Blue is my chicken
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- Oct 13, 2023
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I made a post about this already but i wanted to get all the information in one place
original post https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hen-has-mites.1641718/
Dandelion is a brahma hen and she turned 1 this year
On the 20th I noticed that one of my hens, dandelion, was just sitting by herself sleeping a lot, so I picked her up to check her and realised she was really skinny i took her back to my house and offered her some food and she ate really well, whilst she was eating i checked her over and found around her vent lots of mites
We are treating her for the mites with ivermectin as a spot on she has had 2 treatments 1 week apart and i am planning on doing a 3 treatment to make sure the mites are really gone (i have stopped seeing the mites i am just being careful), i am also spraying her vent area and under her wings with johnson's veterinary anti mite spray (i have also sprayed the coop with this stuff) (link: https://johnsons-vet.com/shop/m044-anti-mite-extra-pack-of-6/ )
I set her up in our (car free) carport in a dog crate with a heat lamp
She has ablib growers pellets (she is normaly on layers pellets but i wanted to give her somthing with more protein) and mealworms
Her whole flock was treated with the same stuff on the 21st
I had been worried about her as i had not had to top up her food once
On the 27th I went out to check on her and i picked her up to get a good look of her, their were no mites visible, but she seemed even skinner than when i had brought her in which concerned me
She is uninterested in food
On the 28th another hen, caremel, seemed ill so i brought her in too be with dandelion, i thought that she might like some company but today i noticed caremel was being mean so i put her back out with the others (she was fine just not liking the weather)
Dandelion also has mucky butt feathers
On the 29th, today, i went out to check on her and she is really tired and if I gentle push on her, like enough to make her move but a healthy hen would just side step, she falls over
She is really tired
Her crop is almost always empty (and by almost i mean just the grit left in there)
I have tried feeding her cat food but she seemed uninterested, i also scrambled her an egg and she didnt want it, so i forced her to eat it by putting it in her beck along with my finger to stop her spitting it out and she ate some of it that way
I have started hand feeding her, wet growers pellets (the same way i fed the egg), i am getting a liquid like poultry nutri drench to feed her but it will not arrive till tomorow
She is really weak and just sits under the heat lamp all the time
She is literaly skin and bones
I do have access to a bird vet if needed
Thank you
original post https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hen-has-mites.1641718/
Dandelion is a brahma hen and she turned 1 this year
On the 20th I noticed that one of my hens, dandelion, was just sitting by herself sleeping a lot, so I picked her up to check her and realised she was really skinny i took her back to my house and offered her some food and she ate really well, whilst she was eating i checked her over and found around her vent lots of mites
We are treating her for the mites with ivermectin as a spot on she has had 2 treatments 1 week apart and i am planning on doing a 3 treatment to make sure the mites are really gone (i have stopped seeing the mites i am just being careful), i am also spraying her vent area and under her wings with johnson's veterinary anti mite spray (i have also sprayed the coop with this stuff) (link: https://johnsons-vet.com/shop/m044-anti-mite-extra-pack-of-6/ )
I set her up in our (car free) carport in a dog crate with a heat lamp
She has ablib growers pellets (she is normaly on layers pellets but i wanted to give her somthing with more protein) and mealworms
Her whole flock was treated with the same stuff on the 21st
I had been worried about her as i had not had to top up her food once
On the 27th I went out to check on her and i picked her up to get a good look of her, their were no mites visible, but she seemed even skinner than when i had brought her in which concerned me
She is uninterested in food
On the 28th another hen, caremel, seemed ill so i brought her in too be with dandelion, i thought that she might like some company but today i noticed caremel was being mean so i put her back out with the others (she was fine just not liking the weather)
Dandelion also has mucky butt feathers
On the 29th, today, i went out to check on her and she is really tired and if I gentle push on her, like enough to make her move but a healthy hen would just side step, she falls over
She is really tired
Her crop is almost always empty (and by almost i mean just the grit left in there)
I have tried feeding her cat food but she seemed uninterested, i also scrambled her an egg and she didnt want it, so i forced her to eat it by putting it in her beck along with my finger to stop her spitting it out and she ate some of it that way
I have started hand feeding her, wet growers pellets (the same way i fed the egg), i am getting a liquid like poultry nutri drench to feed her but it will not arrive till tomorow
She is really weak and just sits under the heat lamp all the time
She is literaly skin and bones
I do have access to a bird vet if needed
Thank you
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