fatimastic
Songster
My Australorp, she just turned 1 a year ago, has been sitting down.
She is weak, but is usually extremely active and eats very well. I believe she is weak because she had extreme diarrhea, which caused her vent feathers to deteriorate and her abdomen went bare and became red, due to exposure to dust and sun I suppose?
Nowadays, her vent feathers are in the process of growing.
She has lice more than other hens because she is really unkept and never takes care of her feathers. I have only seen her dust bath once in her entire lifetime!
I don't know when she last gave an egg but we have been having a dry spell overall. We have 7 eggs but we get average 2-3 eggs per day.
They also got Bronchitis when they were young, but I have never heard her wheeze.
They are free ranging right now. Usually she is extremely active, but right now she walks a few steps, sits down and eats the weed around her. Her crop has water and a little feed.
Her legs are a little scaly, not much, and I had started treating it with petroleum jelly, the day before yesterday. But can leg mites cause her to sit like that and limit her activity?
Since she is sitting down a lot, the rest of the flock is bullying her a lot and not letting her rest. She was already really low in the pecking order. The rooster just stood on her during mating, I had to push him off of him.
Any idea what might be wrong with her?
She is weak, but is usually extremely active and eats very well. I believe she is weak because she had extreme diarrhea, which caused her vent feathers to deteriorate and her abdomen went bare and became red, due to exposure to dust and sun I suppose?
Nowadays, her vent feathers are in the process of growing.
She has lice more than other hens because she is really unkept and never takes care of her feathers. I have only seen her dust bath once in her entire lifetime!
I don't know when she last gave an egg but we have been having a dry spell overall. We have 7 eggs but we get average 2-3 eggs per day.
They also got Bronchitis when they were young, but I have never heard her wheeze.
They are free ranging right now. Usually she is extremely active, but right now she walks a few steps, sits down and eats the weed around her. Her crop has water and a little feed.
Her legs are a little scaly, not much, and I had started treating it with petroleum jelly, the day before yesterday. But can leg mites cause her to sit like that and limit her activity?
Since she is sitting down a lot, the rest of the flock is bullying her a lot and not letting her rest. She was already really low in the pecking order. The rooster just stood on her during mating, I had to push him off of him.
Any idea what might be wrong with her?
