Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[Isabel]

Hi

 

I wormed my lot about a month ago with the Marriages Flubnevet pellets but still one hen is producing the most vile looking poos. Huge, wet and some are green. I think its my May hatched girl - she's looking hunched and miserable today. Reading over a previous thread, a poster's hen had similar symptoms and turned put to have Cocci. I have the Cocci liquid treatment - would it do any harm to treat all of them in order to rule it out of that is the problem?

 

Thanks

 

Isabel

[Mrs_B]

Are all the chickens producing green poos? I thought it was sometimes down to hens not eating and the green comes from the bile in the stomach passing through due to lack of food in the body.

 

From my experience - one of my hens had green poos because she stopped eating her normal amount but she also had cocci (but she stopped eating because of the cocci but in fact her poos were green because of the result of not eating rather than the cocci - if that makes sense!)

 

Could you get your vet to send off a sample to be absolutely sure? I did this recently and so glad I did because I was 110% sure what was wrong and I am now treating my birds confidently. I would get advise from the vet regarding what to treat your hens with just to be sure

 

Good luck!

 

x

[Egluntyne]

If you do use it, you will have to discard the eggs as it isn't licensed for use in laying hens. Personally I wouldn't treat hens which are not showing signs of illness.

[Isabel]

Thank you both for your replies. I will try to s"Ooops, word censored!"e up a sample tomorrow and drop it into the vets - I suspect their chicken knowledge will be nil but at least we can send it to the lab. Only worry is that I won't get results back til next week and I'm not sure she will survive that long. She looks miserable - really hunched up and standing apart from the others. Managed to catch her this pm and had a good look at her - nothing visible from the outside! Not quite sure what to do now. I won't treat until I find out what's going on - she hasn't come into lay yet but I don't want to, perhaps needlessly, have to dump eggs from the other girls. Anyway, she's warm and dry in the henhouse now although I'm keeping an eye to make sure none of the others are picking on her.

 

As always, an further advice will be more than appreciated.

 

Isabel