Slicker chicker
Chirping
- Sep 20, 2023
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I have a hen That’s almost a year old. She is a little labored in her breathing and makes a sound with each breath. She keeps wanting to close her eyes like she’s just absolutely exhausted. She isn’t hanging around with the others much and she usually hangs around my dark Brahma. She is eating some food and I’m assuming she’s drinking I haven’t seen her but I’m gonna guess she is. she is definitely not as heavy as my other Brahma but being that she doesn’t usually let me pick her up. I can’t tell if maybe this is her normal? Cuz she’s usually very skittish, but she’s allowing me to pick her up and I’ve given her some poultry cell, as I am out of Nutri drench at the moment… I have had a horrible run of mareks in my coop or suspected mareks, I guess I should say. Any ideas? I am so frustrated with these losses!!! You can hear the clicking when she breathes. Could it be mareks? Worms? Vitamin deficiency? Coccidia? I’m sorry I’m on here all the time asking questions but the vet I took my rooster too knows a little but we don’t have an avian vet around here and I don’t personally know any people that know stuff.. I am so attached to my girls that each death hits me really really hard. I did buy some Purdue recover plus that I was adding to their water for about the last week because I had some dirty vents and some pretty poopy eggs and that seem to clear everything up and I doubt it’s from that but is it possible? Other than that I have mostly been feeding new Trina nature wise layer feed 16% and they get black soldier fly larva and a little bit of crack corn most days but not every day I keep their coop fairly clean and I use pine bedding. I change their waters every day, I am just at a loss I don’t know what to do