sick chicken

It’s been 95* in San Diego for the last week. I found my 3yr old rhode island red wobbling and eventually dropping to the floor by the water. I brought her in the house and fed her food and water with electrolytes. After a few hours, she stood up and did the penguin stance. She was either...

Background: it will be day 7 of me noticing the fluffed feather area tomorrow (Thursday). At first I thought it was respiratory issues as all of my chickens have sneezing and some sound raspy. They all got the sneeze one after the other. But never had any snotty noses or lethargy. I started them...

I have a group of Belgian Liege fighter chicks about 5 weeks old. Yesterday, suddenly, two of them looked like they had scabby cheeks and seemed a bit tired and hunched. I also noticed the skin beneath their beaks was a little swollen and felt warm to the touch. The next day, one of them was...

This is JJ. I found her tonight knocked off of her perch and laying with her neck in her back. Her butt was a little bit pasty so I cleaned it best I could, acting normal (eating, drinking, peeping) besides being lethargic. I cleaned her butt and put her back in the coop. Shes been acting like...

On Saturday morning, one of our silkies was extremely lethargic. She wad off the roost pole earlier than usual, was laying on the ground and had her head and wings down. We spoon fed her water and we were able to get her to eat some of her regular food and some banana. She seemed more alert as...

My 5 month old hen, Margo, suddenly became very ill. She was her normal, energetic, happy self just a few hours ago but I found her laying in the ferns on top of her her own diarrhea. She had her head down with her eyes closed and woke up but didn’t fight me picking her up which was very...

This chicken open-mouthed silent breathing and has less pep in her step than the others. Last night we had a raccoon outside the coop. He didn't get in, but they're all stressed about it since we had a bad raccoon attack about a month ago. This morning, my husband said one chicken was...

I have a laying hen (about 2 years old) that’s sick. She has been sleeping in the nesting box lately which is unusual for her and now was spending the afternoon in there. I took her out and brought her inside and she pooped watery diarrhea that shot out of her about 2 feet. It was lots of clear...

Help! I have a sneezing, nasal dishcharge from nostril, and gasping for air periodically 10 week old chick. My whole flock got sneezing symptoms but it improved in them after 2 days of vetrx. I don’t know where I can get testing done to see what the sickly bird has, we don’t have avian vets and...

TLDR:What side effects do pain meds have on chickens? I don’t want to cause more harm but I don’t want her to be in pain. Hi everyone, my 3 year old Plymouth blue rock has a mass or tumor in her lower belly and the vet says it’s probably getting close to time to put her down. She stopped laying...

Hi I’ve had chickens for a few years now, started with 4. One died at one year old due to sudden death syndrome. One died around 7 months ago due to being egg bound. Now, pebble, is sick. She hasn’t layed for around a year and the vet says she has some sort of mass or tumor and will likely need...

Hi! I’m hoping I can get some advice as what to do for my hen. She has been lethargic and puffed up. She isn’t drinking water but she is grazing in the yard and eating some of her food just not as much as usual. Her poop is runny but not bloody and I can’t see any worms or anything noticeably...

I have a 11 month old RIR that has been lethargic today. Comb and waddles seem pale and cooler temp than usual, tail is droopy. We've brought her inside to help keep her warm, calm, and away from the flock. She is panting, but seems more to be when she is warm and not because she is struggling...

Bathed my chicken she had poop butt and i pulled this out of my chickens butt. she is acting lethargic but what is it? I can only think that it was a fairy egg that popped inside her?

I have an almost 3 years old Blue Sapphire chicken that has a hard bottom, not running, is always tired and not eating much. Other than her comb started to shrivel a little, she looks healthy. Her recent poop is small, green and white, which is not the most healthy poop, but she still poops (not...

I have an underweight co hin bantam that I had separated from most of my flock a few weeks ago so she could gain back some of her weight. Apart from being skinny, she seemed fine until today. She had a few seizures in a row for some unknown reason. She was a little off balance after they ended...

My chicken has a pale comb and wattle. She is not eating and I am really worried, another chicken in my flock died with the same symptoms a few weeks ago. She is about 2 years old, she is a golden comet. I did notice that maybe he had loose stool, like more watery than usual. But not sure. She...

Hopefully this is the right place to plop this information! I've noticed a lot of fellow chicken tenders on here having trouble with obtaining medications like antibiotics, Corid, permethrine, etc. to treat their chickens (especially those rural folks who, like me, don't have access to an...

Hey everyone! So I purchased a 5 month old pullet (not laying yet) from a trusted and well known breeder in my area. She is a BC1 Olive Egger (BCM x Silverrudds blue). When I first brought her home this past July I didn’t notice anything off about her but about a month and half or so later I...

Hi, this morning I noticed 1 of my chicken’s wasn’t acting right. She was sitting a lot and not moving very much, she’s not really drinking anything and her crop is full. I isolated her this afternoon with water and no food for a few hours and her crop was still full. Is she sick? What’s wrong...