HELP PLEASE!!!!!

[Wolfiehowl229]

Please help me. I'm going to tell you what the problem is then I will tell you about the chicken. Please help me. So the problem is that my hen is losing feathers and getting skinny even though she eats a lot, looks healthy, and is very active, and has lots of calcium and vitamins in her diet. She drinks a lot of water and lays eggs. Now this hen is 2 years old and I raised her as a one day old chick. She has two other sisters and they are as healthy as can be. None of my other eight chickens have anything wrong. Her poop is liquid white and green.. It is brown and plump. The eggs are perfectly fine. My hens have but been attacked by any animal and have no rooster. All the others have molded except for her. She peeps weakly. She has mites on her legs but we are taking care of that. Please help I don't think it's worms and if it is how do we treat it? We don't have an avian vet around here... Do I try and bring her into a normal vet??

 

[Eggcessive]

Sorry about your hen. I would feel her crop to see if it is empty, firm, doughy, or puffy. Crop blockages or sour crop can cause weight loss, and not being able to digest food. In the morning before she has eaten, the crop should be empty and flat. Compare hers with the other chickens’ crops. Feel of her breastbone for weight loss, and for any enlargement of her lower belly.

Offer her cooked egg, wet chicken feed mixed with a lot of water, and give her a tsp of plain yogurt in the mix to get her eating.

If possible gather some droppings and take them in to a vet for a fecal test, to look for worms and coccidiosis. Leg mites can be treated with a thick oil, such as castor oil, crisco shortening, or vaseline applied and rubbed into leg scales once a week.