thin chicken advice needed

[michaelsnny]

hi every one some advice would really help been keeping 2 chickens for a while in uk they live in a large outdoor enclosure both look well from outside they lay lovely good eggs everyday they eat layer food plus scatter and in afternoon some salad and scraps but not to much as learnt from preveous mistakes about too many treats they get to free range in garden every day aswell but one of the chickens seem very thin when you pick her up around her breast bone she seems healthey but its quite worrying should i try feeding her up this also worrys me as preveously then ive tryed to do this with other chickens theyve flattley refused to eat their layer food afterwoods it had the reverse afect of what i wanted sorry if this is wrong forum to wasnt to sure what it came under any advice would really help thankyou

 

[Fancychooklady]

Hi and
Do you worm your chickens? A heavy load of worms can be devastating to a chickens health.
Are there any other symptoms ? Wheezing, clear fluid in the nostrils any foul smells?
Here's an article on worms and flubinvet is available in the UK.

http://poultrykeeper.com/general-chickens/worming-chickens

 

[michaelsnny]

hi thanx for your advice wrong or right but ive been using diatomaceous earth i will have to try a diffrent wormer apart from this thin issue they show no signs of being unhealthey totaley opposite really ill get some diffrent worm treatment asap any recomendations in uk so things might be a bit diffrent thankyou

 

[michaelsnny]

thanx ill try Flubenvet

 

[Fancychooklady]

No worries, hope you get to the bottom of this. Let us know how you go.