- Jun 20, 2012
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This is definitely my least favorite part of chicken keeping!
Here we go:
I have an Australorp who is almost 1. In the last couple of weeks she has stopped laying. Before that I noticed a small bald patch beneath her vent, but shrugged it off because she was acting fine as well as laying regularly. In the last week her energy levels are a little lower than normal. She hangs back from the flock and her tail is sometimes up and sometimes horizontal. She's also a little fluffed out. Her stools are watery, but this also seemed to be her normal before she started acting ill.
I dusted her today with DE. Didn't find any visible mites, but I did catch her scratching (?) her butt earlier. What about worms? A bad molt? I also have been reading about internal laying. :/
Anything obvious going on here? Things I can try that won't hurt?
Oh, she has 4 other coop mates who appear fine, normal stools, laying every day, no bald butt.
Thanks.
Here we go:
I have an Australorp who is almost 1. In the last couple of weeks she has stopped laying. Before that I noticed a small bald patch beneath her vent, but shrugged it off because she was acting fine as well as laying regularly. In the last week her energy levels are a little lower than normal. She hangs back from the flock and her tail is sometimes up and sometimes horizontal. She's also a little fluffed out. Her stools are watery, but this also seemed to be her normal before she started acting ill.
I dusted her today with DE. Didn't find any visible mites, but I did catch her scratching (?) her butt earlier. What about worms? A bad molt? I also have been reading about internal laying. :/
Anything obvious going on here? Things I can try that won't hurt?
Oh, she has 4 other coop mates who appear fine, normal stools, laying every day, no bald butt.
Thanks.
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