I know wormer requires the eggs to be discarded for 14 days. You say your birds were gasping for air? I don't remember abnormal breathing being a symptom for cocci, but the bloody poop and behaviors of your birds match the symptoms... Today I talked to a chicken breeder who works at TSC and he said heavy rainfall breeds cocci. If you say you've had heavy rainfall, that's probably part of the reason you got it. Cocci is normally unheard of in my area (except in chicks), but the TSC and feed store workers said that there has been an outbreak this year due to excessive rainfall. Hopefully the medication will work for you.
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Thanks you guys, I just put out my flocks first day of corid, so they will have it ready in the morning when they get up. No blood but medium brown runny poo's, tried save a chick, mine are 6 weeks and in their coop. One thing I didn't think about or read much about was rain...we have had an unseasonably rainy summer, with a week or so of tremendous heat, then back to rain. I had let my guys out for a few hours, first time, and just a bit after taking them off their first and only bag of medicated feed...well, they got stressed, won't go into it all, it's on another thread already, but I bet, between the rain, them out, taking them off the bag of medicated feed, then having them stressed, did it. I am almost positive it is cocci. Some have looked "short" which is humped back and two were feathers ruffled also, plus the runny poo, one whole day of not eating or drinking much, if at all. They seemed to perk up and start getting better, after giving them save a chick today, but tonight's water change time, I saw 3 runny poo's again, so just put out the corid water for their morning water. I think I will do the 7 day treatment, to be sure. Can't hurt! I will again, clean out their coop, it's not as bad as yesterday, but still gonna clean everything and change out their shavings tomorrow. Thanks for the tip for putting it out at night!!! I was gonna get up and do it in the morning but makes sense to have it all ready! Thanks again!
 
I have a question, what do we do with the bedding we clean out? I have it in large plastic bags right now, as I really didn't want to put it in the compost...or just throw it in the woods...seems like that would add to the problem???? What do you all do with the contaminated bedding? thanks so much!
 
I am doing one more day of treatment but the girls are all looking a lot better. I did not realize how sick they were getting, I thought the changes were brought on because I removed the rooster from the coop to allow them to grow feathers back. I thought the feather loss was causing the egg reduction and the sluggishness. I keep everything really clean, change their water everyday and even sometimes twice a day, bleach the waterers at least every two weeks. Keep the coop wiped down with Simple Green (this next time I will use ammonia since I read somewhere bleach does not kill coccidiosis).

I am currently, slowly, cleaning their yards, although I have read that once they have a specific strand they cannot get it again but there are like a total of 7 strands that are carried in the bird family. I also read that the strands are specific to their own types, in other words your chickens cannot give coccidiosis to your dogs or goats etc. and the same in reverse. All you way more knowledgable feathered friends out there please correct me if I am wrong as I have only been in the chicken business for just over a year now. Because humans cannot get cocci from chickens, that I am aware of, I am putting my dirty litter in the compost pile, of course my compost pile will not be used for years yet as it takes a plow tractor to turn it and since we have to rent one to turn it (we only have a mower tractor) the breakdown process is slow.

Anyway, the girls are looking great and so is the rooster (I went ahead and treated him because I know I carried stuff from my boots into his area). They are all talking to me again and flying up to my shoulders, sitting on my lap and pecking at my legs and boots. I am sad for the two I lost but it is a lesson for me to be more vigilant and to maybe be quicker to want to try a medicine instead of trying to explain things away.

Thanks everyone for answering my questions and thanks again to shadow rabbit 10 for letting me share your post! (*>
 

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