The EE braggers thread!!!

[Chickies4ever]

My EE's are getting SO orange

 

[LaLa Chickie]

Sorry

I'm sorry for your loss...sometimes we just never know why this happens. It's always sad!

 

[MaineiacJay]

thank you all for your condolences. unfortunately, things are going downhill. since losing Fry, i have taken note on any changes in the other chickens. one seemed very light compared to the others. i checked on her tonight after work and she was on her side in the coop, she wasnt moving when i shined the light in. all the others moved, but she stayed put. i took her out of the coop and set her on the ground and she couldnt even stand, she just fell back onto her side. her wings were out but she was responsive, just no strength.

i brought her inside and wet her down with cool water. she is in the ACed room with a fan on her. i do think it is the heat. it has been in the high 80s and 90s and so humid. when i put that fan on her she perked right up, ruffled her feathers and tried to perch on the side of the tote shes in, but she didnt have enough strength and just kinda fell back down. i set her on the side near the fan where she was trying to jump and thats how she is right now.

outside, they have a tub of water and i made a bowl with water and fruit and froze that, but they didnt seem very interested. the pen and coop is in the shade and i am going to put a fan inside the coop and put another pale of water out there for them because im worried about the others. one of my favorite pullets is getting lighter too but so far she isnt showing any other symptoms. ill check on her again before i go to bed and tomorrow ill get a fan for them. if she doesnt improve, ill bring her inside too.

 

[maryhysong]

thank you all for your condolences. unfortunately, things are going downhill. since losing Fry, i have taken note on any changes in the other chickens. one seemed very light compared to the others. i checked on her tonight after work and she was on her side in the coop, she wasnt moving when i shined the light in. all the others moved, but she stayed put. i took her out of the coop and set her on the ground and she couldnt even stand, she just fell back onto her side. her wings were out but she was responsive, just no strength.

i brought her inside and wet her down with cool water. she is in the ACed room with a fan on her. i do think it is the heat. it has been in the high 80s and 90s and so humid. when i put that fan on her she perked right up, ruffled her feathers and tried to perch on the side of the tote shes in, but she didnt have enough strength and just kinda fell back down. i set her on the side near the fan where she was trying to jump and thats how she is right now.

outside, they have a tub of water and i made a bowl with water and fruit and froze that, but they didnt seem very interested. the pen and coop is in the shade and i am going to put a fan inside the coop and put another pale of water out there for them because im worried about the others. one of my favorite pullets is getting lighter too but so far she isnt showing any other symptoms. ill check on her again before i go to bed and tomorrow ill get a fan for them. if she doesnt improve, ill bring her inside too.

Try giving her some electrolytes and / or vitamins. Even some apple cider vinegar in water with some sugar would probably help. With the heat seems to come a depressed appetite so sometimes I think they don't eat enough. If you have pedialyte that would work gatorade probably would also work but I would probably water that down a little.

 

[Penny Hen]

Try giving her some electrolytes and / or vitamins. Even some apple cider vinegar in water with some sugar would probably help. With the heat seems to come a depressed appetite so sometimes I think they don't eat enough. If you have pedialyte that would work gatorade probably would also work but I would probably water that down a little.

I had to force feed three of my birds when they got so skinny that they were like what you were describing. I had better luck with a bit of baking soda in the water. I tried the vinegar first but it didn't help. The ones not eating had spongy crops like what was described for sour crop though they didn't have the nasty smell. I thought that mabe they had just the beginnig of that and added the baking soda and two of them have returned to eating right after some force feeding and some air conditioning. I need to put some more in the water tomorrow for the third bird. I may have to force feed him again. I poured milk in the layer pellets and then made them open up and pushed it into the back of their mouth so they had to swallow. I did that about 3 times a day until they began to feed themselves again. I also brought them inside where it was cooler for a coulpe of days.

 

[Peach2u]

I found one of my 4 week old OE laying in the yard on it's side yesterday morning. It was fine the night before, in the coop with mom and siblings. I brought it inside and warmed it under a heat lamp. It only got up to 72 yesterday and has been raining for 4 days. Her eyes, nose and mouth are clear and alert. I can see no wounds. I can pinch a toe and she jerks it away. Every so often she tries to stand, peeps loud then falls back to her side. She is a little skinny but not wasted away skinny.

I'm thinking since they free range she might have eaten the wrong thing. She pecks at me when I put my hand in the box to give her sugar water and oatmeal. She eats if I hand feed her but as I said she can't stand up long.

I am stumped as to what is going on. It's not heat stroke nor do I think it is sickness of some kind.

Maybe a hawk almost had her and I scared it away when I came out. But I see no missing feathers or wounds from talons. My puppy is too little 9 weeks old to mess with them and my cat leaves the chickens alone.

Any ideas on what to do?

 

[jerryse]

Could be cocci at that age.Are they still on medicated starter ?If not check for bloody droppings.

 

[eggcited1]

. Newb, this is my roo that is 13 weeks and crowing non stop.

. My favorite, he is just learning to crow. I have 3 Roos and can't decide which to keep!

 

[Peach2u]

Could be cocci at that age.Are they still on medicated starter ?If not check for bloody droppings.

No they are eating laying crumble, table scraps and free ranging with mom. The stool is normal.

She is alert. If it was cocci she would be sleeping a lot, eyes closed with bloody stool. But just in case She is in the house in a disposable box. This is day 2 of being in a box. Day 4 -6 is show time for Coccidia. If that is the case then she will have bloody stool by then and the death rate is very high for young birds with this parasite by day 8 she will be dead from blood loss or on the mend and will then be immune to getting it again.

It has been very wet here but temps have been below normal. The roost is clean and dry. I clean it out once a week. The run is mostly dry, with heavy rain a little creek runs through it. It sits on low lands near the creek. After we first built it and had heavy rain we had 6 inches of standing water in it. So we dug a french drain down one side to solve that. The whole run is covered with tin roofing. Cocci likes hot humid areas. Like the soil around the water bucket. I have mine sitting on square stepping stones. It is easier to scrub that down during cleaning. And keeps the dirt out of the water. Now if they would learn not to spit in the water!

 

[LaLa Chickie]

thank you all for your condolences. unfortunately, things are going downhill. since losing Fry, i have taken note on any changes in the other chickens. one seemed very light compared to the others. i checked on her tonight after work and she was on her side in the coop, she wasnt moving when i shined the light in. all the others moved, but she stayed put. i took her out of the coop and set her on the ground and she couldnt even stand, she just fell back onto her side. her wings were out but she was responsive, just no strength.

i brought her inside and wet her down with cool water. she is in the ACed room with a fan on her. i do think it is the heat. it has been in the high 80s and 90s and so humid. when i put that fan on her she perked right up, ruffled her feathers and tried to perch on the side of the tote shes in, but she didnt have enough strength and just kinda fell back down. i set her on the side near the fan where she was trying to jump and thats how she is right now.

outside, they have a tub of water and i made a bowl with water and fruit and froze that, but they didnt seem very interested. the pen and coop is in the shade and i am going to put a fan inside the coop and put another pale of water out there for them because im worried about the others. one of my favorite pullets is getting lighter too but so far she isnt showing any other symptoms. ill check on her again before i go to bed and tomorrow ill get a fan for them. if she doesnt improve, ill bring her inside too.

I went through this in February, for unknown reasons I had the same responses you are having with my Hen, Lady...I still don't know, maybe female problems. She was only about 2 yrs old and it came on so suddenly and only after a rescue of a Rooster which I got rid of soon after.. She'd just stand and stare and then sit down like she had no strength. It was very painful to watch her go down hill so fast. 5days I think. I was holding her when she passed away. Heartbreaking. She was the Hen in charge until the Rooster came along. Could be a coincidence, but I thought maybe he had something. Later I was told he had leg mites and Lady did show signs of mites or something? on her face and she'd never had them before. So who knows what else he may have had, Thankfully none of the others got whatever she had.