Possible ideas why my pullet/hen is ill

[andreanar]

Get her inside, in a warm area, cover 3 sides of her crate to make it dark. Give her some calcium...either tums or whatever you have. You can just open her beak and shove the tums to the back (not down the throat). She should swallow. If not, you can crush , or if its powder, mix with just a little oil or h20 and soak it up in a small piece of bread and feed it to her. Or very carefully drip the calcium water into her beak with a syringe.

You can put her in the sink and soak her in warm water and massage her belly.

 

[Liz Longhi]

here are two of the others I bought from that hatchery ( New Hampshire’s)

Please note all their legs are pale despite alfalfa, fresh spinach added to their diet,grapes, meal worms,calcium supplements, oats and layer pellets. ( plus their back yard adventures for extra grass and critters)

They are slowly coming around to scraps. They wouldn’t touch them at first so it has been a process getting them on spinach and such

 

[Kiki]

I will examine and photograph her droppings when she goes. (Recently placed in isolation)

In the flock it is hard for me to determine the amount she drank or ate ( the others have ravenous appetites) and of course droppings to match so also fecal discharge was a guessing game as to who did it.

Yes I have calcium capsules ( for me) where should I add the powder? In her water ( that she has been drinking quite a bit)

Put a pill in her mouth. If she is having trouble laying an egg the calcium will help. Give her a pill a day for three days straight.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

The sick bird’s comb and wattles are much smaller then the other 2 New Hampshire’s.
Did you check the birds for mites?

 

[Kiki]

here are two of the others I bought from that hatchery ( New Hampshire’s)

Please note all their legs are pale despite alfalfa, fresh spinach added to their diet,grapes, meal worms,calcium supplements, oats and layer pellets. ( plus their back yard adventures for extra grass and critters)

They are slowly coming around to scraps. They wouldn’t touch them at first so it has been a process getting them on spinach and such

Do you feed treats daily?

I would stop all treats and feed only a complete layer feed.

 

[Liz Longhi]

Yes I give treats daily but only if they eat their pellets.

The sick girl is isolated and only has some pellets, dry alfalfa and water

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Is her crop full?

 

[Liz Longhi]

The sick bird’s comb and wattles are much smaller then the other 2 New Hampshire’s.
Did you check the birds for mites?

She has always been like this and this is why I thought she is younger than the others.

One had a large comb and waddles laid two days after I got her.
2 others had small combs and waddles which grew out like the oldest and started laying as well.

Yolko ono’s comb and waddles have not grown out so I supposed it was because she is still young.

 

[Liz Longhi]

Get her inside, in a warm area, cover 3 sides of her crate to make it dark. Give her some calcium...either tums or whatever you have. You can just open her beak and shove the tums to the back (not down the throat). She should swallow. If not, you can crush , or if its powder, mix with just a little oil or h20 and soak it up in a small piece of bread and feed it to her. Or very carefully drip the calcium water into her beak with a syringe.

You can put her in the sink and soak her in warm water and massage her belly.

I have her on the porch in a pet crate today it is 80 so heat isn’t going to be an issue.

She won’t eat bread none of my chickens like it so I will give her powder calcium

 

[Liz Longhi]

Is her crop full?

This is going to sound bad but I am not sure what it should feel like.
I felt her crop and I feel a lump, so yes. I added apple vinager to her water thinking maybe she is experiencing digestive problems.

With my minimal knowledge I am trying everything I can think of. Poor girl