Sad Chicken

[Rozzie]

You could try giving her some electrolytes (unflavored Pedialyte) with baby vitamins (the type WITHOUT iron) in it. It's sure not going to hurt anything and might help her some.

 

[ChicknCharm]

Could she be broody????? When our hens go broody they will do just that. Try putting her near a nest box with a bunch of fake eggs. Maybe she really wants to sit on some???

She is so pretty, her comb and eyes look healthy. Oh, I hope she gets better. Our hens get super moody when broody....when I take them out of the box and force them to eat, they do just what your photo shows...squat right back down and mope.

Keep us posted.

 

[babsbag]

I agree that your hen probably isn't feeling well. I would be hesitant to worm her if she is under the weather. Worming is tough on them. Can you take some poo in to a vet and ask for a fecal? Any vet should be able to do it.

If she has loose stools, have you seen any blood in them? My thought would be coccidia. It usually attacks young chickens, but it can be in older ones as well. I am no chicken expert but it seems that I have had to treat just about every group of chickens I have had for cocci. It is an easy treatment, you just add the corid to the water and treat everyone. The nice thing is that the treatment won't hurt them if they don't have coccidia.

Good luck with her and I hope she perks up.

 

[drumstick diva]

She is so pretty and doesn't look like she has been injured or attacked , by other chickens or anything else. Do you think she may have found bad and eaten it? When I first read your post I thought maybe a stroke, or head injury. Do you think if you put her somewhere by herself with food and water, that she might do better?

 

[Dju]

Thanks for your compliments guys, our chickens are our babies and we try to mother them and spoil them as much as possible, they're all usually so bright and chipper with gleaming feathers and very affectionate, it's just something in particular seems to be wrong with THIS flock. First the Black Australorp (Sasha) nearly died as a chick so we had to force-feed her back to health, then as pullets, our white Leghorn (Snow White) got attacked by magpies and had a huge gash in her head and we had to rush her off to the vets and she stayed there for a week and when she returned, she became the bottom most chook in the pecking order and all the fighting problems between our happy little family started. About a week ago, one of our Isa Browns (Spot) started limping (for reasons unknown to us because I felt her leg and while there's some tenderness in that area, I don't think it's broken), and the limping it getting much worse recently, and now this with Youhzni! I feel like we're doing something wrong--our old flock never used to get sick/mysteriouslyinjured! The only chicken we have that remained problem-free from birth is Princess, our other Isa Brown.

I'm not sure whether she's broody, I didn't think about that at all actually, but don't they make broody noises when they start? So far the only noise I hear from her is these slow, weak raspy clucks. She's moving around a bit more in the backyard though, didn't have her dinner but she had a little bit of meat offcuts we offered her, before she started aimlessly walking around again. We're keeping her under observation, we bought them some wormers so they're going through a no-drinking stage at the moment but in the morning we'll give them all the wormers and see how she's doing.

Vets aren't really an option right now, we're a bit tight on cash and the last thing my mother wants to do is take a chicken in to see a vet (I think she'd sooner strangle Youhzni and eat her!

). Youhzni has moved out of her corner though and she's slowly walking around a bit, though she's still not 100%, so all we can do now is try the wormers and wait I guess.

 

[laturcotte1]

Have you thought about Maercks?

 

[laturcotte1]

Sorry Merek's Disease

 

[Dju]

I should say not because I've never heard of it before

 

[Dju]

Good news for anyone who is interested, she's bright and chipper again after the worming today!

Now we just have to sort out why Spot is still limping