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eryan7 said:
Hi, not sure if anyone can advise, but today I found one of my hens sitting on the coop floor.  She is very lethargic and her combs and waddle are greyish pink.  I see some poop on her behind, but she has always been our one hen who had poop on her butt and never was actually sick (since day one).  She is part of my older flock, who I have had for 4 years.  To date, I have been very lucky in that we have not had any illnesses.  I am worried that my luck has run out...Unfortunately the vet who specializes in livestock cannot see her until tomorrow.  My other vet has no experience with chickens so I am thinking I will wait.  At this point I moved her into our shed with clean water and nutri-drench, but she does not seem to want anything.  I have tried dipping her beak in but she is barely opening her eyes.  Does anyone have any idea what I may be dealing with?  I am worried about the rest of my flock.  No one else is acting odd but I am not sure what to do next.
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sorry if this is too late to be helpful...what you described does not sound good at all. I would bring her into a warmer, quiet area, give her a couple drops of nutridrench right into her mouth. Try to get her to eat or drink something. You can syringe liquid into her if you are slow and careful. Tube feeding is a drastic step but an option if you feel you can and think it will help.
These techniques have all been spoken about at length here on BYC, place the term 'syringe feeding' or 'tube feeding' in the search block above, it should get you the right answers. Typing on my mobile is difficult or I would go into more details here.
 
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eryan7 said:
Hi, not sure if anyone can advise, but today I found one of my hens sitting on the coop floor.  She is very lethargic and her combs and waddle are greyish pink.  I see some poop on her behind, but she has always been our one hen who had poop on her butt and never was actually sick (since day one).  She is part of my older flock, who I have had for 4 years.  To date, I have been very lucky in that we have not had any illnesses.  I am worried that my luck has run out...Unfortunately the vet who specializes in livestock cannot see her until tomorrow.  My other vet has no experience with chickens so I am thinking I will wait.  At this point I moved her into our shed with clean water and nutri-drench, but she does not seem to want anything.  I have tried dipping her beak in but she is barely opening her eyes.  Does anyone have any idea what I may be dealing with?  I am worried about the rest of my flock.  No one else is acting odd but I am not sure what to do next.
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Poor thing, sounds like you're doing what's right. Unfortunately chickens rarely show symptoms until they are extremely bad off.
 
Thank you for all the suggestions. We brought her into the sun room with our radiator space heater and gave her some nutri drench. Unfortunately she passed over night. :( At least she had a quiet warmer place before she left us. As soon as the storm passes, going to clean out the whole coop.
 
eryan7 said:
Thank you for all the suggestions. We brought her into the sun room with our radiator space heater and gave her some nutri drench. Unfortunately she passed over night. :( At least she had a quiet warmer place before she left us. As soon as the storm passes, going to clean out the whole coop.
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I'm very sorry to hear that you lost her :(
 
Anyone near Pittsburgh selling and Egg Layers? Rhode Island Reds? Barred Rocks? Anything? i'm looking to buy 6 or so, and really dont want to pay shipping charges, i'd rather drive, let my son have the experience of Picking up chicks.
 
KenStorm989 said:
Anyone near Pittsburgh selling and Egg Layers?  Rhode Island Reds? Barred Rocks?  Anything?  i'm looking to buy 6 or so, and really dont want to pay shipping charges, i'd rather drive, let my son have the experience of Picking up chicks.
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I'm about an hour and a half east of Pittsburgh, roughly. I'm breeding cream crested legbars, silkies, and lavender ameraucanas. I should have some available, not this coming weekend but the next.
 
Morning all! Totally slept in today. Normally hubby does wake ups for school and luckily he knew id sleep in and called to wake us up so not too late for school. He did have to bring up how warm it is in Texas and i may have hung up on him....:rant. I put the blue coat on Hedwig yesterday and got it all over her.... once she groomed a bit the wound looked much better and she was moving around way more. Going to keep an eye on her and move her in house if needed.
@FluffyButt789 they are all around a year old and already laying. Other than wanting to mess with hubby i have way to many people that want to buy eggs and not enough laying hens lol. I work at Lucky Louies across from the casino so the number of people that ask for them is crazy! I even have more people that want duck eggs then I can fill right now. Sold my first ones last weekend and have already sold enough for 2 bags of feed! I know hubby is going to be teasing me for the next 20 years every time he goes out of town but it'll be funny when he sees them! Definitely freeding out a bit about being alone for storm. Trying to get all of the animals ready and I'm supposed to work tonight which means kids would be alone till 1 am. If power or anything goes out I'm kinda worried. So sick of winter!!
 
I'm gonna just curl up in a blanket till this snow stops! If I'm brave enough (or stupid enough) I might bundle up to see if I can at least get something done on the coop. I'm actually glad this is happening before the babies get here. God forbid I lose some because of the cold. BRR!!
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fangedknight said:
I'm gonna just curl up in a blanket till this snow stops! If I'm brave enough (or stupid enough) I might bundle up to see if I can at least get something done on the coop. I'm actually glad this is happening before the babies get here. God forbid I lose some because of the cold. BRR!! :oops:
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I downloaded the 'Chicken People' movie to watch during the storm. We plan to move the cabinet incubator into a room that has an outlet that works with the generator. I've been tarping my little heart out today. I'm going to move the birds that are left in my main coop to a safer spot, we still have not caught any coons. It is making me CRAZY. I hope you all stay safe and warm. The wind is kicking up out there, time to get back to it.
 

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