EastCoastchickenlover
In the Brooder
- Jan 23, 2020
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I don't have a vet near me that will treat chickens so I'm hoping someone here can help?
Basically I got a flock of chicks and now they are about six months old..maybe seven. Anyways..I'm not sure if they've had any type of vaccinations.
Everyone looked healthy until about a week ago or so and then i noticed one of the chickens walking what looked like crooked..I wasn't sure what to think about it..the next day I checked on her again and she had gotten a little worse where she couldn't make it up to the house so i fed her by hand..in which she ate a lot and ordered some vitamins for her..the next day she had separated herself from the rest of the flock..she was laying on the other end of the house alone. So i got her up and put the vitamins in a dropper and she didn't want to eat much at all but I've been trying to give her water from the dropper and feed her little pieces of strawberries and eggs..she wouldn't really eat or drink at all until yesterday and then she started being more alert and she ate some strawberries out of my hand..some grass..some egg etc
I've been giving her vitamins from a dropper(Poly Vi Sol) each day. Only 4-5 drops though. Today I went out expecting her to be just as good if not a little better than yesterday because she was showing some improvement..yet she didn't look like she had moved at all since last night and today she's refusing to drink or eat anything. She also had yellow-ish diarrhea today. I'm not sure what to think of it now? When I pick her up she can use her legs to make like a paddling motion but she can't stand on them. Her neck was floppy a few days ago and had to be supported but the next day she seemed to be able to support it herself.
Now that I think about it even as a chick she was really skittish..or so i thought..she would go up into the house and sit by herself when she heard a noise or one of the other chickens would pick on her...is this a sign of her being sick? I noticed the past three or four weeks before this that she was making friends easier so I didn't think anymore of it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated..I've also separated her into another coop to prevent possible bullying because of her being sick
Basically I got a flock of chicks and now they are about six months old..maybe seven. Anyways..I'm not sure if they've had any type of vaccinations.
Everyone looked healthy until about a week ago or so and then i noticed one of the chickens walking what looked like crooked..I wasn't sure what to think about it..the next day I checked on her again and she had gotten a little worse where she couldn't make it up to the house so i fed her by hand..in which she ate a lot and ordered some vitamins for her..the next day she had separated herself from the rest of the flock..she was laying on the other end of the house alone. So i got her up and put the vitamins in a dropper and she didn't want to eat much at all but I've been trying to give her water from the dropper and feed her little pieces of strawberries and eggs..she wouldn't really eat or drink at all until yesterday and then she started being more alert and she ate some strawberries out of my hand..some grass..some egg etc
I've been giving her vitamins from a dropper(Poly Vi Sol) each day. Only 4-5 drops though. Today I went out expecting her to be just as good if not a little better than yesterday because she was showing some improvement..yet she didn't look like she had moved at all since last night and today she's refusing to drink or eat anything. She also had yellow-ish diarrhea today. I'm not sure what to think of it now? When I pick her up she can use her legs to make like a paddling motion but she can't stand on them. Her neck was floppy a few days ago and had to be supported but the next day she seemed to be able to support it herself.
Now that I think about it even as a chick she was really skittish..or so i thought..she would go up into the house and sit by herself when she heard a noise or one of the other chickens would pick on her...is this a sign of her being sick? I noticed the past three or four weeks before this that she was making friends easier so I didn't think anymore of it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated..I've also separated her into another coop to prevent possible bullying because of her being sick