Chickens

Yana

Help, who has anything to do with chickens. I have always had a good and healthy chicken coop, but after this winter the chickens stopped eating millet, they only drink water and their droppings... I don’t know what to do, the doctor prescribes a lot of pills and expensive medicines, which I don’t really believe in(

Try consulting with another doctor or on specialized forums where people breed chickens. After all, before prescribing pills, you need to make a correct diagnosis, which, I think, the doctor did not do.

Where have you seen doctors these days who deal with chickens and at least understand something about them? If chickens eat their own droppings, it means they are fed poorly. My advice to the author of the topic is to buy them feed from a good manufacturer, millet is not feed for laying hens!

If the veterinarian has a good reputation, then it is worth buying medicine. But besides diseases, chickens have problems with nutrition in the absence of small stones (very fine gravel). Without them, food is not digested.

Try replacing the water with rice or oatmeal water. Chickens will not drink it well, but the procedure must be repeated for 3–4 days and all water must be removed from the drinkers. If they don’t eat anything at all, then feel their neck to see if there are lumps in the throat or any swelling. Maybe it's candidiasis.

The author of the topic is somewhat obscure here. I've been farming chickens for ten years, and it's hard to fool me. If they have normal food, the litter (even sick and hungry ones) will never eat.And if they only drink water, then it could be an infectious disease. In this case, you need to add an antimicrobial antibiotic to the water (ciprolet helps very well), and be sure to add vitamins to the grain feed, for example “Felucen”. If the chickens even refuse water, then dilute the antibiotic a little with water and pour it into the mouth 3 times a day. Usually all symptoms disappear within 2 days. Treat the chicken coop with slaked lime or a smoke bomb.

Do chickens eat their own droppings? This is something new. Perhaps they don't have enough calcium. Try giving crushed egg shells.

And my opinion is this: chickens have worms. If they have lost their appetite, it means they urgently need treatment. Now there is a lot of medicine and everything can be fixed. You can also introduce vitamins and other foods into your diet.

I think the chicken coop needs to be disinfected, and they need to be treated for worms a couple of times a year

Buy chalk and shell rock for the chickens and mix it into their food, it helps a lot, I mix it with their feed and my problem is solved. Good luck to you

In order for the chickens to remain healthy, the chicken coop must be periodically disinfected and treated with a smoke bomb, and the chickens must be given crushed egg shells, sand, clay and vitamins in food or water. And be sure to worm it twice a year. In winter, make sure that there are no drafts or dampness in the room, as this weakens the immune system.

You forgot about fish and meat and bone meal. It must be present in the diet; egg production instantly increases from this feeding.Give a tablespoon per 1 chicken per day.

Disinfecting the chicken coop and egg shells, which they need to add to their food, will help you; at our poultry farm, chickens are constantly given egg shells in addition to other vitamins, and without these shells they begin to eat their own eggs.

In addition to shells, you also really need fish and bone meal, chalk and shell rock. All this is on sale and is inexpensive. And supplies the chicken body with all the necessary minerals.

Yes, I agree with you that chickens do not have enough vitamins such as chalk and shell rock, we also provide it at the poultry farm, but more often, of course, they buy different types of feed, which are inexpensive.

Inexpensive feed has appropriate quality. I was convinced from personal experience: bad feeding, bad results. There is no weight gain, young chicks do not feather well. Adult chickens stop laying eggs. and all because of a lack of “calories”.

It is clear that the chickens have a problem with their diet, most likely your diet is monotonous and there is a lack of vitamins. To prevent problems in the future, read on the forums stories of successful poultry raising and what can be done. But I think they peck the droppings to restore their own microflora.

The author of the topic says “they don’t eat millet.” It’s an atavism to feed laying hens millet. There are dozens of types of feed for poultry. But people are reluctant to switch chickens to a normal diet. So it's not surprising that chickens peck their own droppings.

The author of the topic says “they don’t eat millet.” It’s an atavism to feed laying hens millet. There are dozens of types of feed for poultry. But people are reluctant to switch chickens to a normal diet. So it's not surprising that chickens peck their own droppings.