My mom has several pens with different kinds of chickens in each one. The pen is basically a big one with wire running through the middle to separate them into smaller pens. Recently the chickens in the middle pen has began dieing.
It's odd. It starts out with the tail feathers dissappearing. (Even the rooster has none) then the feathers from around there butt disappear too. I noticed today that the chickens in this one pen seem to have very skinny legs. (Of course I'm comparing them to my very fat chickens so maybe they just look skinny lol). Anyway, they seem to simply die at night. She seems to be losing 1-3 chickens a night to whatever this is. I'm thinking it must be some kind of parasite since they are all feed the same thing and only one pen seems to be effected by it. I gave her some DE to put in the feed. But does anyone have any idea what could be causing this or how to stop it? I made a picture of one of them after it had died. I'm not sure how to explain it but it honestly looks like it's butt is maybe stretched. ( I would post the pic but didn't want to gross anyone out). I believe they also have diarrhea. If anyone has any ideas on what this could be or what to do about it I would really appreciate it.
