infection

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Black Australorp, 8 months, lost weight within the last week 2) What is the behavior, exactly. My Black Australorp, Greta, came down with an eye issue last week. She had no...

This is going to be a long one, but bear with me. I want to be sure to include every ounce of information that I can in order to figure out what the heck is going on!!!! Okay. So, I came across information about bumblefoot ages ago when trying to figure out what was wrong with one of our...

About 3 Days ago my dads small yorkie took a bite of feathers out of my buff Orpington’s fluffy butt. I thought it was just feathers... today I can tell it’s worse than I thought and it looks infected... like she got more than feathers. Since her feathers are missing, she can’t get on the roost...

Well I had a chicken, Aretha, that had bumblefoot that I just noticed today. It was a fairly large scab, so I operated. I had my mother hold her in a towel and keep her head covered while I worked on her foot. Aretha, for the most part, was very calm during surgery. While I'm sure it still hurt...

I noticed my favourite female pekin had a limp one day and discovered she had two Bumblefoot looking scabs on her foot with one that had swelling. I did a week and a half of epsom salt soaks and putting antiseptic then antibiotic and antifungal cream then wrapping. The scabs healed! But the...

So had a few chicks hatch in an incubator yesterday and day before. All are fine except one unzipped half way and stopped. 8 hours later it was the same so i quickly got it out and put it in a smaller incubator. I found it was glued in hard. Wrapped it in damp paper towel and it manged to get...

My flock has suffered from a respiratory disease. We have not tested to see which one it is yet. The last egg I got from them was August 6th. All my girls are under 2 years. I really noticed symptoms August 18th after we got some rain(we don’t get much rain where we are). Should I cull the...

Hi folks, We're relative newcomers to the fun and rewards of backyard chicken raising and have run into an issue we have not been able to identify online. Any insight or suggestions would be appreciated. Our chicken has an inflamed or perhaps infected wing that started out as minor inflammation...

Hi folks, We're relative newcomers to the fun and rewards of backyard chicken raising and have run into an issue we have not been able to identify online. Any insight would be appreciated. Our chicken has an inflamed or perhaps infected wing that started out as minor inflammation of the...

My first time posting for help!!! I have found so much information here, it's great!! So, when I opened the coop as usual today at 7am to let the birds out, they all were excited as normal to get out, Rooster first, followed by the pullets, and two bit older bantam pullets. EXCEPT for one...

Something got a hold of my Rooster 4 days ago. its left 3 deep puncture wounds and tore off a huge chunk of hide. I separated him immediately and cleaned the wound, but I had him in a crate out on the porch. The next night when I got home from work I went to clean it again that's when I noticed...

We noticed our buff was losing feathers. When we flipped her over, we saw that all the feathers on her abdomen were gone and she had a half inch abscess (see photo). Skin is read. She is not bloated and it does not appear that she has water belly. Could this be thrush?

How the heck does a closed flock get respiratory infection? I’m not exactly sure which specific infection it is. They sneeze a little bit during the day but at night is when you can really hear the gurgling when they breath. They do have nasal discharge but no other symptoms, they eat/drink/and...

I became too trusting of my environment after letting my chickens free range and never locking their run/coop door for a while. One weekend I was away, came home and found one half eaten in the coop and another dismantled around the back of the coop. My fault as I have a very safe setup and...

My girl had some poop in her rear so I picked her up to clean her and realized the vent looks prolapsed but it also looks like she has a scab/infection. 1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Easter egger about 5 years old and...

my hen got attacked by my dog this last tuesday. she has a tear in her skin on the stomach with most feathers missing from that area. only the skin was torn and no muscle was visibly damaged. i stitched the wound closed, applied neosporin and sent her back with the rest of her flock. i have been...

I have a 5 mo. old Leghorn that was a victim of an over zealous rooster that got rehomed yesterday. :hit I've been putting antibiotic ointment on it for a couple weeks. When I first noticed it there was just a couple little nicks in it but I'm of the pro-active type and wanted to head infection...

Hello guys! I'm not an expert in raising ducks. So please help me. My parents got two ducks as pets. Recently, one of my ducks (a few months old) had a sudden attack, she started fluttering her wings and fell down. She is not able to walk and hold her head since then. We took her inside home...

I have been reading the thread started by Vyctoria (Ducks) who suspected bumblefoot, but is now unsure due to the absence of a scab. I have a very similar problem with one of my hens, Solskjaer. Solskjaer is about 14 weeks old and is a heavy bird. For the last 3 days, she has been limping and...

My 2 yo welsummer hen Turbo is experiencing a very swollen eye, roof of her mouth, and nostril. Noticed last night, but no other issues (eating and drinking okay). This morning checked on her again. Her nostril, eye, and roof of mouth were even worse. Cleaned her up, drained the abscess of as...