- Sep 16, 2012
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Hi friends,
I have a black chick, she's about 14 weeks old. My daughter who is 6 usually feeds and waters the chicks & chickens (we have 61, I homeschool and I'm pregnant right now) SO, I didn't know that she wasn't really getting off the coop floor yesterday. So when I went in to check on things today she was down next to the water not looking so hot. I took her out of the coop and brought her down into the garage where our chicken jail is for broody or sick hens and I was trying to get her to drink some water. She's definitely not interested in eating or drinking. I did make her drink some to see if she could and she seems able to. She has no discharge from anywhere. She does have diarrhea which is either light green or yellowy, hard to say exactly, it made me gag it smelled so nasty. Anyway, her beak is dirty but I think she just hasn't felt like taking care of herself. The only other 'clue' I have is that her wing feathers look funny. I haven't clipped hers yet (I usually clip all my birds right wings) and the ends of her wings are sparse. It doesn't look like abuse though.
Does anyone have any ideas? No hot spots on her body that I can feel, no missing feather spots & no blood.
Thanks!
I have a black chick, she's about 14 weeks old. My daughter who is 6 usually feeds and waters the chicks & chickens (we have 61, I homeschool and I'm pregnant right now) SO, I didn't know that she wasn't really getting off the coop floor yesterday. So when I went in to check on things today she was down next to the water not looking so hot. I took her out of the coop and brought her down into the garage where our chicken jail is for broody or sick hens and I was trying to get her to drink some water. She's definitely not interested in eating or drinking. I did make her drink some to see if she could and she seems able to. She has no discharge from anywhere. She does have diarrhea which is either light green or yellowy, hard to say exactly, it made me gag it smelled so nasty. Anyway, her beak is dirty but I think she just hasn't felt like taking care of herself. The only other 'clue' I have is that her wing feathers look funny. I haven't clipped hers yet (I usually clip all my birds right wings) and the ends of her wings are sparse. It doesn't look like abuse though.
Does anyone have any ideas? No hot spots on her body that I can feel, no missing feather spots & no blood.
Thanks!