please help!!!!!!

[chickendipper]

Hello
Can anyone help, lost 3 bantams in last 3 or for months!
Bought 3 pekins from one breeder about 4 or 5 months ago and over a couple of months two died 3rd one is fine.My wife bought two bantams about 2 months a go from somewere else one died 2 weeks ago and the other one is now ill!! They have all had same symptoms wobbly and un balanced, watery pooh, messsy bum, and seem to keep them selves seperate from the other birds.Tonight they had all gone into house as normal and she stayed in run on own sitting in corner!! What is wrong with the bantams!!

Thanks

 

[chickendipper]

PS not sure if this helps but have all been 20 weeks plus old,pol but none have ever layed!!

 

[Paddy_c20]

Is duck poo nor suppost to be runny? Shirley uf they drink slot water it will be

 

[chickendipper]

Duck poo :roll: There chickens 01 01

 

[VALBURNHAM]

Have you had any of the bantams to the vet. It sounds like they have an infection of some sort and you probably needs anti biotics.
Just a few things to check. Whatever is causing it is probably going to spread through your others so you need to find out what the problem is.
Have you checked there crops to make sure they are neither sour or impacted. If you are not sure where the hens crop is if you google a chicken anatomy it will show you. On a morning the crop should be empty and not hard and solid or squishy
Any chance you have red mite in your house. These are very difficult to see best to check on a night, once again lots of info on these on the internet.
Have you wormed them at all. They need to be wormed with flubenvet every 6 months or so as worms can cause havoc with hens.
If you can give more details Im sure someone can help you.

 

[daniellesdogs]

id do the normal checks
worms lice mites drafts
do you add any thing to their water/food like tonic spices viniger

 

[jubilee]

ACV at a doseage rate of 20mls per litre of water for bantams, and 25mls per litre of water for large fowl can firm up poo. But generally, the rule of thumb is, what you feed them. A good quality feed made with fresh quality ingredients leaves little to be waste product, and a cheap feed with lots of bulking agents can cause sloppy or loose waste. Garvo, in my experience is wonder-feed, it has almost irradicated loose droppings from all my birds, they poo less, and what they do poo is firm and the correct colour. Every so often chickens expell the contents of their liver, which is a foul smelling orange/yellow sticky poo, this is quite normal, see below.

And nothing to worry about, females tend to do this more than males.
But would agree that a vet visit would rule out any infections to be on the safe side. As you have already lost one, there might be an underlying problem which can be sorted with a course of antibiotics.

JubesXX