lethargic

I am a new chicken owner. Past few days, the weather has been unpredictable. (80 degrees down to 45 degrees) I normally keep the chicks in the shed with a heat lamp but this time I left them in their coop. The heat lamp was on but the chicks did not go to that level of their coop. The next...

Hello, I ordered 4 golden layer ducks from mypetchicken. I received them yesterday morning, when I first set them out they were all active and drinking and eating. A couple hours passed and one became lethargic and soon passed away. That night the rest continued to be relatively active, two a...

My bantam has been crowing like he was starting to crow despite being 1 year old and having crowed well for the past months. Hes also a bit lethargic and he has mucus on the bottom of his mouth which smells bad and is closing his eyes a bit. i gave him a little bit of apple cider vinegar as a...

Sorry if this is a bit rushed - all of this is happening very quickly and I'm very worried. We just brought home 18 6-week old chickens yesterday, and this chicken is the only one displaying this behavior. - hasn't eaten; after we brought her inside, she made some effort at foraging and ate a...

Hi all, I have been a chicken keeper for 6 weeks now. I have 23 chicks that were just treated for cocidia. The treatment ended three days ago, and everything seemed fine. This morning I went into the basement to change their food and water, and noticed one of my chicks alone on one side of the...

Please help! This is for my bantam hen. 1) Weak, Sleeping. She is literally limp most of the time. If she manages to stand, she is shaky and cannot walk straight. 2) Her head is down and her feathers are fluffed out. Her eyes are closed. 3) Her comb is dark and shrunken. 4) Her vent is pale and...

Hi, I have a 18 month old frizzle hen. For the last 2-3 months she has been loosing lots of feathers. Has been excessively preening, Has lost most of the feathers from her back, her wings, tail and vent. The vent area is almost completely bald. And for last two, three weeks she seems very...

Recently I created a thread about Sunny (https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-mobility-problems-lethargic-need-help.1446727/) but I think creating another will garner more attention as she needs further help and I'm not sure what I can do for her at this point. She is a seventh month...

My little crossbeak Americana is 9 months old and yesterday we found her just about upside down in the run of the chicken coop. I had started to notice that day that she was feeling unwell and was getting my husband to help bring her inside and that is when we found her laying on the floor. She...

It’s been in the freezing temps the last few days and I checked on my coop this evening around 4 and my rooster was laying down on his side with his head down. I brought him inside and used warm towels to heat him up. His energy level has not improved. I dipped his beak in water that had added...

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Silkie, approx 5 years, was a rescue. Very tiny bird so feels the same but I’m unsure. Rescued from the same flock a couple years ago as the bird I posted about recently who passed. They...

I found one of my chicken lying on the ground. I can’t say exactly when she stopped laying but it seemed as if she was molting. She had lost all her tail feathers and her comb is pale. She is about 10 months I’ve noticed recently that she has been lethargic. When I took her out I could feel her...

One of my Silkies a few weeks ago started to show signs of lethargy and would have her head tight to her body like a ball. Then, she digressed and kept falling over to one side to the point where she now can’t sit up anymore. I thought she was egg bound so I tried to help her that way, but...

My Australorp chicken, Tweety, who is 2 1/2 years old Is eating normally, but does not forage with the other chickens and has to be encouraged to get up and walk around. She often finds a spot and lays down for much of the day with her head down. Her tail is always down and she does not interact...

Hi all, this is my first year with Turkeys and I have one broad-breasted white that started acting oddly last night. With it being winter I have been keeping them medium sized coop overnight and on pasture during the day. Last night one went and sat down under one of my shade structures and...

One of my chooks has recently stopped eating, has become more timid and lethargic and her feet seem to be having trouble walking/curling up when she sits down. I have brought food and water to her, but she doesn't eat or drink. I am unsure how old she is, as we adopted her from a friend. She was...

Hello Everyone and Happy New Year, I have a sick 7 year old hen. Suzie in the fall went through a full molt. After she came out of the molt she went broody for the first time which we ended up disrupting since the eggs were not fertile. She was separated from the rest of the flock until she...

Hello all, Newish chicken owner & first time poster. I’ve found so much help on this site just by reading the threads, but I’m at my wit’s end and am desperate. I have a 6 month old serama frizzle who laid her first eggs on Saturday. I know chickens don’t usually lay two eggs in a day, but I...

My 6 week old rooster yesterday had trouble breathing, because he was outside in the cold. I brought him in, gave him two drops of ventolin, then calpol. He looked better immediately. I repeated this at night, and now it is morning, he is lethargic, his poop is normal, but he is not eating much...

Hello all. Some of you may remember I posted Thursday about a 1 week old chick named Fern who was lethargic and seemingly dying. She is my first chick ever, so of course I panicked and began researching right away as well as posted on this forum and got some much needed help from this community...