Hello. I went to feed my chickens today and found 2 dead chickens and 1 very far along alive one. I though she was dead. Absolutely no movement whatsoever. I checked her heart beat and there was a beat and she was cold. she moved her beak ever so slightly and opened her eyes. So I brought her home and put her under a lamp, gave her some mushed up laying pellets with water mixed, regular pellets. Got a medicine syringe and got some of the water/pellet mix and gave it to her. She wasn't interested. So I ran and got some regular water. As week as she was that little limp body about killed me for that water. I just don't understand. I have a 5 gallon bucket that is constantly full that has those nipple drinkers on it. 4 of them. I have 48 chickens. All of them drunk. So I gave the limp chicken her water and she is ok I guess. I have a heat lamp on her and hope and pray she makes it. She is one of my favorite momma hens. What do I do? I got her in a trade and the otehr ones that died were also traded ones. They all have plenty of food and water. NO blood or peck marks that I can see. I am stumped.
Second. I have an Ameracauna hen that her beak is literally rotting. It is black and has yellow discharge. She was fine yesterday but the day before she was kind of in a corner by herself. Didn't think nothing about it. I picked her up today because she was doing kind of by her self and had her little mouth open.I tryed to give her some water but she wasn't interested. I kind of wiped her beak off.She then cleaned it her self. Then she just kind of ran off. Medicine? Shot? vitamin?
My whole flock acts like they are starving for water. But yet I keep water over there. If I pour it like a pan dish they will ran as fast as those little legs can move and drink every single last drop of water. But those nipples work just fine. My whole flock is fine. Fatter than normal literally and beautiful shiny feathers, normal "waste" clean and the coop itself smells good but No eggs and they are 31 weeks old. Production Reds, White Leghorns, Ameracaunas and Black Australorps. They are very very clean chickens. I can not stand a naughsty stinking chicken coop with naughsty chickens. I don't understand. Please help me in getting these sick ones better and help to keep the rest of my flock from getting sick. Thank you all so very much for reading this!!! Dusty
Second. I have an Ameracauna hen that her beak is literally rotting. It is black and has yellow discharge. She was fine yesterday but the day before she was kind of in a corner by herself. Didn't think nothing about it. I picked her up today because she was doing kind of by her self and had her little mouth open.I tryed to give her some water but she wasn't interested. I kind of wiped her beak off.She then cleaned it her self. Then she just kind of ran off. Medicine? Shot? vitamin?
My whole flock acts like they are starving for water. But yet I keep water over there. If I pour it like a pan dish they will ran as fast as those little legs can move and drink every single last drop of water. But those nipples work just fine. My whole flock is fine. Fatter than normal literally and beautiful shiny feathers, normal "waste" clean and the coop itself smells good but No eggs and they are 31 weeks old. Production Reds, White Leghorns, Ameracaunas and Black Australorps. They are very very clean chickens. I can not stand a naughsty stinking chicken coop with naughsty chickens. I don't understand. Please help me in getting these sick ones better and help to keep the rest of my flock from getting sick. Thank you all so very much for reading this!!! Dusty