I noticed one girl sitting alone, feathers puffed up. What really got me was how pale her eyelids were. On the second day I pulled her out and isolated her.
I believe it's a respiratory infection. She's got pale eyes, a bit of poo around the vent (whitish', and a lethargic, puffed up stance...
I'm pretty sure some of my girls have worms. I thought it was just due to getting old, but the abrupt stopping in egg production in my smaller coop, as well as how skinny and somewhat lethargic a few seem, points to worms.
Even if it isn't worms, I'm still like to de-worm as a preventative...
I have a 2-3 year old hen, red sex link, nothing special.
I nticed ehr bedded down in the coop last night and checked under her for eggs, and when I found nothing, I just assumed she was keeping her feet warm.
This morning, she wouln't leave the coop. She can barely stand on her own. I...
Alright- yesterday I went out to find one of my birds acting strangely. She's a 2 year old red sex link- I noticed a lot of diarrhea/poo on her vent area, and that she was hunched, droopy, and walking low/ waddling.
I picked ehr up and found ehr crop was very bloated- I figured she had sour...
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So I have a hen who was droopy these past they days- droopy comb, not much energy, ect. I had a hen who was laying internally that presented the same way, so I figured it was best to just let her go.
I planned on butchering her this evening to put her out of her...
We had a bad lice epidemic this winter, so when my girls started getting patchy (patches of lost feathers) and dropping in egg production), I began to think it was lice. They've been dusted, coop cleaned, but still only a few eggs a day, and I'm beginning to think there's another culprit here...
So all my hens have stopped laying. I had a flock of 14, but one of them died suddenly. I was draining an ascetics fluid from her, and I believe the stress of being on he back while I held her was too much, as she died about ten minutes later in my arms, gasping and struggling to breathe, comb...