r/Chicken • u/golden_kingyo • Jul 01 '24

Girlfriends chickens mysterious sickness

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So my girlfriends chickens have been suddenly acting sick now and been dying within the week of showing these symptoms. This is the second one in two months that’s showed these symptoms and nothing but spraying a bit of water had been helping and even afterwards they just get all dropping again. Symptoms: Lethargy, diarrhea, not eating or drinking, sleeping all the time Location: Texas (but they have plenty of water throughout the day and get spritzed) Breeds: ornamental chickens

Girlfriend has some pictures of the icky butt too, but doesn’t want it posted unless specifically asked for. Note: she’s tried to take them to the vet but they don’t have any exotic vets within 50+miles and her mom refuses to help medicate them or let her take them to get help/tested.

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u/Pullet Jul 02 '24

If you are in the US, your state offers backyard poultry disease processing. They’ll take the recent dead/dying and try to identify what is wrong as part of disease surveillance.

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u/golden_kingyo Aug 06 '24

Not sure if Texas offers that, but we tried asking the local vets and they all want $600+ to test them.