older chicken

  1. SaltLakeChickenMama

    Sick, Lethargic, lays soft egg and then acting fine- repeat?

    I can’t seem to figure out what is going on with my girl. She is 3 years old, has access to oyster shells looks and acts perfectly fine, until she’s getting ready to lay an egg. Then she seems sick and lethargic with no appetite for a day until she lays a soft shelled egg. Then she seems ok...
  2. ryansmom06

    7 year old hen

    I have a 7 yr old hen. The last of her flock. I don’t want her to be alone. But should I put her in with existing flock with rooster? Would that be too much for her being old? She’s never been around a rooster does this matter? Help I don’t want her to be alone.
  3. Amy Weaver

    When to know to discontinue treatment?

    I think most of us have been there. We have a chicken that's sick and you've tried everything, so how do you know when to stop treatment and just leave them be? I have a Welsummer hen that's close to 5 years old who started mouth breathing and sneezing about a month ago, plus not eating or...
  4. H

    Is Morning Bird calcium plus liquid supplement safe for chickens?

    Hi all! I have two 5-year-old hens who refuse to eat oyster shells no matter how hard I try. This summer, they’ve started laying eggs with really thin shells and even laid a soft-shelled egg once. I’ve been adding HydroHen and some electrolyte packets to their water a few times a week which has...
    • HannahL
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    • calcium calcium defeciency hens molting molting and diet older chicken soft shell egg thin shelled eggs
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    • Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
  5. R

    Chicken might have eaten nexcare waterproof tape

    she's being treated for bumblefoot and there might have been some tape on the ground that I hadn't cleaned up yet and she ate, it's also possible that it was some wet bedding from her water that she had recently knocked over, I'm not sure. She hasn't been let out to roam for three days and...
  6. The chicken nurd

    Need some advice on an older chicken

    This morning I noticed my oldest hen Brownie who is 10 years old has a cataract in one eye and maybe something forming in her other eye otherwise she seems happy and healthy and neither eye seems infected but she is definitely not keeping up with the younger birds in my flock the way she used to...
  7. AChickenBoi

    Food and water spills from chicken’s beak when she bends down to peck at the ground.

    My 3-4 year old hen, Rocky, has been having these issues for a long while. I thought it was a symptom of sour crop, so when I isolated her to reset her digestive system, she became more lively and a completely normal chicken. However, water, bits of food, and other stuff still spills from her...
  8. spunky-chicken

    Older girl becoming lethargic, panting at odd times, and mustard yellow diarrhea.

    Hi, my beautiful Americana has been acting weird the last two days. She is lethargic and constantly breathing heavily. She's having mustard yellow diarrhea quite frequently and mostly just standing around. She's maybe 4-5 years old and this is a really sudden change so I don't think it has to do...
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