- May 6, 2012
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Dear whom it may concern,
I live in Australia and my chicken's name is Jojo, it is a hen. I got it as a young chicken (in between three quarters hen and chick) in February.On Thursday the 3rd of may it started being more quiet and still. Then it stopped making gawk and cheep cheep sounds. I set it out in the garden to have a play but it just looked at me and stared, it was kinda squatting with the head close to the body. i gave it some grass and that's all it ate.Then i put it back in with a towel on top, i thought it was just tired but the next morning it couldn't stand up, it just squatted. it wouldn't even eat grass, her favourite treat. i left her alone to have some rest. Saturday morning it was still squatting and fell down twice. we went to the pet shop to buy a chicken lamp but there weren't any, we also looked for chicken blankets but there weren't any either. I got home and the chicken had fell down again. i put the chicken upright and placed a blanket on it. it looked really tired and kept closing it's eyes. this morning when i got to the cage there was a terrible surprise. the chicken was laying down wings spread out. i watched it for a little bit and the chicken kept on pushing against the cage floor. It kept on turning around and around. eventually i had to stop it or it would be too tired. I layed it down on the garage floor with a blanket covering it and a small container for a pillow. then i moved the cage to my laundry and then moved the chicken into the cage. it was warmer there but i put an oil heater half a metre away from the cage. Jojo just lay there. during the day it turned around in circles near four times, definitely a lot less than this morning. right now it is just sleeping, twitching every three seconds. it did that yesterday as well when it was sleeping while squatting. i hope to get some help before Jojo goes, and i hope she doesn't suffer too much.
Melody Lam
I live in Australia and my chicken's name is Jojo, it is a hen. I got it as a young chicken (in between three quarters hen and chick) in February.On Thursday the 3rd of may it started being more quiet and still. Then it stopped making gawk and cheep cheep sounds. I set it out in the garden to have a play but it just looked at me and stared, it was kinda squatting with the head close to the body. i gave it some grass and that's all it ate.Then i put it back in with a towel on top, i thought it was just tired but the next morning it couldn't stand up, it just squatted. it wouldn't even eat grass, her favourite treat. i left her alone to have some rest. Saturday morning it was still squatting and fell down twice. we went to the pet shop to buy a chicken lamp but there weren't any, we also looked for chicken blankets but there weren't any either. I got home and the chicken had fell down again. i put the chicken upright and placed a blanket on it. it looked really tired and kept closing it's eyes. this morning when i got to the cage there was a terrible surprise. the chicken was laying down wings spread out. i watched it for a little bit and the chicken kept on pushing against the cage floor. It kept on turning around and around. eventually i had to stop it or it would be too tired. I layed it down on the garage floor with a blanket covering it and a small container for a pillow. then i moved the cage to my laundry and then moved the chicken into the cage. it was warmer there but i put an oil heater half a metre away from the cage. Jojo just lay there. during the day it turned around in circles near four times, definitely a lot less than this morning. right now it is just sleeping, twitching every three seconds. it did that yesterday as well when it was sleeping while squatting. i hope to get some help before Jojo goes, and i hope she doesn't suffer too much.
Melody Lam