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Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 09 8:47 am Post subject: Poorly chook with a dirty bum...any ideas?
She's got that typical hunched stance of a poorly chook. Not interested in food at all - but appears to be drinking water. Very claggy backside. Any suggestions anyone?

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 09 9:37 am Post subject:
Any other signs such as a hard crop? Have they had any different food recently? To be on the safe side, if you can't identify what it is I'd separate here from the others if you can.

Nicky cigreen

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Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 09 9:43 pm Post subject:
how are everyone else in the flock? any blood in poos in the hen house? is she laying at the mo?

@Calli

Joined: 03 Jul 2005
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Location: Galway

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 09 9:48 pm Post subject:
It has been a very miserable and damp winter and the one thing the cocci loves is damp. That said they go downhill very fast. Wings drop and blood in the droppings is the classic sign. Its not long until spring now on the upside

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Sun Feb 01, 09 10:17 am Post subject:
Well she didn't make it I'm afraid.I did what I could and tucked her up in some cosy straw last night but she was dead this morning. I forgot to say, Sylvester our cockerel died a couple of weeks ago too...and so did one of our lambs from last year

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 09 10:24 am Post subject:
aw shame

Nicky cigreen

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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 09 7:12 pm Post subject:

Mary-Jane wrote:

I forgot to say, Sylvester our cockerel died a couple of weeks ago too...and so did one of our lambs from last year

they just do sometimes.... sheep seem to make a hobby of it...

any ideas why?

re the chickens - i would keep an eye out for blood in poos, mucky eyes etc. with the others.

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 09 7:23 pm Post subject:
What a shame

spicycauldron

Joined: 28 Aug 2007
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Location: North Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 09 10:33 am Post subject:

If your hen spends time with one or more cockerels, and has been mated, she may be suffering a kind of STD called Vent Gleet. It's actually a form of thrush, which chickens also get in their guts, and is easily treatable, and you can find more information here:

https://ultimatefowl.atwiki.com/page/Vent%20Gleet

Vent Gleet is characterised by:

* Depression
* Loss of energy
* Rough feathers
* Diarrhoea
* Distended sour crop
* Slow growth
* Weight loss
* Decreased hunger and increased thirst
* Soiled vent feathers
* White sores near the vent
* Loss of feathers near the vent
* Reddened or swollen vent tissue
* Gray powdery or black waxy substances on the vent
* Very bad smelling droppings
* Patches in the throat that look like yeast or wax
* Unexplained laying problems
* Swollen vent

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 09 10:55 am Post subject:
Thanks for that Andy. Funnily enough I thought of that myself having seen it in a magazine only last night... Our cockerel died a couple of weeks ago so he's obviously given at least one of the girls a dose of the clap before he popped his clogs... I'm keeping a close eye on the rest of the girls. So far so fingers crossed...

spicycauldron

Joined: 28 Aug 2007
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Location: North Yorkshire

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 09 3:56 pm Post subject:

I'd definitely keep an eye on them. We have a Light Sussex, she always has a dirty backside while her sisters are clean. We ended up cutting off her feathers from round there, and that has helped but I think ours is a case of lazy, perhaps. Or having something wrong with her that isn't illness as such. She's the one that has a hernia that might have led to her death when she came into lay, if it caused problems, which so far it hasn't. Glad we didn't have her put down as she's a fine, lively hen albeit with a belly structure not quite finished because the vet thought she was helped from the egg.

It's untreatable, the hernia that is, can't be seen by the other hens, and hasn't got any worse so we just think that might have something to do with her inability to groom as frequently as the others. She will probably, however, have to be separated out as and when she enters into moult as there's a risk the others would see the lump underneath her if the feathers aren't there for a while.

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