- Mar 24, 2012
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I have a bantam hen that was born in may of 2020. She has never laid an egg. She is kept with 3 other female bantams in a small coop during the night and a 10x10 dog run during most of the day. They have sand flooring except in their night area and then there they have pine and hay. She gets fed fresh veggies and fruits, freeze dried meal worms, and nutrena nature wise layer feed, and are fed back the crushed egg shells from the other 3 that lay plus those from my quail. She also has access to oyster shell but to be honest I have never seen her touch it past the first time I offered it to her.
She is thin and her kneel bone is easily seen when she is flipped over. She has almost no energy. She will not eat but is drinking. We cannot feel an egg or anything other than her bones. Her vent is clean but she has old poop stuck on her feathers. Her comb is pale, clear eyes, no breathing problems, hardly pooping..in 3 days she has pooped 1 time and I have attached a photo. This is the 2and time this has happened to her. I have been doing her with vetrx poultry aid for a few days now but no improvement. I dont want to give her anything stronger yet without getting other opinions. I'm worried this is reproductive related as she has never laid an egg and is so thin. She has been dewormed but I have not seen parasites in her or any of the other girls poop. Other chickens or birds are acting off. This happened to her during another cold snap bit she bounced back with the vetrx and me keeping her indoors for a few days..but she was never her true normal self..she was the head of the flock and always 1st out of the coop and to eat. Now she always hangs back and is way to placid and that's not her.
Thank you for your suggestions and help ahead of time! Below is a video I took and it shows her poop and her isolation cage.
She is thin and her kneel bone is easily seen when she is flipped over. She has almost no energy. She will not eat but is drinking. We cannot feel an egg or anything other than her bones. Her vent is clean but she has old poop stuck on her feathers. Her comb is pale, clear eyes, no breathing problems, hardly pooping..in 3 days she has pooped 1 time and I have attached a photo. This is the 2and time this has happened to her. I have been doing her with vetrx poultry aid for a few days now but no improvement. I dont want to give her anything stronger yet without getting other opinions. I'm worried this is reproductive related as she has never laid an egg and is so thin. She has been dewormed but I have not seen parasites in her or any of the other girls poop. Other chickens or birds are acting off. This happened to her during another cold snap bit she bounced back with the vetrx and me keeping her indoors for a few days..but she was never her true normal self..she was the head of the flock and always 1st out of the coop and to eat. Now she always hangs back and is way to placid and that's not her.
Thank you for your suggestions and help ahead of time! Below is a video I took and it shows her poop and her isolation cage.