I feel like this community was so helpful to us in her times of need, you deserve to know. I really appreciate the support we had here. Here she is being her cheeky self
That's all we can do really isn't it? Give them their best life possible. Polly was destined for a tricky one, but we got to fill it with love too. It sounds like Daffy was lucky to have you. Ascites is an awful thing. Bless you.
Hi everyone! Update. Polly had an awesome life after this for almost a year. An unrelated issue took her eventually. But this was entirely recoverable. She was a trooper and had a fabulous sense of humour with the best comic timing. I miss her daily.
Hi all! Thank you so much for your advice. The poor little thing had two massive hard shelled eggs stuck and really wasn’t likely to live. Thankfully the vets managed to remove the eggs with minimal damage by forcing a vent prolapse and then suturing a small tear. After a week of pain meds and...
Hi all! My hen (20 wk old fully vaccinated ex comercial) appears to have two rather large eggs stuck way back in her oviduct.
It feels like one is low down and the other is on top. I’m waiting on a vet appointment tomorrow but that will be over 48 hours after we first found the stuck egg. She’s...