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My blue laced Wyandotte died last night. I am a little sad about this, and I am wondering if there is something more that I could have done. We got her last March, from a woman’s breeding stock. Her legs were bleached, so I think that she may have been older, maybe between three and five years...

: ( No more Pineapple. She fought hard, but I think by the time I started it was just too late. It was pretty clear she was suffering and in pain, but I still feel bad that I couldn't fix her. Thanks for all your help, everyone.

Well, I think tonight is Pineapple's last night. I got the blockage cleared with some olive oil and massaging and the next day it was empty. But, I think it just moved somewhere else. It has now been 2 days since she pooped. She has eaten a little and drank a little, but most of the water in her...

We're having some issues again :( She has stopped eating her crumble and will only eat if I let her 'free range' under the bird feeder. I gave her some meal worms yesterday and she ate those, however she hasn't been drinking hardly any water. I try to make her, but she's at maybe a tbsp a day...

We "free ranged" today...I took a picture for you. It mostly involved Pineapple laying on her side underneath the wild bird feeder and kicking herself in a circle. She ate a lot though, even some grass and sprouts. Also, we are up to 3 poos today! We are less than a month away from our...

:( Thanks! Bummer on the eggs though. I've been keeping track every day since we got chickens and right now we were averaging about 40 a week so that's a lot to throw out! I'll find something to do with them (we have a lake so I might see if the fishes want them, otherwise I'm contemplating...

Yea, Tiny is gluttonous. Some days when she's digging in the grass I consider making her a bra because it must be painful once she starts swinging! I think my father-in-law (she's one of the ones I stole from him) said she was one of his cornish hens. It's all my fault, I give them too many...

LOL I don't have skype, but I did snap some pictures. I didn't think I had any bantams (I just have "chickens," you know?) but now I'm thinking Pineapple and JoJo are bantams. I just thought they were small/young. JoJo weighed in at 2.25 lbs. Bearded Lady (my 'verified' Ameraucana, as in I...

Ugh. Pineapple is still around, but she can't stand up on her own or even right herself when she is on her side. It does seem like she's gaining a little more energy, but not weight. These last few nights she has started trying to clean her feathers, but she can't reach her preen gland. That...

Lol, I actually did itch her face :/ We have cocktiels too and they like their faces scratched and "hair" pulled so it was something I'm used to doing. I'll hold off on the antibiotics for now, but I'll try the dewormer today. This may seem like a stupid question, but how exactly do I get it...

It looks like it is a no-go on the Tylan; the cost seems to be outrageous, in fact it is more than I paid for all of my chickens combined. The first antibiotic I used was the terra-vet 10; do you think this would work if I tried another round? I'm not sure she got the antibiotic the whole...

Yes, she's still around. Two days ago after she got some water and food into her and I dusted her, she perked up again. Yesterday she ate quite a bit (for her), about 2 oz. Her new favorite thing is to knock her water up all over herself, so I rigged a new holder for it. She's eating and...

No, it was my fault for putting too much polyvisol in her water. The directions read a dropper full for an infant irregardless of size, so I figured it would be okay and she could process out the extra, but with her being in such bad shape I should have known better. I will give her a few days...

I'll read that and see what I can find; she hasn't done any actual bleeding outside. I did just see a teeny tiny little clear dot running around on her face, so I am wondering if the warm bath/blow dry hatched the remaining lice eggs. I dusted her with more Sevin just now, so I'm kind of...

Thank you for all your help! Her's her face (she's dozing off again). I just noticed she had some crusties on her eye. She's had those dark spots/scabs on her comb since before this happened, I don't know if that's anything or not. I checked her all over again looking for any creepy crawlies...

Well we might have taken a turn for the worse today :( Hope it wasn't anything I did. Yesterday when I first gave her the vitamins, I did a full dropper in her water. She only drank about 1/2 of a tbsp before I dumped it out and gave her regular water. This morning she was breathing out of...

I did put tiny bits of oyster shell in the crumble, but she wasn't interested in it so tomorrow I'll mix in a little layer crumble. I just got some polyvisol today (took me a while to find it); before I was giving her the save-a-chick electrolyte mix. How much polyvisol? I mixed 1 ml in with...

One of my ladies just had this a few weeks ago. We got 6 new birds and when they finally joined the rest, it rained for 3 days. Usually my old ladies were smart enough to stay inside, but for whatever reason they were all running around in the rain. They looked like wet rats :| A few days...

Here's your Pineapple update: Still alive. Saturday I had her in her sling, but she managed (twice) to somehow flip out of it and onto her back. So I made her a 'hammock' as our boys have started calling it, out of the PVC that held up the bird netting in my garden. It has worked well. I...

Yes, she did have lice! We bought the Sevin and dusted her as well as all of the other ladies. I'm going to clean out the coop today and give that a dusting too now that it stopped raining finally. I started dipping the bread in the vitamn water and she gobbled that up happily, so we have...