TOP HAT HEN is SICK

[Tammy Abrams]

Please help:

I have a hen that is about 2 months old, she has started to walk with her tail down and acts if like she does not feel very well. I have watched her and these are the things I have noticed over the last several days

eats very little, stays with group yet stands away from them, tail down, slow walking, very quite, poo is watery and white.

Please help, I don't want her to be sick and I don't want her to get my other baby's sick! Any help would be great

PS she has been sick like this for about a week

NO CHANGE IN FEED or ENVIRONMENT (live in TX) so heat has been in 100's

 

[Popcorn]

Any change in feed or environment?

 

[Tammy Abrams]

no changes in chic scratch or housing area. I do feed them table scraps...have been doing that from the time they were about 2 wks old. they dont get much as there is only two of us in house. so they might get peels one day and then a small bowl of left overs the next.

other chic's seem to be just find, running around and scratchin etc. no problems that I can tell.

 

[froggiesheins]

Seperate the sick one...bring her in the house. Start giving her electrolytes, .5 poly-vi-sol [w/o iron] once a day and 400us Vit. E 2x a day. You can mix this into favorite foods and/ or use a syringe. She MIGHT be having a vitamin deficency and/or heat stress. IF you can bring all your chicks in during the heat of the day even better!
Is she skkinny?

 

[Tammy Abrams]

Yes, she does seem to be skinny, comparied to others...she is a Polish Bantam so she is smaller than other chic's but compaired to her sister she does seem skinny!

 

[froggiesheins]

I forgot to ask this...when you say table scraps and you mention "PEELS" what kind are they??

 

[Reurra]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/chicken-treat-chart-the-best-treats-for-backyard-chickens

If one has been poisoned its likely they all would be affected, but i would keep a close eye out.

 

[Tammy Abrams]

they have had watermelon, melon, apple, tomatoes, cucumbers peels, tator peels, HB eggs, peach, plums, what ever we eat. I mean what ever my Son don't eat. LOL you chic are better than dogs. bwahaha....I always tell my son when he throws things in trash the chickens would have loved that...now I get .............. CHICKENS.......Chickens.......chickens.....do they eat anything?

 

[Tammy Abrams]

Yes, I have this posted to frig.....lol....kinda like a Chicken grocery list !

 

[leadwolf1]

Seperate the sick one...bring her in the house. Start giving her electrolytes, .5 poly-vi-sol [w/o iron] once a day and 400us Vit. E 2x a day. You can mix this into favorite foods and/ or use a syringe. She MIGHT be having a vitamin deficency and/or heat stress. IF you can bring all your chicks in during the heat of the day even better!
Is she skkinny?

This is way too much for an 8 week old chick...

I am more thinking that it is coccidiosis. Treat with Corid.