- Aug 22, 2012
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You can ask the vet to take an X-Ray of her abdomen and lungs.Today will/would be day six. I haven't given that or the evening dose of tetracycline yet. I dread it and I was thinking that if I was going to have her euthanized tomorrow first thing I wouldn't put either of us through it. Now I guess I will give her everything tonight and try to get a first-thing vet appt. for more discussion of a diagnosis. If the vet can't figure out what's wrong and the hen's not getting better, though, I'll still have to reconsider euthanasia because I don't want to make her suffer any longer. The thing that pretty much convinced me it was respiratory was that, after being with the sick girl for a few days, the second hen began having the same symptoms.