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I finally have all the results from the vet & histo labs about Lorraine. The tissue in question was not her kidney but actually her ovary. The white lesions/nodules were in fact regular healthy ovary follicles but they presented differently because Lorraine was on the contraceptive implant. The...

I know, it’s just that momentary “oh god…” when you think of all the possible consequences and of course my mind tends to go to the worst conclusions first. The more I learn about chickens the more I realise how much there is to learn about chickens. Viruses are so weird like that how they can...

Alright noted. Thank you for the information. Now I just need confirmation or a different answer from the vet. My broodies have hatched six clutches of chicks between them in the same coop and yard as the rest of my flock and I’ve never had any chicks noticeably suffer. I hate to think that...

Thank you :hugs

Thanks for your reply. If it is LL, I wonder if one of my existing chickens had it first and gave it to Lorraine when she was re-homed to me and she succumbed because she was older — 4+ years. I don’t have a rooster so none of my hens hatch their own eggs. However I do have hens that go broody...

Okay I’ll get back in touch with them and ask about it. If it was lymphoid leukosis, do you know if there were any treatment I could have done for Lorraine? Would the rest of my flock be affected now? I’ll do my own research too of course but if you know about these things I would be grateful...

I haven’t got the report yet. I believe she did mention leukosis or something similar. I’m gonna give them another week or so before following up because the Christmas/New Year time is so hectic.

The vet hasn’t provided a formal report yet because the necropsy was a bit of a mystery. Lorraine had no cancer, no digestive obstruction, no reproductive disease, absolutely nothing out of the ordinary EXCEPT one of her kidneys was twice the normal size, discoloured and covered in white...

Today I said goodbye to Lorraine. She had a peaceful and painless death. Her temperature went down overnight (I’d given her some meloxicam). However the fact she lost 1/3 of her body weight over the course of the month, had complete crop stasis and all testing came back normal pointed to...

I took Lorraine’s temperature and it was 42.6 C / 108.68 F so she has a fever. I will be calling the vet tomorrow to see if I can take her in and get their opinion on whether it’s worth trying antibiotics or whether it’s time to say goodbye. I don’t want her to suffer. She is staying with the...

I appreciate your experience and knowledge always and I think the intuition you’ve developed over that timeframe is of great value and a blessing to me and everyone else on these forums. Thank you for sharing and for taking the time to respond and help me here. I’ve been checking Lorraine’s...

She’s a little more fluffed and hunched today but that’s the only change. Preferring to stand hunched rather than settle down and nap like yesterday. No yellow mucous, it’s mostly liquid with the odd bit of grass and stringy urate bits. She does brown liquid poops periodically which smell worse...

Yes I was. She stopped laying suddenly but was still demonstrating nesting behaviour, so we did it as a preventative. That was about a month ago. She has a bulge below her vent that is bigger when she is actively laying but shrinks to almost nothing when she’s not. At its biggest it has been...

I’m sorry to hear that.

Okay, that’s reassuring. I’m keeping her inside until the water from the flush goes down in her crop so that I can give her some proper fluids before putting her back outside. I’m not convinced she’s eating much or any of her regular pellet food, but she does graze the grass and look for bugs...

No real change this morning. She did some runny poops with a bit of grass overnight on the roost. Crop still has a golf ball sized hard mass which can be broken up, grit felt at the bottom. We’ve just done the second flush.

Thanks so much for your reply! We did a fecal test for any parasites and overgrowth of yeast or bacteria which all came out clear… which is not to say there isn’t yeast still present higher up in her system and in her crop. I’ll try the flush another two days… I kept her inside today to make...

Lorraine, my beautiful Lady in Pajamas, has had digestive troubles since she was re-homed to me about a year ago. She is a 5yo silver leghorn, currently on the Suprelorin implant so not laying (and moulting). She’s had a crop that won’t clear for about a month now. She has periodically had...