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'lash eggs' definitely connected... I asked a friend to dispatch Limpy yesterday and autopsy revealed internal laying (I have pics if anyone wants). A third of her body weight was the eggy mass building up inside. A few bits had managed to escape but there was no apparent infection. She really...

OK - cucumber worked its magic. I got a full syringe of food into her for the second time; with some applesauce in it. She ate a lot of pomegranate seeds (I know! They like pomegranate!) and is now pecking at some wet bread with considerable enthusiasm. I already have egg yolk, greek yoghurt...

Thank you very much, Kathy. I fear it is hopeless, she just looks awful now. Abdomen very hard, blackening comb and lost 100g down to 1500g today. Although poop is not too bad; wet and slimy but with some substance. I made applesauce with lovely fresh apples, went to find her in the garden...

Weighed the Limpy chicken yesterday: 1600g with a full crop. Her contemporary chicken (who is a stonking, greedy bird with full, fresh feathers) weighs 2200g. Cannot find baby bird food locally. Local vet sold me a lamb feeding syringe/tube for £1.75 (about $2.50) but the tube is not any...

Thank you so much for all the information here and elsewhere on BYC. Getting desperate with my poorly chicken; I am fairly sure it will be the cancer that has carried off my previous ex-farm layer hybrids so it might not help, but you never know. What little she was eating was coming thru...