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[danand]

Emily-aaaawwwwhhhhh!!!!

Dearth- sorry I don't have any idea. Other than electrolytes. Someone on here will!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Anybody have ideas? She's getting worse and I brought her in for the night because her head is bleeding from the other hens

Aww, I feel bad for her. But I dont know what is wrong. Maybe their is just something wrong with her leg, such as a torn tendon.

 

[DarthLayer]

I've been searching online for some answers and one answer was a stroke, but even when she was a chick she walked funny if this info may help figure out what's wrong.

 

[kabhyper1]

I've been searching online for some answers and one answer was a stroke, but even when she was a chick she walked funny if this info may help figure out what's wrong.

I had a lame cochin this spring. I gave him scrambled eggs and cottage cheese for extra protein. Poly vi sol is in the pharmacy area of walmart, it helps with iron. At this point it may help more than hurt. I would take more experienced advice than what I have for you, but protein, bird vitamins and iron helped my little guy. He was lame on one foot. May have been an injury though. I don't have him any more, but I hear he is doing great.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I went out to check on the chickens at about 9 pm and they were already ready for bed, of course. I have a lawn chair in there that i sit in when I visit them. I dont have any roosts up, because they are just in a temporary pen. I have 10 chickens in this pen. Their were 8 on the lawn chair! 3 on each arm and 2 on the back. It was really funny. And one one arm their was a cochin, then a brown leghorn, and then another cochin, needless to say the leghorn was squished. I will not be setting in that lawn chair anymore, because they get poop on it,it was broken anways, thats why I wasnt concerned about putting it in there. So I wnt and found another old broken lawn chair that I hadnt got rid of yet and put it in their pen. then I transferred some chickens on to the new lawn chair and brought the 2 that werent already on the lawn chairs over to them. They wanted over with the other but acted like they would die or something if they touched the ground lol. So there ended up being 5 chickens on each lawn chair. I just thought it was funny!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I had a lame cochin this spring. I gave him scrambled eggs and cottage cheese for extra protein. Poly vi sol is in the pharmacy area of walmart, it helps with iron. At this point it may help more than hurt. I would take more experienced advice than what I have for you, but protein, bird vitamins and iron helped my little guy. He was lame on one foot. May have been an injury though. I don't have him any more, but I hear he is doing great.

I was always told that you were supposed to get poly-vi-sol baby vitamins without iron, as with iron can be harmful to the chicken.But this is just what I was told.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

I am going to the Great Mooresville Poultry Fest.

I am bringing a bunch of roosters for processing.

Anyone who wants to try their hand at the process and doesn't have a rooster can use one of mine.

Watch this youtube

Part 1 and part 2.

See you Sunday.

John

 

[kabhyper1]

I was always told that you were supposed to get poly-vi-sol baby vitamins without iron, as with iron can be harmful to the chicken.But this is just what I was told.

Like I said, maybe take a more experienced persons advice.

I just hated seeing you so sad and desperate for answers. I've been there!!

So I told you what I knew. I just got chicks

in march for the first time so I'm learning too.

 

[Mother2Hens]

Anybody have ideas? She's getting worse and I brought her in for the night because her head is bleeding from the other hens

I've been looking through my "Chicken Health for Dummies" book. You first mentioned that she was molting, but it's unusual to molt in the middle of summer. This is how you can tell if she is molting or if she something else is causing feather loss: Feather loss during molt moves in a wave over the chicken's body, roughly in a healed-to-tail direction, and the chicken has a bright new suit of feathers in little more than a month. Lots of short, stiff, tube-shaped pinfeathers emerge where feathers have been shed.

Feather loss around head, neck, or shoulders only is from feather pecking by flock mates.

I'm still looking in my book about her other issues.

I ran across this site if you want to look through it: http://www.chickenvet.co.uk

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Like I said, maybe take a more experienced persons advice.

I just hated seeing you so sad and desperate for answers. I've been there!!

So I told you what I knew. I just got chicks

in march for the first time so I'm learning too.

With chickens you are always learning something! (btw i wasnt the one needing help that was darthlayer )