JAR26
Songster
Help!!
I have 5 Plymouth barred rocks (1 is rooster) and 3 bovin brown. The brown girls are my first birds and i introduced the other ones in the spring. It wasnt easy transition but they eventually all got along except the brown stay together and the plymouth stay together. I havent checked them in 3 days and my husband is the one who was feeding them. Today, saw one of my browns in a corner shivering with her back and butt all scabbed up and feathers plucked. I was shocked!! I have never seen any pecking/plucking blood being drawn on any of my birds before and i should have caught this before it got this bad and I feel terrible. The brown girls have been molting for a while or at least I assumed they were but maybe this is plucking and not molting they are experiencing? A week ago, i took away their outdoor pen extension for the winter....i assumed this is maybe why they got agressive (less distraction).
I isolated the injured bird in a separate coop in my garage. She eats and drinks and poops and also shivers. I read i can give her aspirin in her water and there is and antibacterial spray at my local shur gain i could put on her back.
2 questions: seeing as its getting cold here and she is missing quite a few feathers, should i put a heat lamp up for her?
Also, when do I know it's time to let her go and end her suffering? I want to save her and am prepared to put in the work but if she is just going to suffer all this time and then die...what would be a sign that she is not going to make it?
Thank you!
I have 5 Plymouth barred rocks (1 is rooster) and 3 bovin brown. The brown girls are my first birds and i introduced the other ones in the spring. It wasnt easy transition but they eventually all got along except the brown stay together and the plymouth stay together. I havent checked them in 3 days and my husband is the one who was feeding them. Today, saw one of my browns in a corner shivering with her back and butt all scabbed up and feathers plucked. I was shocked!! I have never seen any pecking/plucking blood being drawn on any of my birds before and i should have caught this before it got this bad and I feel terrible. The brown girls have been molting for a while or at least I assumed they were but maybe this is plucking and not molting they are experiencing? A week ago, i took away their outdoor pen extension for the winter....i assumed this is maybe why they got agressive (less distraction).
I isolated the injured bird in a separate coop in my garage. She eats and drinks and poops and also shivers. I read i can give her aspirin in her water and there is and antibacterial spray at my local shur gain i could put on her back.
2 questions: seeing as its getting cold here and she is missing quite a few feathers, should i put a heat lamp up for her?
Also, when do I know it's time to let her go and end her suffering? I want to save her and am prepared to put in the work but if she is just going to suffer all this time and then die...what would be a sign that she is not going to make it?
Thank you!
