1) What type of bird, age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.)
Golden Laced Bearded Polish Rooster, 17 weeks, thin enough that his breast bone is sticking out under his feathers.
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
He’s Lethargic, tail down, and liquid diarrhea. Hiding under coop away from hens. (He is three weeks younger than them and one of them does tend to chase him so he could be hiding out from her. Lol)
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms?
2 Days.
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms?
I had two cream leg bar hens that I got from the same woman. One died soon after I got her from what I assume was egg peritonitis. A little over a month later the other hen I got from her started exhibiting a penguin walk and her right toe started curling. So I started her on vitamin B orally, but she died the day after. That has been three weeks ago. Now my rooster who I got from the same woman is acting sick.
But my three hens I got from a hatchery six weeks before I got the cream leg bars and my rooster are perfectly fine and very healthy.
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
I can’t see any of the above!
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
Like I said above, I got him from a lady in my town who breeds chickens. Looking back on it now she may not have been a reputable person to get chickens from. The two hens I got with him have both passed.
Before I got him and the two hens, I already had three hens from a hatchery. They are perfectly healthy and have not exhibited any of the symptoms that my prior sick chickens have. In a matter of a month I’ve gone from six chickens to four.
I clean their coop two times a week.
They have their run that is attached to their coop and a tunnel that leads to an 8 x 8 aviary pen so they get grass and exercise!
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
They get Kalmbach layer crumble and the occasional tomatoes from the garden or peppers every once in a while. He seems to be interested in food and eating, but in two days he’s lost a good bit of weight.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
very runny. Almost like water. And when he does poop, it is long and stringy.
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
when I typed in his symptoms, it came up coccidiosis and the recommended treatment was Corrid in their water. So today I cleaned out their water bucket put freshwater in there and added 6 1/2 teaspoons in a 5 gallon bucket of water.
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet?
I would love to be able to treat it completely myself. But since I’ve already had two pass on me, I will take him to the vet if I need.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use
The coop has multipurpose sand that is large enough to not cause impactions. The coupe run and the attached 8 x 8 aviary run are all grass. There is a part of the run that goes under the coop. It has about 8 inches of clearance.
Please help me save my rooster. He is a really sweet guy!
I’ve attached poop pics! His is the liquid diarrhea!
Could he be depressed? The two that died were his girls. He hung around, slept, and had just started to feed them when they died.
Golden Laced Bearded Polish Rooster, 17 weeks, thin enough that his breast bone is sticking out under his feathers.
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
He’s Lethargic, tail down, and liquid diarrhea. Hiding under coop away from hens. (He is three weeks younger than them and one of them does tend to chase him so he could be hiding out from her. Lol)
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms?
2 Days.
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms?
I had two cream leg bar hens that I got from the same woman. One died soon after I got her from what I assume was egg peritonitis. A little over a month later the other hen I got from her started exhibiting a penguin walk and her right toe started curling. So I started her on vitamin B orally, but she died the day after. That has been three weeks ago. Now my rooster who I got from the same woman is acting sick.
But my three hens I got from a hatchery six weeks before I got the cream leg bars and my rooster are perfectly fine and very healthy.
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
I can’t see any of the above!
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
Like I said above, I got him from a lady in my town who breeds chickens. Looking back on it now she may not have been a reputable person to get chickens from. The two hens I got with him have both passed.
Before I got him and the two hens, I already had three hens from a hatchery. They are perfectly healthy and have not exhibited any of the symptoms that my prior sick chickens have. In a matter of a month I’ve gone from six chickens to four.
I clean their coop two times a week.
They have their run that is attached to their coop and a tunnel that leads to an 8 x 8 aviary pen so they get grass and exercise!
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
They get Kalmbach layer crumble and the occasional tomatoes from the garden or peppers every once in a while. He seems to be interested in food and eating, but in two days he’s lost a good bit of weight.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
very runny. Almost like water. And when he does poop, it is long and stringy.
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
when I typed in his symptoms, it came up coccidiosis and the recommended treatment was Corrid in their water. So today I cleaned out their water bucket put freshwater in there and added 6 1/2 teaspoons in a 5 gallon bucket of water.
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet?
I would love to be able to treat it completely myself. But since I’ve already had two pass on me, I will take him to the vet if I need.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use
The coop has multipurpose sand that is large enough to not cause impactions. The coupe run and the attached 8 x 8 aviary run are all grass. There is a part of the run that goes under the coop. It has about 8 inches of clearance.
Please help me save my rooster. He is a really sweet guy!
I’ve attached poop pics! His is the liquid diarrhea!
Could he be depressed? The two that died were his girls. He hung around, slept, and had just started to feed them when they died.
