3 year old barbu d'anvers hen, not currently laying.
This hen has gone through this before. It comes and goes. It was an issue for he yesterday and I removed her from the flock, because they were disturbed by her behavior and brutalizing her.
These videos are footage of what I would call mild spells. You can tell when they are oncoming because the bird makes a series of panicked sounds before bursting into circles. Within about a minute of circling, she suddenly sees demons and breaks out into full panic, somersaults and flapping wings and scrambling in every direction. While having these episodes she gnashes her mouth. When they are over, she sits in total silence and stillness until the next episode arrests her. They decrease in severity as each episode comes and goes. She had these seizure/schizophrenic/demon possessed moments about every 15 minutes from noon until sundown and when the lights got dark by 6pm she was simply perched sleeping.
Any ideas? I don't know what I should do. I've been mostly ignoring this because by and large, it doesn't happen very often. When it does happen it is very noticeable by the noise happening in the coop. All the birds take turns kicking, biting, tearing feathers from her neck and head, riding her back to rip feathers from her head, like a tetherball and screaming the whole time whilst in the middle of suffering one of these seizures. Then, I must do something, and I keep her in solitary until it is over.
This hen has gone through this before. It comes and goes. It was an issue for he yesterday and I removed her from the flock, because they were disturbed by her behavior and brutalizing her.
These videos are footage of what I would call mild spells. You can tell when they are oncoming because the bird makes a series of panicked sounds before bursting into circles. Within about a minute of circling, she suddenly sees demons and breaks out into full panic, somersaults and flapping wings and scrambling in every direction. While having these episodes she gnashes her mouth. When they are over, she sits in total silence and stillness until the next episode arrests her. They decrease in severity as each episode comes and goes. She had these seizure/schizophrenic/demon possessed moments about every 15 minutes from noon until sundown and when the lights got dark by 6pm she was simply perched sleeping.
Any ideas? I don't know what I should do. I've been mostly ignoring this because by and large, it doesn't happen very often. When it does happen it is very noticeable by the noise happening in the coop. All the birds take turns kicking, biting, tearing feathers from her neck and head, riding her back to rip feathers from her head, like a tetherball and screaming the whole time whilst in the middle of suffering one of these seizures. Then, I must do something, and I keep her in solitary until it is over.
