In need of help. Really worried

[alexthefarmlady]

Maybe see if you can get them to eat some garlic mixed in with something. It has antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties. My mom's chickens like it mixed with canned fish. My own girls didn't like that at all. I ended up giving mine turmeric mixed with applesauce as an antiviral, and they did ok with that.

Thank you so much your awesome

 

[Eggcessive]

I just been giving them corn and rice and egg

Can you get some chicken feed for them, such as layer feed from your farm store? It has a balance of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals, and the correct amount of protein for them to lay eggs. Corn and rice do not. If it is fowl pox, that lasts about 3 weeks, but it can slowly spread through your flock. Do not disturb scabs. Here is a good article about pox:

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/fowl-pox-prevention-treatmen/

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

@casportpony can help you.

 

[dunnmom]

Thank you so much your awesome

You're welcome! I'm only a couple of years into chicken keeping, but this happens to be something I've dealt with. Raw garlic is supposed to work better than cooked, if you can get them to accept it. The chopped kind you see in jars at the grocery store works just fine, but fresh is best if you don't mind the extra work of peeling and chopping.

 

[ChickNanny13]

2x Eggcessive You should feed commercial chicken feed .... Flock Raiser, All Flock, All Purpose with Oyster Shells on in a separate dish for the Hens. Your whole flock can the same feed but not when you feed layer. They need a balanced, nutritional diet to produce and maintain their health.

Where are you located? I'm thinking they got bit by something, wasp? But the black scabs do look like Fowl Pox.

 

[dunnmom]

Um, I think some of you misunderstood about the food thing. That was specifically about treats, not feed. Lol!

 

[alexthefarmlady]

Maybe see if you can get them to eat some garlic mixed in with something. It has antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties. My mom's chickens like it mixed with canned fish. My own girls didn't like that at all. I ended up giving mine turmeric mixed with applesauce as an antiviral, and they did ok with that.

Okay will do. Thank you so much

 

[alexthefarmlady]

2x Eggcessive You should feed commercial chicken feed .... Flock Raiser, All Flock, All Purpose with Oyster Shells on in a separate dish for the Hens. Your whole flock can the same feed but not when you feed layer. They need a balanced, nutritional diet to produce and maintain their health.

Where are you located? I'm thinking they got bit by something, wasp? But the black scabs do look like Fowl Pox.

I Live in FL a lot of bugs out here lol

 

[alexthefarmlady]

Can you get some chicken feed for them, such as layer feed from your farm store? It has a balance of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals, and the correct amount of protein for them to lay eggs. Corn and rice do not. If it is fowl pox, that lasts about 3 weeks, but it can slowly spread through your flock. Do not disturb scabs. Here is a good article about pox:

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/fowl-pox-prevention-treatmen/

Yeah we feed our chickens egg layer and the two who got sick or got bitten they already are separate from the other flock and they also come in at night because Mosquitoes get so bad outside

 

[dunnmom]

Garlic is also supposed to help repel mosquitos, although some say that is a bogus myth. Something tells me it would be no match for the climate in FL. I've seen the size of ya'lls mosquitos. And the huge palmetto bugs! Out of morbid curiosity, do your chickens eat those?