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I saw: “Like a banty on a June bug” under Chicken Behaviors - so pretty close!

maybe, but just before Blondie died in May, my partner and I commented that Penny was still running around like a spring chicken... She would go bounding from the deck to the back of the yard, it was fun to watch her... Whatever ultimately took her down may have been under the surface for a...

Well, the preliminary necropsy results just came in... poor Penny... With her cancer, there is clearly nothing we could have done to help her, except for euthanizing her... I feel very badly that she was in such a bad state, and especially so "emaciated"... in spite of our force feeding her...

Well, the preliminary necropsy results just came in... poor Penny... With her cancer, there is clearly nothing we could have done to help her, except for euthanizing her... I feel very badly that she was in such a bad state, and especially so "emaciated"... in spite of our force feeding her...

For those who aren't following the other thread about Penny... she died early Saturday morning.... thanks to those who offered advice. I took her today to UC Davis for a necropsy and will report back... Yesterday's events: she had very liquid droppings in the morning and moved and did very...

@Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock @HeatherKellyB @BugStalker 5:17AM Update: Penny just died. Thanks to everyone who helped. ------------------------------------------- Help! I woke up at 2 am and decided to check on Penny. I found her off her 2" perch on the floor of where she roosts and she was...

When I asked if I should continue it, he dismissed it and said she'd had enough... (I'd need to go back to check, but I did 2-3 days). I have to admit, I did wonder about that...but he doesn't seem to like to do lab work because he says it costs a lot...(I wish he'd let me decide...) I think a...

Just an update... Penny is still with us, but I think she is declining. I could find no evidence of droppings in the yard yesterday, so I don't think she pooped at all after yesterday morning... when the poops had gone from large puddles of liquid to more like they'd looked previously. So...

Thanks so much, I like this method a lot more than trying to stuff the hard, baked little balls of mash I'd made! It also made it easier to feed her more. I also like that it included the coconut oil and grit!

I'll try anything at this point... it was odd today, she was actually trying to eat greens today, and she'd pick them up and drop them... I thought she was looking for just the right size or consistency or taste? and so I finally just let her look at the whole bag, which sort of seemed to excite...

Today her droppings are no longer super wet, but her crop is still pretty full.... I'm hoping though, that might mean that at least she is absorbing more water than before... but she is *definitely* not out of the woods.... One interesting thing I discovered when I'm force feeding her.... I...

I hadn't! Thanks, I'll give it a try. That would be better than the hard little balls I made out of mash and baked. I haven't tried tube feeding yet, do you know if it is less stressful for the bird once you get it down?

Here it is mid afternoon, and so far has drunk a fair amount of water on her own, but she hasn't pooped since this morning and her crop is not emptying... It's probably not fair to her to keep force-feeding her for an extended period... she really hates it... but if I stop I think she'd just...

Yes, it does look sort of dry... I take it that means she isn't absorbing as many nutrients? The latest dropping is a definite improvement over the previous ones, not that it is good looking at all... just better than the ones overnight! First photo overnight, 2nd afternoon.

Hi all, Miss Penny is still with us, and actually seems a little better in spite of her droppings still being all watery like yesterday, and her crop is still pretty full. Fortunately, she does have a little more energy, maybe it was the increase in feed (forced.) Also, for the first time in...

Thanks - I'm still force feeding her but I am adding probiotics, which unfortunately are probably getting killed off by the Bactrim! She is still with us, her droppings are a lot like yesterday, but her crop is still pretty full. Fortunately, she does have a little more energy, maybe it was the...

@dawg53 and @Wyorp Rock Thanks for checking in! The vet wants me to finish the Bactrim and he also gave us some Pro-pectalin... here's what I posted on the other thread about the visit. ---------- Hi all, well, we went to the vet. He said to discontinue the worming medication, keep taking...

Hi dawg53, just want to reply to this possibility. For what it's worth, I haven't seen anything that looked the least bit bloody (old or new) even what could be intestinal shedding didn't quite look like other intestinal sheddings I've seen. However, in on of today's droppings, there appears...

Hi all, well, we went to the vet. He said to discontinue the worming medication, keep taking the bactrim, and he gave us a course of Pro-pectalin (an antidiarrheal with Kaolin, Pectin & Probiotics.) It seems odd to me to give her an antidiarrheal on the heels of s stool softner! We're to...

yes, she's still on antibiotics, I gave her ducolax about 5 hours ago, and I'm going to the vet now... thanks!