- Jun 4, 2013
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My 4 girls have been with us since late February, and were bought at point of lay, so are probably now about 7 months old, they are all hybrids. We had a little bit of trouble with them sorting out a pecking order and one of them (Popcorn) was left badly pecked and missing a lot of feathers, but she seemed quite happy and was still laying. About 2 weeks ago she stopped laying, but there were no signs that anything was wrong so we put it down to her using her energy to regrow all the missing feathers. Last week the weather here was horrible, and Popcorn more or less stayed in the coop, which we thought was just because she was feeling the cold (what with being bald), but it's become clear that there is something wrong with her. She is coming out with the others chickens, but doesn't seem to have much energy, she is eating and drinking but she has watery poo and the weight is just dropping off, today she is skin and bone. She isn't pooing any more often than normal, and there is no mess on her feathers, but when she does poo it's like water. I can't feel any lumps anywhere, so I've ruled out impacted crop, or internal laying, but I don't know what else I should be doing? I'm worried she's just going to starve to death if I can't work out what's wrong. I've just taken them out some scrambled egg mixed with layers pellets and a bit of corn as a treat to try and get some calories in her and she's eating it quite happily. Help!!