Something’s killing my flock

[RumneyRoost]

If you could get your hands on some antibiotics it could be worth a try. If an egg broke or she laid internally there could be an infection brewing.

Otherwise I would just let her hang with her friends. You can try separating her a few times a day and offering high value foods like scrambled eggs, wet cat food, meal worms, tuna, fruits and veggies, etc.

 

[Farm life101]

Animals mostly don't show pain. Nature's way. You could try and give her vitamin water or yogurt, When I say give her I mean an eye dropper into her mouth. But something else can be very wrong. You can keep her going a little longer but I do not think she will be getting over this. A hen can lay a shell less egg if she is stressed like a dog or child chased her. But would be fine and go back to normal very quickly.

Okay, I believe I ran out of the vitamins for their water so I can go out and get some tomorrow, I can’t think of anything that could have stressed her out unless we had a hawk try to get them.

I think at this point I would let her out with the flock, see how she does.

I’ve been letting her out every other day or once every 3 days with them so she dosent get depressed and she seems fine with them and stays with them for most of the time. No other chickens are acting sick o

If you could get your hands on some antibiotics it could be worth a try. If an egg broke or she laid internally there could be an infection brewing.

Otherwise I would just let her hang with her friends. You can try separating her a few times a day and offering high value foods like scrambled eggs, wet cat food, meal worms, tuna, fruits and veggies, etc.

i don’t even know how I didn’t think about giving her some scrambled eggs Is there any specific antibiotics that I should try to get or will any work?

 

[Farm life101]

Would amoxicillin or ciprofloxacin work?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Would amoxicillin or ciprofloxacin work?

She's eating/drinking, active(?), crop is emptying overnight, poop is normal, no lice/mites, she's been wormed....what are you trying to treat?

 

[Farm life101]

She's eating/drinking, active(?), crop is emptying overnight, poop is normal, no lice/mites, she's been wormed....what are you trying to treat?

@RumneyRoost mentioned that she could have an infection from a broken shell so if that’s the case then I’m wondering if those medications would work. She’s not eating her normal feed and hasn’t eaten anything I’ve given her today and when I put her out this morning she just layed down instead of staying with the flock but she still walks around in her cage.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

@RumneyRoost mentioned that she could have an infection from a broken shell so if that’s the case then I’m wondering if those medications would work. She’s not eating her normal feed and hasn’t eaten anything I’ve given her today and when I put her out this morning she just layed down instead of staying with the flock but she still walks around in her cage.

Did she have a broken shell?

 

[Farm life101]

Did she have a broken shell?

A few days before this all started she had laid an egg that had no shell and as far as I could tell no membrane, just the insides of an egg. But I never really saw her trying to push out anything after that so that’s why I wasn’t thinking anything happened but at this point that’s the only thing I think could be wrong with her

 

[Farm life101]

I set up a trail camera to record her and see what she dose. She cleans herself about 2-3 times a day, scratched around in her cage as if she foraging, walks around normally and is active almost all day and she even looks up trying to see if she can get out sometimes. I got her some sunflower raisin scratch and she seems to be eating some of that and she is drinking electrolyte, probiotic water now and she has grit available to her as well as her normal feed which she dosent even touch. She went crazy for mealworms thing morning though. She is still EXTREMELY skinny though and it dosent make any sense. Her face is a normal color and I don’t see anything abnormal on her. Please, any help at all will be much appreciated

 

[JuChicks]

To deworm her, try using diatomaceous earth. It is all-natural. You can look up how to administer it to your flock's food supply. She may also have coccidiosis but that is less probable. Symptoms include not moving much, droopy wings, and head. Diarrhea and not being hungry. You can also pick up some medication at Tractor Supply. You need to get Corid, look up the ratio of Corid to water for chickens to administer to the waterer. You would need to treat the whole flock because it spreads easily, which may also explain why multiple hens have died.

 

[Farm life101]

To deworm her, try using diatomaceous earth. It is all-natural. You can look up how to administer it to your flock's food supply. She may also have coccidiosis but that is less probable. Symptoms include not moving much, droopy wings, and head. Diarrhea and not being hungry. You can also pick up some medication at Tractor Supply. You need to get Corid, look up the ratio of Corid to water for chickens to administer to the waterer. You would need to treat the whole flock because it spreads easily, which may also explain why multiple hens have died.

I usually give my girls DE once a month for about a week in their food So I can just put some on mealworms maybe and feed her them but I used the safeguard de wormer for her. I thought that maybe the hens I’ve had die could be something related to each other but none of their symptoms are the same which is why I’m just so confused. I’ve got some corid at home so I can try that, it won’t hurt if they don’t have anything though, right? I’m stopping at my feed store today so I’ll just check out the shelves and see if they have something to maybe help her put on weight or something??