Hey all, we have had a second chicken start acting ill. First one drank excessively, then stopped moving, eating and drinking, had green, then yellow poop, and slowly died.
This one is an 10 month old green queen easter egger. She is lethargic, hunched, drinking CONSTANTLY, like 10oz in two hours if I let her. Poops are explosively watery (no surprise), and were very greenish. After putting charcoal and ropa poultry in her water for a day, poops are more brown (somehow not black!). When I took water away overnight poops looked normal, but are back to mostly water. Yesterday she ate, today she has not, like the first one who died. She is very thin, and it may have been weeks since she last laid an egg. I have done two days of Corid just in case, but it doesn't really look like coccidiosis.
Other posters have said all these symptoms are consistent w/ reproductive infection. If it's salpingitis, that can be salmonella or e. Coli.
Y'all, I'm pregnant, another family member had an organ transplant. Several other chickens in the flock are starting to look lethargic and "off." We love our chickens, but they are for egg laying. If this was you, would you throw in the towel, euthanize the sick bird, and get a necropsy to find out what's going on? Practically, is this a health and safety risk for the humans?
This one is an 10 month old green queen easter egger. She is lethargic, hunched, drinking CONSTANTLY, like 10oz in two hours if I let her. Poops are explosively watery (no surprise), and were very greenish. After putting charcoal and ropa poultry in her water for a day, poops are more brown (somehow not black!). When I took water away overnight poops looked normal, but are back to mostly water. Yesterday she ate, today she has not, like the first one who died. She is very thin, and it may have been weeks since she last laid an egg. I have done two days of Corid just in case, but it doesn't really look like coccidiosis.
Other posters have said all these symptoms are consistent w/ reproductive infection. If it's salpingitis, that can be salmonella or e. Coli.
Y'all, I'm pregnant, another family member had an organ transplant. Several other chickens in the flock are starting to look lethargic and "off." We love our chickens, but they are for egg laying. If this was you, would you throw in the towel, euthanize the sick bird, and get a necropsy to find out what's going on? Practically, is this a health and safety risk for the humans?