Recent content by Lindenksh

Yes, thank you for that suggestion! We did start her on it, in addition to the amoxicillin. I truly do not feel an egg in her as best as I can tell (and she has lost a lot of weight so there isn't much of her to feel). She fell down the ramp out of the henhouse this morning since her mobility is...

Thank you. I started her on amoxicillin today. She is still eating and drinking, but her posture is definitely worse. She did not make it up the ramp this evening to roost. I suppose if there is no improvement, then euthanizing her is the way to go? She spent the majority of the day standing...

I actually dewormed them just in the last 2 weeks, using Verm-X. Happy for a recommendation if there is something different I should use! She was looking better the last couple days, but this morning was the worst I've seen her (walking basically completely upright and the last one to slowly...

Thanks for this! I didn't see any signs of mites or lice but I will definitely check again. She is still hunched, but eating, drinking, and moving better these last couple days. I will grab some Calcium Citrate and give that a try!

Hi all - one of my leghorn chickens is definitely unwell. Noticed over the past couple days she has been slow to exit the henhouse. She is less active, is in a hunker down stance (neck tucked in, tail down). Her already floppy comb is much floppier, and has some white dustiness on it. Her stool...

Only 8 now (used to have 10 obviously). Hopefully will get a couple more in the Spring and bring the flock back up to the 10 mark. If we go the tractor route, we're trying to figure out how to get the chickens into it (tunnel, manually?). But a higher smaller outdoor run is also an option...

Possibly! I can certainly research higher electric fences (like something more permanent). We got this netting type as we thought we may move it around more to encourage regrowth of grass and such, but we haven't done much of that so maybe a more permanent/higher fence is the next move.

Looking for help seeing what else (if anything) I can do predator proof an outdoor (no ceiling/roof) run created by a heavy-duty electric fence. Over last 6 weeks a predator has killed two of my chickens within the electric fence run (one when the fence wasn't on, my mistake) but the second...

Thank you both so much! We will keep trying and see what progress we can make.

Here are a few more pictures. Tried the warm compress and polysporin again tonight - she didn't stay still enough for me to remove anything unfortunately.

Just the one eye is swollen, the other looks perfectly fine as far as I can tell. I did wonder if it was pus because it does seem to move around a bit. I will check out the resources on how to remove pus - wish me luck!

Thank you! I started with the polysporin today with your suggestion. Here are a couple photos - apologies as the one with her eye open aren't great since she was moving around a lot. Her eyeball though is fairly cloudy, and there is a white spot which someone suggested may be damaged tissue (?)...

When purchasing a couple 20 week old pullets to add to my backyard flock a couple days ago, I was offered another with an eye injury. She's a commercial, 20 weeks old, and weighing the same as the others. Her eye is swollen, she keeps it shut majority of the time, and when it's open it looks...