I found my hen isolated from the rest of the group today confused, she had shown no signs untill today. she was acting normal but then it was like a crash or something. When i picked her up she was extremely light and seems she has not been eating, she has been drinking though. I have attached...
One of my hens, Winnie, hasn't been acting herself lately. Backstory, she is two years old Sapphire Gem who is an egg-laying machine and has never molted (her feathers look awful). All of my other hens molted in October and stopped laying all winter, except for Winnie. She has never stopped...
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I need your experience. I have a 2 year old hen who has been lethargic and stopped laying about a week ago. She doesn’t have a runny nose, watery eyes, nor is she sneezing. Breathing just fine. No runny poop, as a matter of fact, barely poops because she’s not eating much. She does tend...
I have a flock of 7 birds. 2 Amberlink 3 Plymouth Rock 2 Blue Laced Wyandotte. One of my Wyandotte has recently started acting strange. Well, let me preface that by saying she has traditionally been the strangest of the bunch. She often gets broody, doesn't like to come near when we feed her...
My Isa brown (Cinnabun) seemed pretty off when I went outside, lethargic, labored breathin, tough bell, reluctant to walk, puffed up feathers, she does have mites pretty bad but I have treated her for them alread. She has a clicking sound when she breathes in on her left side. I gave her an...
Hi there! My precious Rhode Island Red hen Oakley seems to have a bloated/swollen abdomen and I have no clue what to do about it. She has a rather intense medical history... over a year ago Oakley was attacked by a wild animal and her esophagus was ripped open. She underwent a surgery and...
Hi this is sally my chicken she is about 2 years old Isa brown she has been looking sick lately and I think she needs a cure she drinks fine but can only eat soft food with some difficulty she is not as energetic as my other chickens and looks like she is always cold she also has red feet
I have a two year old hen.. about 10 days ago she stopped eating on her own and has had constant diarrhea... I have tried VetrX and feed her with a dropper a few times a day electrolytes and probiotics and try to give her soft food but she barely takes anything. She has no other major symptoms...
I noticed yesterday she was acting odd. Still eating, drinking a bit more than usual. Today I looked at her bum, because she's been acting broody and is also molting, and seen her butt/vent looked as it did. I sprayed some Medicine on her bum and vent area. She's just chilling in her spot right...
Hi there. Needing your precious help.
i have a 1 1/2 year old Ameraucana Splash.
she was brought home with her sister three weeks ago, she was Laying before getting here but hasn’t laid since. Although I take her out, she doesn’t seem like the other hens are picking on her, even though she’s...
(Pictures provided below.) One of my 7 laying hens has been extremely lethargic and listless for the past couple of days. I first noticed it when I let them out the other day to roam while supervised (I have a large caged in run I keep them in, adequate feed and water). After they all ran out...
Need advice regarding treatment for my two-year-old Polish bantam hen who is sick. We first noticed symptoms a week ago. We found her in her outdoor run on Sunday very lethargic but standing up. We assumed it was heat related and spent the night cooling her off. She perked up a little and ate...
1) Bird Age and Weight
The lethargic hen is an Ameraucana hen that's 2 years 4 months old (born in January 2018). She's lighter than our other two hens (a Rhode Island Red and a Plymouth Rock), but she's always been that way-- there's been no noticeable weight loss recently.
2) Behavior /...
Hey guys! I'm new to the Backyard Chickens site, and fairly new to chicken keeping - i've been doing it for 2 years now. Today while cleaning my flock's coop, I noticed that one of my chickens (a 2 year old hen) was not being herself - lethargic, hunched over, not eating and barely moving. I...
My australorp hen (Poppy) has a swollen abdomen and it acting rather lethargic. She doesn't appear to be having any trouble breathing but her poo matches the chicken that had ovarian cancer that had spread to other organs from this...
Hello all, I don’t post much but I am at such a loss right now. My dear Chiquita is a 2.5 year old ISA Brown hen who has been such a sweetheart her whole life. Two nights ago she suddenly lost the ability to move her left leg and has not been able to walk properly. I had her checked out by a vet...
Hi all. So I have 6 backyard chickens, that's the whole flock. I have one Buff Orpington (Buffy) who used to be near the top of the pecking order and now she is being mercilessly bullied by the other 5. We noticed a change in her behavior two weeks ago and then saw her being pecked in the...
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Ive been on here a number of times reading up on how to treat my flock and everyone seems to be very knowledgeable. SO here my problem...i had a sick chicken that sadly passed away 5 months ago. i thought she was egg bound as she had all the symptoms, but i could never feel an egg...
In the last few weeks my 2 year old Buff Orpington hen has had a droopy, purplish comb. She's been eating well and getting around find, so I haven't worried about it.
But the last 3-4 days she's not going into the coop at night (she has to jump up) so we've been picking her up and putting her...