Hen has mites

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Dandelion is still acting really depressed and if I gentle push on her, like enough to make her move but a healthy hen would just side step, she trips and falls down
I am worried about her @Miss Lydia @Eggcessive anybody else?
Dandelion is the hen sitting down, this is her today
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@coach723 has given really good advice so far. Have you tried taking her aside and feeding the egg or cat food to tempt her to eat? Have you given the Poultry Cell or NutriDrench for iron? Is her crop emptying by early morning? Are they getting outside to roam around. Chickens can be weak and puny when molting, and especially if they have a mite infestation. Dusting with permethrin should be done again after 5-7 days, since the eggs hatch that often.
 
Eggcessive said:
@coach723 has given really good advice so far. Have you tried taking her aside and feeding the egg or cat food to tempt her to eat? Have you given the Poultry Cell or NutriDrench for iron? Is her crop emptying by early morning? Are they getting outside to roam around. Chickens can be weak and puny when molting, and especially if they have a mite infestation. Dusting with permethrin should be done again after 5-7 days, since the eggs hatch that often.
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sorry i had forgoten to say that i tried the cat food but she seemed uninterested, my hens have not been laying much due to molting and mites (my ducks at the moment once a week, molting, and they are due an egg any time now so should have one soon)

her crop is almost always empty, i brought her in to a seperate cage in my (car free) carport with a heat lamp on the 20th, i did not need to top up her food once then on the 28th another hen, caramel, was not doing well outside so i brought her in too, she is in the cage with her sister and this morning i had to top the food up (i think caremel was the one who ate it all)

thye normaly live outside in a big pen but since i brought them in they have not been out as it has been horrible weather here in england, really wet and windy and i was worried that dandelion would not cope with that

i am treating them with ivermectin (as a spot on) and spraying their vents with a mite spray
they have had 2 treatments of ivermectin so far, a week a part (i am planning on doing 3 treatments)

she is really weak and just sits under the heat lamp and stumbles when i touch her

i have access to a bird vet if needed
 
Eggcessive said:
Their bedding may need to be replaced if they still have mites on them. I have heard of mites coming in to chicken coops hiding inside straw.
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i have sprayed their coop with a mite killing spray and changed the bedding
they have hay as bedding as we have had many problems with mites at our old house
and the hen who i am most worried about is not in the house that they had mites in
also i stopped seeing mites i am just being careful to make sure they are completly rid of the little buggers
 
i just scrambled her an egg and she didnt want it, so i forced her to eat
i am going to start hand feeding her
she is literaly skin and bones
she is really weak and this is no longer just mites she would be getting better if it was just mites instead she is worse then when i brought her in a week ago

i have removed caremel and put her back with the main group as she seems to have bounced back and she was being mean to dandelion
 

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