chrisnatx
Hatching
- May 13, 2021
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Hello, Hoping I can get some of your expertise. We're a little new to chickens.
Background:
Had a bad freeze here in Texas awhile ago, Chickens did great but I think they got stressed due to water freezing up for portions of the day, etc.
They came out of it seemingly great, but a dominant chicken started hen pecking the others. Tried the blinder/sunglass thing for the aggresive chicken and she got very thin and ended up removing it and putting Chicken Saddles on the other chickens. As soon as bully chicken got its energy back (about a week) started hen pecking again. Re-homed the aggressive chicken. Meanwhile other chickens were stressed and missing some feathers on their butts but didn't have any major wounds. Beginning during this time I noticed some odd behavior in a few chickens that (at first) I thought was just due to the stress of the bully and henpecking:
Some have ruffled, puffed up feathers
Wiping beak on ground and shaking head often
Lethargic, being broody in nesting boxes
Some have runny stool, no blood that I can see though.
Pale Combs, some with little white crusty, just a bit
then one became very lethargic and was laying down in the middle of the run one day, she passed that night.
After some reading I decided it might be Coccidiosis. I'm on day 3 of 5 for the Corid water treatment.
I see improvements (I think) in flock, also with the bully chicken gone stress seems to be going down.
BUT, I have one Lavender Orpington who seems worse with the symptoms I listed above, super puffed up, erradic speed walking around run, broody, lethargic, some diarrea and she is shaking her head often and wiping her beak a lot though there is nothing on it.
She eats a little, and does drink the medicated water when I kick her out of the roosting box. Worried I'm going to loose her, Any help would be appreciated. I'd say the odd behaviors have been about 2 weeks, hen-pecking issues were over the past month.
Thanks in advance!
RCB in Austin, TX
Background:
Had a bad freeze here in Texas awhile ago, Chickens did great but I think they got stressed due to water freezing up for portions of the day, etc.
They came out of it seemingly great, but a dominant chicken started hen pecking the others. Tried the blinder/sunglass thing for the aggresive chicken and she got very thin and ended up removing it and putting Chicken Saddles on the other chickens. As soon as bully chicken got its energy back (about a week) started hen pecking again. Re-homed the aggressive chicken. Meanwhile other chickens were stressed and missing some feathers on their butts but didn't have any major wounds. Beginning during this time I noticed some odd behavior in a few chickens that (at first) I thought was just due to the stress of the bully and henpecking:
Some have ruffled, puffed up feathers
Wiping beak on ground and shaking head often
Lethargic, being broody in nesting boxes
Some have runny stool, no blood that I can see though.
Pale Combs, some with little white crusty, just a bit
then one became very lethargic and was laying down in the middle of the run one day, she passed that night.
After some reading I decided it might be Coccidiosis. I'm on day 3 of 5 for the Corid water treatment.
I see improvements (I think) in flock, also with the bully chicken gone stress seems to be going down.
BUT, I have one Lavender Orpington who seems worse with the symptoms I listed above, super puffed up, erradic speed walking around run, broody, lethargic, some diarrea and she is shaking her head often and wiping her beak a lot though there is nothing on it.
She eats a little, and does drink the medicated water when I kick her out of the roosting box. Worried I'm going to loose her, Any help would be appreciated. I'd say the odd behaviors have been about 2 weeks, hen-pecking issues were over the past month.
Thanks in advance!
RCB in Austin, TX
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