Possible ideas why my pullet/hen is ill

[Kiki]

Ok I will get this product as well.

Just to be clear. I have applied this in the coop and nesting boxes from day 1.

Periodically through the run ( after dries up from rain) for clean dusting.

I feel to be meticulous about the coop. I clean it weekly with new shavings and new dusting for parasites.

With this said, I will still try the other product. Anything for happy healthy girls

Maybe you have just been lucky at keeping the bugs away. I just don't want you to waste money on something that won't rid them should you run into them. It is also bad for the chickens to breath DE in.

 

[Liz Longhi]

Maybe you have just been lucky at keeping the bugs away. I just don't want you to waste money on something that won't rid them should you run into them. It is also bad for the chickens to breath DE in.

I appreciate this information

I will change up ASAP.

I love all animals And I try to give them the best conditions possible.

 

[Liz Longhi]

Tonight I looked for mites and still didn’t see any. I don’t know if I am missing something here

She seems a bit better. She protested to the interruption and stood up and went a bit around the kennel to avoid me. However no way near her usual self. she is a very hard girl to catch normally and gets super crazy when cornered.

Her poo is rather “diarrhea” very wet shavings and little fecal matter.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Did you feel her abdomen for bloat/swelling?

Her being able to poop is good. She was drinking quite a bit right? That would make for loose watery stool.
She still may have a soft shell egg she's trying to pass or she may have some other reproductive problem.
I would check her crop first thing in the morning as well to make sure it's empty.

 

[Liz Longhi]

Yes she was drinking quite a bit of water today.

Her abdomin did not feel hard or extended. I didn’t feel a lump ( like internal egg)

Will check her crop again in the morning.

It does seem like the isolation did her well but that may be just due to the fact she was leaving the flock ( hiding) I suspect that she may not have been drinking as much as she should have been. Not going to the water stations where the others were.

In isolation I placed her water right in front of her with food as well. She only had to dip her beak.

I hope it is just a soft egg that the calcium supplements can help her with

Fingers crossed

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Yes she was drinking quite a bit of water today.

Her abdomin did not feel hard or extended. I didn’t feel a lump ( like internal egg)

Will check her crop again in the morning.

It does seem like the isolation did her well but that may be just due to the fact she was leaving the flock ( hiding) I suspect that she may not have been drinking as much as she should have been. Not going to the water stations where the others were.

In isolation I placed her water right in front of her with food as well. She only had to dip her beak.

I hope it is just a soft egg that the calcium supplements can help her with

Fingers crossed

I hope she is feeling better in the morning, keep us posted.

 

[Liz Longhi]

Unfortunately she is not better.

Her crop is empty, still has a soft belly with no bumps that I can feel.

She is not drinking or eating yet this morning.

Last night she had poos all watery.

She now lays to one side with her eyes closed.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Unfortunately she is not better.

Her crop is empty, still has a soft belly with no bumps that I can feel.

She is not drinking or eating yet this morning.

Last night she had poos all watery.

She now lays to one side with her eyes closed.

 

[Liz Longhi]

I can’t see any reason for her change.

The rest of the girls are doing well.

I can only think she has a reproductive problem.

She is the only one not laying. She has not grown out her comb and waddles. Wasn’t squatting.

I associated her difference to that she might have been younger.

Haven’t given up hope but looking grim this am

 

[Kiki]

I can’t see any reason for her change.

The rest of the girls are doing well.

I can only think she has a reproductive problem.

She is the only one not laying. She has not grown out her comb and waddles. Wasn’t squatting.

I associated her difference to that she might have been younger.

Haven’t given up hope but looking grim this am

Are you going to put her down?