QUESTIONS TO ASK - POORLY HENS

[barkingmad]

Just a bit of advise please..

I'v been googling about my hen Dora and I think I'v found out what might be bothering her.
Only problem is the cure involves bathing her in flowers of solphure which I can only get in powder form. So do I add to warm water like salts ????

Any advise please

Thank you in advance

[Bremner1972]

Hello

I'm new to down the lane but have registered because I knwo there's good advice available to amateurs like me. One of my chickens is not well. They are young Polands (8 weeks old max) and one of them is hardly eating (even mealworms which they love), is very listless, and more worringly has blood in coming out of her back end - I'm not sure if it's in her faeces or not.
We've given her olive oil in case it was a compacted crop, given her water and food and taken her away from the rest.

Can anyone advise please.

[Mo]

I doesn't sound as if it is something that can be easily sorted by non-experts at long distance.
I know a vet consultation will cost you more than you paid for the hen, but that would seem like the best option.

[manda]

Sounds like Coccidiosis the blood in the droppings would suggest this...

You will need Coxoid for all of your birds ...treat them all at he same time.....

If you're not confident then of course you should get the sick one to a vet but I feel this will be the diagnosis.

[Mo]

Did you sort it out?

[sandy]

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[wendy]

Thanks Sandy. 'tis done