My 4 month old Agnes has not been growing as her other companions her age. She has no neck feathers or tail feathers. Over the course of the past week she just hasn't been her perky self, getting worse by the day. She hasn't been sneezing or coughing - just acts exhausted. But it has been extreeeemly hot here in Texas nearing 100+, so that's what we were thinking the cause could be. The girls have a coop with an enclosed run around it that they are out in during the day. I have a fan in the roof of the coop and one in the outside run. They are eating medicated chick starter and I have been adding to their water Electrolites and Duramycin.
Had 2 other girls pass away a few weeks ago. They just became weak and lethargic one day and by the next were gone.
Not sure if its related but I have a mixture of chick breeds the two were the same breed as what Agnes is. As soon as they passed we emptied out the coop, nesting boxes and disinfected and bleached everything just to be sure, if what ever they had wasn't contageous. But now I have another that has watery eyes and I did notice Agnes did yesterday.... HELP! My husband is threatening to start "putting them down" ! He seems to think it was due to a trauma that took place a few months ago when we didn't have the run enclosed and a cat had jumped in there. I came home to Agnes having her head stuck between the two layers of fencing we have on the bottom of their run.....we lost one of her mates and the run got enclosed!
The Vet's in our area do not see chickens - we are in a rual area of a Poultry Company and sick birds are not something anyone wants known. We only have Tractor Supply to get our meds and supplies from.
Please help Agnes!
Had 2 other girls pass away a few weeks ago. They just became weak and lethargic one day and by the next were gone.
Not sure if its related but I have a mixture of chick breeds the two were the same breed as what Agnes is. As soon as they passed we emptied out the coop, nesting boxes and disinfected and bleached everything just to be sure, if what ever they had wasn't contageous. But now I have another that has watery eyes and I did notice Agnes did yesterday.... HELP! My husband is threatening to start "putting them down" ! He seems to think it was due to a trauma that took place a few months ago when we didn't have the run enclosed and a cat had jumped in there. I came home to Agnes having her head stuck between the two layers of fencing we have on the bottom of their run.....we lost one of her mates and the run got enclosed!
The Vet's in our area do not see chickens - we are in a rual area of a Poultry Company and sick birds are not something anyone wants known. We only have Tractor Supply to get our meds and supplies from.
Please help Agnes!