- Aug 31, 2013
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We ( my daughter and son in law and grandkids) have a 3 1/2 yr old chicken that has been a little "off" for a few days but has been eating and drinking a little bit. She has lost weight and been getting more listless but ate dried meal worms yesterday. Last night , Her breast had sunken in and her comb turned darker and flopped over. This morning the coop area she shares with one other chicken had massive diarrhea and she is completely lethargic. There is no one (vet) in San Angelo that treats chickens or has any advice,information, etc. My daughter said she had cleaned stool off her bum about two weeks ago. The chicken is not a dearly loved pet who we would desperately try to take to a large city to pay hundreds of dollars to save. I called Ideal Poultry but they were only able to validate that it probably wasn't a bird to human transmissable disease and that the other chicken who is acting normally and still laying, eating, drinking Probably hasn't caught anything. Infections typically have the incubation phase, the acute symptomatic phase recovery phase.. So I'm speculating that the one other chicken is ok ..My son in law will probaby come home and "put her to sleep" /kill her to put her out of her misery. My questions are: what is this? Could we have prevented this? Besides seriously sanitizing the coop by scrubbing w dilute bleach water, what else should we do? We have a separate coop with 9 chicks that are about four months old that we've had since one day old. Should we put down Seven dust? . Check the stool visually for worms?
The very sick/dying chicken had mites a month or so ago but Seven dust in the coop area got rid of them. Just stressed out about what to do.
ANY help suggestions, etc is greatly appreciated.
Thanks Sue
The very sick/dying chicken had mites a month or so ago but Seven dust in the coop area got rid of them. Just stressed out about what to do.
ANY help suggestions, etc is greatly appreciated.
Thanks Sue