Not sure what's wrong with my pekin Flossie - she has been quite solitary and dejected for the past 3 or 4 days, going off on her own, lagging behind the others and taking herself off to bed during the day, sitting fluffed up and a bit hunched. There is definitely something not right. Have checked for lice and mites and there don't seem to be any. Yesterday, although she seemed to be foraging ok when she was out, her crop was almost empty in the evening so fed her some corn which she took ok. She is still eating corn at least and looks ok - no runny eyes or discharge. She has been a little pale but looks better today. She seems very warm underneath but they all do (am I feeding the too much corn?) Tried to get some Nutri-drops in her today without success - she clearly doesn't like the taste - wouldn't even eat corn with it on. To work out the dose I had to weigh her - just over 600g which seems quite light. She is now the smallest of the gang.
I've only had my 3 pekin hens and cockerel about 7 weeks so am very new to all this and a bit of a nervous mother. Soon after I got them they were all sneezing like mad so they were on Tylan for a week. I also wormed them as one of them seemed to have bloody mucous in their poo. Since then they have been fine as far as I am aware, although still sneezing very occasionally and another one has an intermittent cough. Egg production has gone down this week and Flossie hasn't laid for several days, although could be the darker weather? Her poo looks normal, although the day before yesterday there was some with hard, whitish round things in (not sure whose) which I thought may be seeds as they are roaming in the garden all day. Could they be worm eggs - seems a bit soon to worm them again. Any advice very gratefully received.
I've only had my 3 pekin hens and cockerel about 7 weeks so am very new to all this and a bit of a nervous mother. Soon after I got them they were all sneezing like mad so they were on Tylan for a week. I also wormed them as one of them seemed to have bloody mucous in their poo. Since then they have been fine as far as I am aware, although still sneezing very occasionally and another one has an intermittent cough. Egg production has gone down this week and Flossie hasn't laid for several days, although could be the darker weather? Her poo looks normal, although the day before yesterday there was some with hard, whitish round things in (not sure whose) which I thought may be seeds as they are roaming in the garden all day. Could they be worm eggs - seems a bit soon to worm them again. Any advice very gratefully received.