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Hatching
- Apr 12, 2024
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My 2 year old RIR girl is under the weather. We have no vet to see that will see chickens nearby. A few weeks ago she had an impacted crop and we treated that and she went back to normal until this week. I’ve been checking her crop everyday again and it hasn’t been impacted again. No signs of sour crop either. No bad smells, no squishy crop. Her comb and wattles are staying red and large. She eats a little bit here and there. She’s obsessed with drinking water that’s on the ground though. Doesn’t want what’s in the waterer unless you dump some out and then she’s all over it. We have some snow melt she’s gobbling up too.
She’s having diarrhea like in the first photo, she also has a dirty butt but she’s refusing to roost and will only sleep in a nesting box. I’ve attached a photo of her hunched up and diarrhea in the doorway of the coop and a photo of her butt. I was worried about vent gleet but there’s no odor like I’ve been told there should be.
I know my girls are a bit old to worry about coccidosis but there’s been a few droppings with slight blood tinge so they’re all on 5 days of corid right now and we’re worming our flock for the first time with the safeguard goat wormer orally for 5 days…I’m hoping it’s just maybe she’s got some worm infestation from eating dirty snow melt. We live very rural and have all kinds of wild birds they could come across when free ranging.
I’m trying to cover all the basis I can handle at home but, any ideas what might be going on/that I’m not already trying?
She’s having diarrhea like in the first photo, she also has a dirty butt but she’s refusing to roost and will only sleep in a nesting box. I’ve attached a photo of her hunched up and diarrhea in the doorway of the coop and a photo of her butt. I was worried about vent gleet but there’s no odor like I’ve been told there should be.
I know my girls are a bit old to worry about coccidosis but there’s been a few droppings with slight blood tinge so they’re all on 5 days of corid right now and we’re worming our flock for the first time with the safeguard goat wormer orally for 5 days…I’m hoping it’s just maybe she’s got some worm infestation from eating dirty snow melt. We live very rural and have all kinds of wild birds they could come across when free ranging.
I’m trying to cover all the basis I can handle at home but, any ideas what might be going on/that I’m not already trying?