The_Flock
Songster
Hi Peeps. I have a hen who is almost a year old. I have posted on here months before about her and her sneezing.
Her name is Quinn and she's a Columbian Rock. She's been sneezing since I let her out of the brooder and put her outside when she was a couple of months old. I gave her antibiotics when she was wee and it cleared nothing up. She's had at least 4 courses of antibiotics. 3 for possible respiratory issues, 1 for cocci. The sneezing has never ended.
Now it's progressed to her breathing rattling, but mainly only when we pick her up. I've been wanting to try benadryl, but I've read such differing opinions on using it everyday. I've just started giving her honey with On Guard oil and Oregano oil, and that usually makes them rattlier until everything clears out and then it makes them much better.
She has issues with her nostrils too. They don't have mucous coming out of them, and they don't really run, but I have to open them from flaky skin blocking them about once a week. And they are raw. I clean them and put a tad of polysporin on them with each cleaning. Her eyes are very clear.
She's just started really sneezing when she eats, and open mouth breathing, here and there, at the same time. And she seems a bit slower at times, not all the time though.
If this was a respiratory infection I would think it would've either healed up from any one of the antibiotic courses she was on, or killed her.
She's not laying right now, and the last egg she laid was thin shelled. I do have a few girls right now who are broody, or sort of broody. So I'm not eliminating that (but kinda doubt she's broody).
The flock was tested for worms about a month back and they were all clear, but a bit more than normal cocci was present, so that's why the cocci meds.
I've ordered some Safeguard for gapeworm as I'm completely clueless as to what this is.
None of the other girls are showing anything. I have one hen who was petrified after a fox attack and now has a weakened immunity, and she's not gotten any issues related to respiratory.
Quinn does have wet poops right now. I feed them fermented layer mash, with layer pellets as the back up food. I'm not able to drain all of the water out of the fermented feed because I add flax seed (for Quinn) and they make the water like jelly. I also have a scissor beaked girl, Cosmo, who I put watered down layer pellets out for, she eats it so well and has gained a great amount of weight because of this. So I'm wondering if the water in the feed is causing the runny poops.
Lately after I handle her she almost seems stunned. She's not at all scared of me, or me picking her up. But stays in one spot for a while after she's been handled.
I'm at a loss here and would love some help. Please and thank you.
❤
Her name is Quinn and she's a Columbian Rock. She's been sneezing since I let her out of the brooder and put her outside when she was a couple of months old. I gave her antibiotics when she was wee and it cleared nothing up. She's had at least 4 courses of antibiotics. 3 for possible respiratory issues, 1 for cocci. The sneezing has never ended.
Now it's progressed to her breathing rattling, but mainly only when we pick her up. I've been wanting to try benadryl, but I've read such differing opinions on using it everyday. I've just started giving her honey with On Guard oil and Oregano oil, and that usually makes them rattlier until everything clears out and then it makes them much better.
She has issues with her nostrils too. They don't have mucous coming out of them, and they don't really run, but I have to open them from flaky skin blocking them about once a week. And they are raw. I clean them and put a tad of polysporin on them with each cleaning. Her eyes are very clear.
She's just started really sneezing when she eats, and open mouth breathing, here and there, at the same time. And she seems a bit slower at times, not all the time though.
If this was a respiratory infection I would think it would've either healed up from any one of the antibiotic courses she was on, or killed her.
She's not laying right now, and the last egg she laid was thin shelled. I do have a few girls right now who are broody, or sort of broody. So I'm not eliminating that (but kinda doubt she's broody).
The flock was tested for worms about a month back and they were all clear, but a bit more than normal cocci was present, so that's why the cocci meds.
I've ordered some Safeguard for gapeworm as I'm completely clueless as to what this is.
None of the other girls are showing anything. I have one hen who was petrified after a fox attack and now has a weakened immunity, and she's not gotten any issues related to respiratory.
Quinn does have wet poops right now. I feed them fermented layer mash, with layer pellets as the back up food. I'm not able to drain all of the water out of the fermented feed because I add flax seed (for Quinn) and they make the water like jelly. I also have a scissor beaked girl, Cosmo, who I put watered down layer pellets out for, she eats it so well and has gained a great amount of weight because of this. So I'm wondering if the water in the feed is causing the runny poops.
Lately after I handle her she almost seems stunned. She's not at all scared of me, or me picking her up. But stays in one spot for a while after she's been handled.
I'm at a loss here and would love some help. Please and thank you.
❤
