CaseySA
Hatching
Hi, I am new to this site
I bought two chickens (more like rescued them) a few days ago and the one chicken has three problems which i noticed. I am totally clueless about chickens, so i am hoping to get some help here..
Problem 1: She bent down to eat, and water came out of her beak. I googled this and it seems serious? Is she going to die? However, it only happened once (that i have seen) and she is eating and drinking normally... Is there any chance that she maybe just drank too much water? Just before this happened she finished an entire bowl of water. (I think she was dehydrated - she was quite neglected in her previous home)
Problem 2: She has horrific scaly, thick legs.
Problem 3: When I pick her up she feels very thin to me, how do you tell if your chicken is underweight?
I have read many of the post and looked at many photos of chickens with scaly leg mite.. and to be honest, my chicken looks worse than 90% of the photos i see online
After reading a lot about it, it seems ivermectin is one of my options. I have ivermectin dewormer for horses, can this be given to my chickens? Or is it some other kind of ivermectin?
Please take a look at the pics and give me some advice.
Also, the feed i bought consists of cracked corn and sunflower seeds. Is this sufficient for the chickens or should I be feeding something else as well? At their previous home they did not get fed anything, they lived off any feed that the horses dropped.
Please excuse the room in the background. I am busy converting it into a chicken coop. It was previously just a storage room. At night they will sleep in there and during the day they run freely around the garden.
Thanks in advance
I bought two chickens (more like rescued them) a few days ago and the one chicken has three problems which i noticed. I am totally clueless about chickens, so i am hoping to get some help here..
Problem 1: She bent down to eat, and water came out of her beak. I googled this and it seems serious? Is she going to die? However, it only happened once (that i have seen) and she is eating and drinking normally... Is there any chance that she maybe just drank too much water? Just before this happened she finished an entire bowl of water. (I think she was dehydrated - she was quite neglected in her previous home)
Problem 2: She has horrific scaly, thick legs.
Problem 3: When I pick her up she feels very thin to me, how do you tell if your chicken is underweight?
I have read many of the post and looked at many photos of chickens with scaly leg mite.. and to be honest, my chicken looks worse than 90% of the photos i see online
After reading a lot about it, it seems ivermectin is one of my options. I have ivermectin dewormer for horses, can this be given to my chickens? Or is it some other kind of ivermectin?
Please take a look at the pics and give me some advice.
Also, the feed i bought consists of cracked corn and sunflower seeds. Is this sufficient for the chickens or should I be feeding something else as well? At their previous home they did not get fed anything, they lived off any feed that the horses dropped.
Please excuse the room in the background. I am busy converting it into a chicken coop. It was previously just a storage room. At night they will sleep in there and during the day they run freely around the garden.
Thanks in advance
Last edited: