alisoncrary
In the Brooder
- May 15, 2024
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Three days ago we were driving through a rural neighborhood and found a chicken sitting in the creek. She seemed very stressed but let us pick her up; she was missing most of her tailfeathers but otherwise looked healthy, so our theory is that a predator went after her and she escaped, minus those feathers.
We brought her home and put her in a large cage in our chicken yard so that she could interact with them through the hardware mesh of the cage but stay separate for about a week. She did have a poopy butt, so we soaked her in epsom salt and cleaned her up, and it seems to be normal since then.
This morning I found one of my girls dead This girl was about 4 years old, but has had a history of a chronic bumble foot that we could never eliminate even with debridement over the years (she came to us with it when we adopted her). We are wondering if she was just immune-compromised due to the chronic bumble issue and couldn't fight off a possible new virus or something? She did have a poopy butt when she died but I did not notice it previously so I think it may have come on pretty quickly.
I've separated the rest of my flock from the new chicken's cage for now- from observation it looks like two of those six have slight poopy butts. These girls don't love to be handled unfortunately so I'll have help later this afternoon to get them cleaned up. Anything else that I should look for or do? Thank you in advance for any ideas- we love our girls and don't want to lose any more..
We brought her home and put her in a large cage in our chicken yard so that she could interact with them through the hardware mesh of the cage but stay separate for about a week. She did have a poopy butt, so we soaked her in epsom salt and cleaned her up, and it seems to be normal since then.
This morning I found one of my girls dead This girl was about 4 years old, but has had a history of a chronic bumble foot that we could never eliminate even with debridement over the years (she came to us with it when we adopted her). We are wondering if she was just immune-compromised due to the chronic bumble issue and couldn't fight off a possible new virus or something? She did have a poopy butt when she died but I did not notice it previously so I think it may have come on pretty quickly.
I've separated the rest of my flock from the new chicken's cage for now- from observation it looks like two of those six have slight poopy butts. These girls don't love to be handled unfortunately so I'll have help later this afternoon to get them cleaned up. Anything else that I should look for or do? Thank you in advance for any ideas- we love our girls and don't want to lose any more..