C'mon chicken experts! What's wrong with my flock??

[i_am2bz]

LOL just crackin' your egg 2bz

Yeah, you're good at that, FC...

 

[MsPony]

I can check around for you, I know someone in the High Point area and she went to a cow specialist.

As for the medicine, either way. I stick 'em between my thighs (if I can sit a bucker, I can sit a chicken!) Grab the top of the neck w/ one hand, pry their beak open with a finger then squirt! Right down the hatch I don't tip their head too far for fear of inhaling it.

Also my girl is getting, uh, I know ones on medicam...baytril! That's the polishes meds.

 

[FarmerChick]

Ahhh shucks, or is it plucks

 

[i_am2bz]

Okay, now I'm even more worried. Another of my hens is acting strange, kind of lethargic...I mean, she's just standing there, staring. I went to give them their afternoon treats, put some right in front of her, & she just ignored it. The other two pecked & scratched, this one just stood there. Their treats from lunch time (corn, apple) are only half eaten.

Back to being worried sick again!!!

 

[i_am2bz]

Okay, update...tell me if this isn't strange...

I went to check on my Wierdo chicken, she was standing in one of the nesting boxes. Just standing. Not sitting like she was going to lay. Just...standing.

Two hours later I go out to lock up the coop (after dark), & on a hunch take a flashlight with me. She's in the EXACT same spot...just standing in the box.

I don't know if this was the right thing to do, but I picked her up & set her on the roost. She was a little wobbly but stayed there.

Anyone ever see THAT before?? I'm really at my wits end with this bunch!

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Ok, time to take bigger measures.
This is what I would do. Feel free to modify as needed.

Try and get them all in a different and clean place.
Garage maybe? Or temporary pen on porch.
Give them all a syringe full of yogurt with a few drops of clo.
If you have any kombucha around, add some to their water.
Use any other meds and dusting powders you are inclined to use.
Warm oats is a good food.

Clean the coop out fully.
Spritz everything with diluted bleach water. Scrub whatever you can, including the feed and water containers.
Add fresh bedding.

Give all the hens a full going over. Beak to claws to tail tip.
Pics may help us as well.

 

[i_am2bz]

Just got an email from my local chicken expert. He suspects Marek's. I'm absolutely devastated.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Just got an email from my local chicken expert. He suspects Marek's. I'm absolutely devastated.

Oh boy.

Get it verified asap, and start sanitizing.

 

[i_am2bz]

Thank you, BB. Don't know how I'm going to get a wink of sleep tonight. I'm in shock.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Thank you, BB. Don't know how I'm going to get a wink of sleep tonight. I'm in shock.

Be careful about visitors and seeing anyone else that might have chickens.
You'll get through this!