Tervuren
Songster
My Bielefelder hen Nettie has been acting very strangely over the last week and has lost over a pound of weight since about August.
She acts like something is chasing her and runs around the run squawking, and then will cower behind the waterer before starting up again. The trigger appears to be my EE Ada, who was a massive bully this summer, but that was fixed with pinless peepers and as far as I can tell she hasn’t started up again and isn’t doing anything that causes Nettie to act terrified.
Nettie was acting so wild this morning I was afraid she’d break her neck running into something so she came inside to chill in a dog kennel. She immediately relaxed and drank lots of water.
I came home at lunch and let Nettie loose in the yard. Totally normal chicken behavior until I let the other two girls out. Nettie legit started trying to break in through my back door. Chill as a cucumber when I let her in. I ushered her back out and freak out! I shooed Ada one way and Nettie and Amelia another, and everything was copacetic.
I looked over Nettie after eating lunch. She’s in the middle of molting and everything looks good there. Healthy looking vent. Feet look good. She had a yellow scab on her chest, but healthy skin underneath when I removed it. She weighs 4lbs 11oz, which is down from just over 6 lbs this summer. I’m going to check the scale with a known weight tonight, but I doubt it’s off that much.
Has anyone seen behavior like this before? Not sure if the weight loss is related or not..
She acts like something is chasing her and runs around the run squawking, and then will cower behind the waterer before starting up again. The trigger appears to be my EE Ada, who was a massive bully this summer, but that was fixed with pinless peepers and as far as I can tell she hasn’t started up again and isn’t doing anything that causes Nettie to act terrified.
Nettie was acting so wild this morning I was afraid she’d break her neck running into something so she came inside to chill in a dog kennel. She immediately relaxed and drank lots of water.
I came home at lunch and let Nettie loose in the yard. Totally normal chicken behavior until I let the other two girls out. Nettie legit started trying to break in through my back door. Chill as a cucumber when I let her in. I ushered her back out and freak out! I shooed Ada one way and Nettie and Amelia another, and everything was copacetic.
I looked over Nettie after eating lunch. She’s in the middle of molting and everything looks good there. Healthy looking vent. Feet look good. She had a yellow scab on her chest, but healthy skin underneath when I removed it. She weighs 4lbs 11oz, which is down from just over 6 lbs this summer. I’m going to check the scale with a known weight tonight, but I doubt it’s off that much.
Has anyone seen behavior like this before? Not sure if the weight loss is related or not..