Sick chicken

[kay-chckn]

I posted a little while ago about my hen, I ended up consulting a vet because she didn’t seem any better, the vet told me to change the wormer I used to kilverm, I used it and my chicken seemed fine for a day but then went back to runny poos and seeming lethargic, I’m having to wash her bum again as it’s getting hotter here and I don’t want her to get fly strike or anything like that. I had also trimmed her bum feathers to try avoid more poopy accidents. I really don’t understand because she’s feeling lighter but still eating and drinking and rummaging around the garden, she is the only one out of my 6 brown shavers to be acting this way and I don’t know what to do

 

[Debbie292d]

I went to your other thread to see how this started.

Is she laying eggs or none since?

Does that stink worse than the usual chicken poop?

That's looking like it could be vent gleet to me, so I think I'd go with some probiotics for a few days to see if that takes care of it. After dewormers and other treatments, it's advisable to put them on a ritual of alternating vitamin water or suppliments with probiotics for a few days/weeks anyway.

You can purchase priobiotic powders for their water or some like Kalmbachs makes a crumbled additive for their feed. Also, Greek yogurt is very high in probiotics.

If you agree she's got vent gleet, you can buy the equivalent of Monistat and smear that on her vent area after you bathe it and pat dry.