I'm having ongoing health issues with my birds since the middle of August. It all started when I noticed some diarrhea in one of my peahens and then a worm in her poo. I wormed all of my birds (peafowl and chickens) immediately with Fenbendazole for 5 days and not long into the worming I started having diarrhea and other issues with lots of my other birds who had no symptoms before that.
I have 5 laying hens all coming up on 2 years old.
One hen hasn't been affected at all and seems fine. One hen seemed deathly ill overnight but then she laid a soft shelled egg and has been fine since then so I'm not sure if or how that's related.
Two other hens suddenly got bad diarrhea and were also spewing liquid out of their beaks. I gave them all a probiotic, vitamin and electrolyte supplement and ACV. Since then those two have been laying about twice a week each as opposed to 5 or 6 times each as they were doing before. Their diarrhea is now on and off and they are in good form otherwise. I've also switched to fermenting their feed which seems to have helped a lot but I'm still worried about why their droppings are not fully back to normal. They occasionally poo out pure water as well.
The fifth one I am really worried about. Her crop is squishy and never really seems to fill or empty. She does eat but is pooing out a lot of undigested food. I gave her Miconazole twice daily for a week and she seemed to improve a small a bit but has regressed since then and is now doing some poos that look a bit concerning. She is slightly less active than the other hens but not drastically so. She forages, eats, drinks and preens as normal. She's holding her tail downwards most of the time and hasn't laid at all since this started.
As soon as her poos turned a concerning colour I isolated her but she was with the flock before that so I'm really hoping it's nothing infectious. I've restarted the Miconazole and also given her a flush of applesauce and honey with probiotics. She also has her fermented feed and dry layers pellets. She still has a good appetite.
I'll add some photos of the poos I'm concerned about. I do have Toltrazuril for my peafowl but I'm not keen on the egg withdrawal so I also have Amprolium that I can give to the chickens instead. Is there any reason to think coccidiosis might be a concern? Is there anything else infectious I should look out for? Or just keep treating it as if it's sourcrop?
I also have 2 peacocks and 2 peahens all 6 years old and 10 peachicks who are 5 weeks old. I have been posting about the peahens and chicks in the peafowl forum here and here. The peahens have an ongoing poo issue that has very different symptoms to the chickens. They have normal caecal poo (although one has done a couple of dark coloured ones) and their regular poo is mostly small amounts of faecal matter in a pool of creamy white liquid urates.
So far, the peacocks and the other chickens have only had normal poo but I have also seen them do the occasional pure water dropping. It's not happening more than once a day each. Can that be normal if the rest of their poo is fine and they are acting well? One of them is also having a feather issue which I'm going to post about in the peafowl forum.
Sorry this is so long. I'm in a complete mess about all of the different problems and I can't make sense of how they may or may not be all related. My main concern is stopping anything potentially infectious spreading but I would really like to save the sick hen as well if I can. I'd really appreciate any help.
I have 5 laying hens all coming up on 2 years old.
One hen hasn't been affected at all and seems fine. One hen seemed deathly ill overnight but then she laid a soft shelled egg and has been fine since then so I'm not sure if or how that's related.
Two other hens suddenly got bad diarrhea and were also spewing liquid out of their beaks. I gave them all a probiotic, vitamin and electrolyte supplement and ACV. Since then those two have been laying about twice a week each as opposed to 5 or 6 times each as they were doing before. Their diarrhea is now on and off and they are in good form otherwise. I've also switched to fermenting their feed which seems to have helped a lot but I'm still worried about why their droppings are not fully back to normal. They occasionally poo out pure water as well.
The fifth one I am really worried about. Her crop is squishy and never really seems to fill or empty. She does eat but is pooing out a lot of undigested food. I gave her Miconazole twice daily for a week and she seemed to improve a small a bit but has regressed since then and is now doing some poos that look a bit concerning. She is slightly less active than the other hens but not drastically so. She forages, eats, drinks and preens as normal. She's holding her tail downwards most of the time and hasn't laid at all since this started.
As soon as her poos turned a concerning colour I isolated her but she was with the flock before that so I'm really hoping it's nothing infectious. I've restarted the Miconazole and also given her a flush of applesauce and honey with probiotics. She also has her fermented feed and dry layers pellets. She still has a good appetite.
I'll add some photos of the poos I'm concerned about. I do have Toltrazuril for my peafowl but I'm not keen on the egg withdrawal so I also have Amprolium that I can give to the chickens instead. Is there any reason to think coccidiosis might be a concern? Is there anything else infectious I should look out for? Or just keep treating it as if it's sourcrop?
I also have 2 peacocks and 2 peahens all 6 years old and 10 peachicks who are 5 weeks old. I have been posting about the peahens and chicks in the peafowl forum here and here. The peahens have an ongoing poo issue that has very different symptoms to the chickens. They have normal caecal poo (although one has done a couple of dark coloured ones) and their regular poo is mostly small amounts of faecal matter in a pool of creamy white liquid urates.
So far, the peacocks and the other chickens have only had normal poo but I have also seen them do the occasional pure water dropping. It's not happening more than once a day each. Can that be normal if the rest of their poo is fine and they are acting well? One of them is also having a feather issue which I'm going to post about in the peafowl forum.
Sorry this is so long. I'm in a complete mess about all of the different problems and I can't make sense of how they may or may not be all related. My main concern is stopping anything potentially infectious spreading but I would really like to save the sick hen as well if I can. I'd really appreciate any help.