Sick 7 Year Old Hen

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What are you using to treat the lice?
See if you can find a Permethrin based poultry spray or dust to treat your hens and their housing.

I drown them.

 

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I drown them.

I can't get the other stuff.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

How do you drown the lice? Are you washing the chickens?

Do you have a pet or feed store? See if you can find a louse powder or spray for birds. Maybe Pestene?

 

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How do you drown the lice? Are you washing the chickens?

Do you have a pet or feed store? See if you can find a louse powder or spray for birds. Maybe Pestene?

Yes washing the chooks, yes, it works.
And no we don't have a feed store, the closest we have to that is a real estate agent and they only sell chicken food.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I see.

Lice mainly live on the chicken, but can be found in the bedding and nooks/crannies of nesting boxes, roosting bars, etc. so eliminating the from the housing is needed in addition to getting them off the chickens.
Do you order in any supplies at certain times? Maybe you can order something to help you get on top of this.

 

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I see.

Lice mainly live on the chicken, but can be found in the bedding and nooks/crannies of nesting boxes, roosting bars, etc. so eliminating the from the housing is needed in addition to getting them off the chickens.
Do you order in any supplies at certain times? Maybe you can order something to help you get on top of this.

Okay, thanks for the help!

 

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She is looking better... but..... acting weird.... Like a rooster.

 

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She is looking better... but..... acting weird.... Like a rooster.

Few questions, facts and assumptions about it:
I think she could have hurt her overy, somehow, and damaged it...? She hasn't laid since she was looking off.
She has started making that 'titbiting' sound that roosters make when they find bugs or whatever, she could also be broody, but I doubt that she would be wondering when she is broody. I also heard a really odd sound this morning. It was a really weird crow, not from either of my two crowing rooster (and cockerel). I do have young cockerels that haven't started crowing yet: but they are only 9 weeks old. I think she might have crowed...? She also has lost all trace of femininity in her voice, her voice is really deep now.

Can hens 'turn' into roosters? Like... not the reproductive stuff, but like getting the feathers, and crowing?

 

[LaFleche]

Few questions, facts and assumptions about it:
I think she could have hurt her overy, somehow, and damaged it...? She hasn't laid since she was looking off.
She has started making that 'titbiting' sound that roosters make when they find bugs or whatever, she could also be broody, but I doubt that she would be wondering when she is broody. I also heard a really odd sound this morning. It was a really weird crow, not from either of my two crowing rooster (and cockerel). I do have young cockerels that haven't started crowing yet: but they are only 9 weeks old. I think she might have crowed...? She also has lost all trace of femininity in her voice, her voice is really deep now.

Can hens 'turn' into roosters? Like... not the reproductive stuff, but like getting the feathers, and crowing?

Elderly hens can develop spurs and rooster feathering, usually as a consequence of ovary disorders (hen-o-pause, tumors etc.). They may even start to crow.

 

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Elderly hens can develop spurs and rooster feathering, usually as a consequence of ovary disorders (hen-o-pause, tumors etc.). They may even start to crow.

Wow..... I guess I have another crowing rooster/hen thingy!