Updates! Sleepy chicken

[Jose11632]

When she sometimes nap she closes one eye

 

[Iluveggers]

Bumping for help.

 

[Swbertrand1]

I'd suspect she's a little weakened if she did, in fact, have worms. They sap the strength of their host because they consume the nutrients the host eats for themselves. The medications may have her a little weakened too, but that's just speculation.

Make sure she's eating and drinking plenty of feed and water. If not, you may need to hand feed her for a day or so. Some water mixed with electrolytes might help too to help her get the jump-start she seems to need. Unfortunately, can't give much more than that.

Fireworks may have played a part, but since that's over, I think she would have bounced back from that by now. For what it's worth, and since we have so many neighbors lighting large explosives on the 4th, we close the coop up and turn on a semi-loud exhaust fan to dull the shock of the explosions - something to consider for future years...

I hope she gets better!

 

[Jose11632]

I'd suspect she's a little weakened if she did, in fact, have worms. They sap the strength of their host because they consume the nutrients the host eats for themselves. The medications may have her a little weakened too, but that's just speculation.

Make sure she's eating and drinking plenty of feed and water. If not, you may need to hand feed her for a day or so. Some water mixed with electrolytes might help too to help her get the jump-start she seems to need. Unfortunately, can't give much more than that.

Fireworks may have played a part, but since that's over, I think she would have bounced back from that by now. For what it's worth, and since we have so many neighbors lighting large explosives on the 4th, we close the coop up and turn on a semi-loud exhaust fan to dull the shock of the explosions - something to consider for future years...

I hope she gets better!

Thank you the fireworks started before the 4th I have electrolytes and vitamins too she has been like this since sunday she slept standing but now she gets comfy in the floor moving her feathers. And doesn’t close her eyes as much. We have been given them medication for a week almost since one of our hens died of cocci and we are deworming since we are going away for a week yes someone is gonna come check on them for food and clean water. The chickens got corid in their water and another container has electrolytes and vitamins.

 

[Jose11632]

I'd suspect she's a little weakened if she did, in fact, have worms. They sap the strength of their host because they consume the nutrients the host eats for themselves. The medications may have her a little weakened too, but that's just speculation.

Make sure she's eating and drinking plenty of feed and water. If not, you may need to hand feed her for a day or so. Some water mixed with electrolytes might help too to help her get the jump-start she seems to need. Unfortunately, can't give much more than that.

Fireworks may have played a part, but since that's over, I think she would have bounced back from that by now. For what it's worth, and since we have so many neighbors lighting large explosives on the 4th, we close the coop up and turn on a semi-loud exhaust fan to dull the shock of the explosions - something to consider for future years...

I hope she gets better!

The rest of the hens are okay. Should I de mite them since a few days before she got like that I saw little bug with some red crawling on her bald spot. I haven’t done it in like months

 

[Swbertrand1]

The rest of the hens are okay. Should I de mite them since a few days before she got like that I saw little bug with some red crawling on her bald spot. I haven’t done it in like months.

I don't think that can hurt, but closely check her for external parasites first. Look VERY closely around her vent, under her wings where the skin folds between the body and the wing, and around her head where you've seen them before. Check her legs and feet for mites too.

Sometimes this takes two people, one to hold the bird and help hold folds of feathers back, the other to search closely. The vent area (from where her eggs exit the body and where she discharges waste) is probably the most important area to check because this seems to be where parasites seem to congregate on a chicken. Check that area CLOSELY.

We've used Diatomaceous Earth (DE) successfully to combat external parasites; others use chemicals like Permethrin Dust (MysteryChicken on this site).

 

[Jose11632]

I don't think that can hurt, but closely check her for external parasites first. Look VERY closely around her vent, under her wings where the skin folds between the body and the wing, and around her head where you've seen them before. Check her legs and feet for mites too.

Sometimes this takes two people, one to hold the bird and help hold folds of feathers back, the other to search closely. The vent area (from where her eggs exit the body and where she discharges waste) is probably the most important area to check because this seems to be where parasites seem to congregate on a chicken. Check that area CLOSELY.

We've used Diatomaceous Earth (DE) successfully to combat external parasites; others use chemicals like Permethrin Dust (MysteryChicken on this site).

We got permethrin dust and spray diluted for them since we have heard mixed reviews of DE her but was a bit dirty since she doesn’t like when we open her beak for meds and we took her in Sunday to lay her egg and she pooped but it rubbed her butt feathers I’ll check her.

 

[Swbertrand1]

Don't forget to make sure she eats and drinks. The fluids are as important as her feed since you live in Houston. I lived there once, and it's nothing short of hot and humid as hell - just miserable in the summer!

 

[Jose11632]

Don't forget to make sure she eats and drinks. The fluids are as important as her feed since you live in Houston. I lived there once, and it's nothing short of hot and humid as hell - just miserable in the summer!

Right now it’s cool 75 degrees no heavy breathing nor open beaks nor from my biggest hen but it’s humid.

 

[Jose11632]

Don't forget to make sure she eats and drinks. The fluids are as important as her feed since you live in Houston. I lived there once, and it's nothing short of hot and humid as hell - just miserable in the summer!

When they went to sleep she laid in her nesting boxes and I let her in case she wanted to lay saw this poop in the morning any ideas?