prestoconfuoco
Songster
Hi everyone,'
One of my hens was acting very odd and lethargic tonight and when I saw her poop was unhealthy looking I grew pretty concerned. Note in these pictures her tail feathers are unusually thin - there was a duck who was bullying the hens and pulling their feathers, but she's been rehoused to a duck-only enclosure, so that is no longer a problem. However, the feathers around her vent still look pretty unhealthy, and there is this odd growth-like-thing.
In the picture below you can see the red arrow pointing to this lump I found on her. It is firm/hard, although I didn't squeeze or push on it very much at all for fear of hurting her. It isn't squishy is more the point I mean to make.
Here is the poop. It was very dark (I used the flash camera on my iphone) and in the dark it looked like it might be bloody, but the way the picture came out the "bloody" parts look light brown instead of red, so I am not sure.
I took a bunch of pictures because like I said it was really dark and I couldn't really see what I was doing. I won't put them all in this post, but you can see them all in this external album I uploaded (mostly just slightly different focuses of the same angle):
I don't know what's wrong; it seems as though it is possible she has mites if you look closely at the images, but I'm not sure if the specks are in fact mites, and I am also not sure if mites would cause the weird growth or the sick-looking poop.
Thank you so much for your help.
One of my hens was acting very odd and lethargic tonight and when I saw her poop was unhealthy looking I grew pretty concerned. Note in these pictures her tail feathers are unusually thin - there was a duck who was bullying the hens and pulling their feathers, but she's been rehoused to a duck-only enclosure, so that is no longer a problem. However, the feathers around her vent still look pretty unhealthy, and there is this odd growth-like-thing.
In the picture below you can see the red arrow pointing to this lump I found on her. It is firm/hard, although I didn't squeeze or push on it very much at all for fear of hurting her. It isn't squishy is more the point I mean to make.
Here is the poop. It was very dark (I used the flash camera on my iphone) and in the dark it looked like it might be bloody, but the way the picture came out the "bloody" parts look light brown instead of red, so I am not sure.
I took a bunch of pictures because like I said it was really dark and I couldn't really see what I was doing. I won't put them all in this post, but you can see them all in this external album I uploaded (mostly just slightly different focuses of the same angle):
I don't know what's wrong; it seems as though it is possible she has mites if you look closely at the images, but I'm not sure if the specks are in fact mites, and I am also not sure if mites would cause the weird growth or the sick-looking poop.
Thank you so much for your help.
