[chuckmum]

My Legbar is not herself today, she is still interested in food, but after eating goes off and stands in a corner. She has had a dirty bum, which I needed to trim last weekend. She has very red wattles and a red bottom, does she have a temperature, how do I check? She is nodding off to sleep and her tail is down - she is not right. I thought she was limping at the weekend but wasn't sure. Any suggestion? What should I do?

She probably needs worming again, I use Verm-X for chickens, I need to do them again. She is my son's chicken and all he talks about...  She has rather runny whitish poo, and a temperature I'm sure, is there anything that will help lower this?

[Pretty Chick]

does she have a temperature, how do I check?

You could try feeling under her wings to see if her temperature is higher than the other hens'.
Maybe a trip to the vets is needed.

I'm sure someone will be along soon to give you more and better advice than mine.
Best wishes and hope she recovers  

[dizzylizzie]

Ok, chickens hide their illness very well, so generally when you see that they are unwell they are normally feeling really grotty. The easiest way to see if a chuck has a temp nis to feel under her wing, then compare it with a healthy girl. Chickens temps normally run quite high (around 39.4) so she will feel warm to you which is why its important to compare. Verm x is really just a laxative, it dosent kill the worms. Lots of people on here use flubenvet. Its a very good wormer, you can but it from your vets or google it and it will come up with a list of stockist. You dont need a script, and there is no egg withdrawel.The hot weather can give them runny poo, as can worms, have you looked at Aunty's poo pages ?if she was my chicken i would take her to the vets, it could be something as simple as a heavy worm burden, but it could be something more as chucks do hide their illness like i say, and you can loose them quite quickly . let us know what happens, and what you decide to do

[chuckmum]

Thanks, I am home early from work tomorrow, so if she is no better I will take her to the vet.

[Icklemonkey]

Please take her to a vet ASAP as we have just lost one of ours and it all happened very quickly.  I don't mean to be morbid, I just wouldn't want the same to happen to you x

[chuckmum]

Got home early and she is much better - thank goodness! She is running after the corn, preening and pecking about in the garden, phew. I will get some better worming stuff at the weekend though. My son is really pleased his girl seems ok again.    I shall be keeping a close eye on her as well as our lovely little chicks who have now been brought out by their mums!
Thanks for the advice