I am hoping to get some insight to what is happening with my cochin. Maybe I am missing a bigger issue or worrying over nothing.
Flock History is : 3 bantam cochins, 1 wynadotte, 1 EE, 1 Sex Link. All around a year old. They eat a blend of flockraiser/omega 3 Purina sparingly, and grit and oyster shell on the side, and I give them a scratch blend everyday with a lot of BOSS. I cast it around a 6000 sq ft outdoor run that is partial woods and partial green grass pasture. they pretty much stay under the trees most days rummaging around. 1 tsp of ACV to a half gallon of water, changed daily.
The thinning cochin in question is a work horse. She is the first one in the yard scratching away and the last one in at night. Nothing in her personality or work ethic has changed, but her appearance has gotten gastly thin. It happened over the course of a few weeks.
Worried, I wormed them all about a month ago. Wazine, 10 days wait, followed up with something else, 14 days wait. I also gave her Tylan 50 antibiotic for 5 days orally thinking I was missing something.
She is still thinning more, and frail looking, but acts just fine. I dont believe she is molting because I dont see any abundance of feathers anywhere. Still lays 5 out of 7 days, eats, drinks and carries on like nothing is wrong. Waste looks normal, and always has. None of the other chickens appear to be getting thin. If anything, the warm weather has brought on the bugs and grass and they are getting plumper.
Her crop is full at dusk and empty in the morning. She was the largest cochin at one time, but the other 2 are beatiful compared to her now. Feathers seem small and dull looking.
I spend enough time with them, and the flock is small, so its easy to notice changes.
Am I missing something else here? Vitamins maybe?
Flock History is : 3 bantam cochins, 1 wynadotte, 1 EE, 1 Sex Link. All around a year old. They eat a blend of flockraiser/omega 3 Purina sparingly, and grit and oyster shell on the side, and I give them a scratch blend everyday with a lot of BOSS. I cast it around a 6000 sq ft outdoor run that is partial woods and partial green grass pasture. they pretty much stay under the trees most days rummaging around. 1 tsp of ACV to a half gallon of water, changed daily.
The thinning cochin in question is a work horse. She is the first one in the yard scratching away and the last one in at night. Nothing in her personality or work ethic has changed, but her appearance has gotten gastly thin. It happened over the course of a few weeks.
Worried, I wormed them all about a month ago. Wazine, 10 days wait, followed up with something else, 14 days wait. I also gave her Tylan 50 antibiotic for 5 days orally thinking I was missing something.
She is still thinning more, and frail looking, but acts just fine. I dont believe she is molting because I dont see any abundance of feathers anywhere. Still lays 5 out of 7 days, eats, drinks and carries on like nothing is wrong. Waste looks normal, and always has. None of the other chickens appear to be getting thin. If anything, the warm weather has brought on the bugs and grass and they are getting plumper.
Her crop is full at dusk and empty in the morning. She was the largest cochin at one time, but the other 2 are beatiful compared to her now. Feathers seem small and dull looking.
I spend enough time with them, and the flock is small, so its easy to notice changes.
Am I missing something else here? Vitamins maybe?
