BansheeBenji
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- Apr 29, 2018
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I have a 5 month old Cuckoo Maran, named Flo, who's been panting for the last four/five days and has diarrhea. She just laid her first egg four days ago, it had a good shell, though a little misshapen and about half the size of normal eggs. She laid another egg yesterday which was very well shelled, small again, normal shaped, but with a little bit of poop on it.
The last few days were pretty warm (75-80), but the last two have been only in the low 70s, and she's still panting. None of the other girls, not my Favorelle or Brahama, even my solid black hen, are acting like it's hot. It's only 73 right now and she's in the shade (misted down, just to help out), wings out and mouth open, eyes a little tired looking. Sometimes her tail is down but I've only noticed her in a Penguin pose once, and she laid an egg about two hours later. The last few days she's spent a lot of time napping with her sister in the shade. She has plenty of fresh water, I put electrolytes in yesterdays water, and there's a low plastic storage container out there with about an inch of water just incase she wants to cool off, since I read that can help. She's been on layer feed because I knew it wasn't long till she laid an egg. There's oyster shells available to supplement too.
Just now I was out there and she had a huge, fairly bright yellow diarrhea. I know they pass softer poops every couple of times but this wasn't the normal brownish color. I'm a little worried about worms. I do have Safe-guard goat wormer if anyone thinks that would be a good idea, as well as Wazine-17. I haven't noticed any lice or mites. I don't want to stress her more if something else is wrong though.
She does eat, drink, in the mornings she seems okay and later in the evening she's pretty alert. I don't know if this is the stress of being a new layer or not. My gut says something's a little off. I've put apple cider vinegar in their water regularly for months and I did check her crop, it's okay. (She gets on my shoulder every night too, squawks in my face, her breath doesn't smell scary.) At first I thought maybe she felt uncomfortable because she could feel her first egg developing and a warm bath definitely perked her up. My other big fear is her laying internally. There's nothing mucusy or gross around her vent, it's clean, despite the diarrhea.
I took my Brahama to the vet about a month ago because I thought she was too thin (he said she's in great laying shape, just to cut all the scraps because it taxes their digestive system and thins out the nutrients in their food) and he said that pretty much all chickens are exposed to meriks. So this ties in with my worry about her laying internally. It's essentially impossible to not have them exposed, even if they're vaccinated, because unless they get vaccinated in a controlled environment within minutes of hatching, they're gonna test positive for it.
SO i'm not quite sure what to make of this stuff and what to do with it. I'm keeping an eye on her. I'd quarantine her but it's cooler in the shade than in the garage and there aren't dogs out there. Plus her and her sister are pretty much inseparable.
The last few days were pretty warm (75-80), but the last two have been only in the low 70s, and she's still panting. None of the other girls, not my Favorelle or Brahama, even my solid black hen, are acting like it's hot. It's only 73 right now and she's in the shade (misted down, just to help out), wings out and mouth open, eyes a little tired looking. Sometimes her tail is down but I've only noticed her in a Penguin pose once, and she laid an egg about two hours later. The last few days she's spent a lot of time napping with her sister in the shade. She has plenty of fresh water, I put electrolytes in yesterdays water, and there's a low plastic storage container out there with about an inch of water just incase she wants to cool off, since I read that can help. She's been on layer feed because I knew it wasn't long till she laid an egg. There's oyster shells available to supplement too.
Just now I was out there and she had a huge, fairly bright yellow diarrhea. I know they pass softer poops every couple of times but this wasn't the normal brownish color. I'm a little worried about worms. I do have Safe-guard goat wormer if anyone thinks that would be a good idea, as well as Wazine-17. I haven't noticed any lice or mites. I don't want to stress her more if something else is wrong though.
She does eat, drink, in the mornings she seems okay and later in the evening she's pretty alert. I don't know if this is the stress of being a new layer or not. My gut says something's a little off. I've put apple cider vinegar in their water regularly for months and I did check her crop, it's okay. (She gets on my shoulder every night too, squawks in my face, her breath doesn't smell scary.) At first I thought maybe she felt uncomfortable because she could feel her first egg developing and a warm bath definitely perked her up. My other big fear is her laying internally. There's nothing mucusy or gross around her vent, it's clean, despite the diarrhea.
I took my Brahama to the vet about a month ago because I thought she was too thin (he said she's in great laying shape, just to cut all the scraps because it taxes their digestive system and thins out the nutrients in their food) and he said that pretty much all chickens are exposed to meriks. So this ties in with my worry about her laying internally. It's essentially impossible to not have them exposed, even if they're vaccinated, because unless they get vaccinated in a controlled environment within minutes of hatching, they're gonna test positive for it.
SO i'm not quite sure what to make of this stuff and what to do with it. I'm keeping an eye on her. I'd quarantine her but it's cooler in the shade than in the garage and there aren't dogs out there. Plus her and her sister are pretty much inseparable.
