New chicken owner, I am worried my hens are sick

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DettaWalker said:
Welcome to BYC! I know you've had plenty of responses already - so let me add mine as I've just gone through a similar experience:
Day 1: Chickens refused to leave the hen house.
Day 2: door opens - chickens refused to leave the hen house, we took them outside and put them into their run (they also have a fenced off area that sits outside their run for a bigger area) - they ate a little bit but mostly just sat around doing very little. At least they managed to find their own way in.
Day 3: Chickens left coop on their own - and ate but still chilled most of the day under the eglu cube (its a hen house on stilts) - I suspect this is because they feel safer there.
Over days 3-6: Especially on day 3 & 4 I noticed that when I sit in the garden tehy came out of the run and started exploring, but when I left they'd go back inside the run and under the coop. Days 5&6 they still showed that behaviour but less so and now they roam outside without me being there for about half the time.

And yes - I have a live camera to watch them when I am not near them...
We're on day 7 now and they are relatively relaxed and happy.
Now my hens came from what looked like a good farm where they were relatively relaxed and happy - at 18 weeks. So if yours were in less than ideal circumstances most of their adult life.. then maybe they will need longer to adjust. I would try sitting outside with them if its not too cold . that got my chicken to warm up to me.
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Yep, Love never hurts!
 
Give them a week and see how they are doing. Don't expect eggs for quite sometime. If they are still not right or they take a turn for the worst in the next couple of days, definitely post in our Emergency section.
 
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Mr Pilo said:
what’s good for chickens the are sneezing, I hope is not the end, they made it all winter and I noticed they are sneezing, I live in southwest Oklahoma any advice?
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Please start a new thread if your own in the ER forum. If you do not know how, please let us know and we'll be happy to explain how to do it. :hugs
 
DobieLover said:
Please start a new thread if your own in the ER forum. If you do not know how, please let us know and we'll be happy to explain how to do it. :hugs
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Waste of time, you could answer instead you reply this, if you don’t care about chickens you don’t need to be heee.
And no I don’t know how to start a new thread!!!
 
Starting a thread on the ER forum is no different than starting a thread here., you seem to have had no trouble doing that.
 

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