Any chicken experts about ?

[f1rob]

3 bantams in a house and all seemed fine till this morning "clara" (women!)was always the 1st out of the hut but not this morning
Very sluggish hunched up ,when I picked here up found out she is flesh and bone (she is so well feathered she looked fine !
Till today she has been feeding fine-corn, layers mash.sweetcorn ect so don't ungerstand the weight loss ???
Day has gone on and most of the day she has had one eye closed ? no redness or discharge but she keeps bending her neck round and rubbing the closed eye on her back ??? any ideas anyone

[f1rob]

Thanks for the reply checked her/the house for red mites also to see if it was lice and its all clean
Don't think she is egg bound, seen that before and this is different(or her reaction to it is)

[f1rob]

Turns out it was Gape worm
Thou they were wormed not all worms are covered and had to get a new wormer from the vet that controls it
4 days on the new treatment and Clara is back to full health its just as well we found out, as just as we started treating the birds another started to show symptoms
View images for gape worm on google and you will see the weird affect it has on hens

[f1rob]

Vet didn't have a clue ! was down to the power of the internet and you tube !
Same here ,in the middle of Norfolk surrounded by game birds (but never had a problem till now
Very effective treatment thou you could see results in 24hrs