Sick or possibky just learning how to lay an egg?

[Hal682]

Grain and layer pellets are two different things.
Mix the starter in with the layer.
It's up to you if you want to switch. I don't feel providing the minimum of basic nutrition is the best.
I would also start supplementing with one of the two boosters I cited. I'd start with once daily for a week for the girl acting off then supplement in the feed for the entire flock twice weekly or during stressful times.

Just saw this..ok thank you.. The hen still seems ok..i noticed it when i talk she does the weird head thing..maybe my voice sounds weird in the coop. She doesnt do it outside? Maybe just a weird chicken..

 

[Hal682]

Grain and layer pellets are two different things.
Mix the starter in with the layer.
It's up to you if you want to switch. I don't feel providing the minimum of basic nutrition is the best.
I would also start supplementing with one of the two boosters I cited. I'd start with once daily for a week for the girl acting off then supplement in the feed for the entire flock twice weekly or during stressful times.

Lol and i do call layer pellets grain..ooops.. Its layer pellets ill try to remember this. thank you again. Im off to get other things you sugested ..

 

[rosemarythyme]

If she has wry neck you'll want to get some vit E (I use liquid form with a dropper for humans) in addition to the selenium, which is what's in the BOSS. A couple drops a day in a small serving of wet feed is a easy way to get them to eat it. Wry neck can take weeks to resolve.

 

[Hal682]

If she has wry neck you'll want to get some vit E (I use liquid form with a dropper for humans) in addition to the selenium, which is what's in the BOSS. A couple drops a day in a small serving of wet feed is a easy way to get them to eat it. Wry neck can take weeks to resolve.

If she has wry neck you'll want to get some vit E (I use liquid form with a dropper for humans) in addition to the selenium, which is what's in the BOSS. A couple drops a day in a small serving of wet feed is a easy way to get them to eat it. Wry neck can take weeks to resolve.

I got poultry cell..only thing i could find with both vitamin e and selenium..how much vitamin e and selinium? Will this work? I just put some in water and mixed some with feed a little bit. She ate it right out of my hand seems to like it

 

[Hal682]

I got poultry cell..only thing i could find with both vitamin e and selenium..how much vitamin e and selinium? Will this work? I just put some in water and mixed some with feed a little bit. She ate it right out of my hand seems to like it

 

[Hal682]

Oh and the extra vitamins in the water wont hurt other chickens right?

 

[rosemarythyme]

I haven't used Poultry Cell so I would go with whatever the recommended dosage is on the bottle.

I wouldn't mix it into the flock's water - if the other birds don't need it then no reason to dose them. Either have a separate waterer for the bird you're treating (and have her confined) or put the vitamins in a small food dish with just a tiny bit of food, like 1 Tbsp, and confine her so she's the only one eating it.

 

[Hal682]

Thank you..its so nice getting help from people on this site..very helpful

 

[Sueby]

Is she just looking at you out of one eye? Chickens have 1 eye that sees close up & 1 eye that sees far away. Sometimes you'll see a chicken with its head cocked, it's looking at the sky for predators or looking at something on the ground. I have 1 pullet that is very dramatic about looking at me this way, with her head all cocked. Is that what is happening maybe & it's not her neck?

 

[Hal682]

Is she just looking at you out of one eye? Chickens have 1 eye that sees close up & 1 eye that sees far away. Sometimes you'll see a chicken with its head cocked, it's looking at the sky for predators or looking at something on the ground. I have 1 pullet that is very dramatic about looking at me this way, with her head all cocked. Is that what is happening maybe & it's not her neck?

Lol yes.. She is doing much better now and i do think this is what it may have been..i watch wry neck videos and if it was that she in no way was that bad. And she only seemed to do it when i opened coop door and talked to her..i think a silly girl.. But the vitamins sure dont hurt the birds all look great. My rooster was going thru a long late molt and he looks great now..