Poorly Chicken?

[Anonymous]

I have four Black Rocks in the garden, three of them are fine and well, but the fourth seems to has something wrong. She sits in the nesting box a lot and she is passing brown sloppy stools. The others seem to ignore her and are laying etc fine. Any clues people, its been five days now???

 

[Sue]

Is she broody? I've got 2 who spend all day in the nest box until I turf them out! Could the sloppy stools be because she's not eating very much? Have you tried apple cider vinegar in the water? That sorted out the runny poos in my hens.

 

[bantiekeeper]

Agree with Sue, could be broody. Lift her off the nest, if she kicks up a fuss then she probably is. Keep her out of the nestbox at least long enough for her to eat and poo etc. I recently had 3 of my 6 dotte bantams broody, one of them for 40 days! In the end I put them in solitary in a broody cage one at a time and they all snapped out of it within a week. It is hard to know what action to take because by letting them ride it out they still get stressed. Of course if you have the set up you could always put some fertilised eggs under her.