Recent content by brickchicken

Actually, she still seems fine. I think she is laying just about every day and know for sure she laid today. Shes off the abx. She still has a water-belly (or, balloon-butt as my kids say), but otherwise seems none to worse for wear. It really seems crazy, but, there you go. As long as...

She is skinny. I have braced myself for her demise but still hoping we can keep her around a bit.

Thank for asking! She seems fine. Laid an egg yesterday so we decided.to put her back with her friends. So far so good. Still the water belly but no signs of infection or other trouble. Pretty crazy.

She is quite young and just started laying about a month ago. I'm not actually sure if she's laying regularly since we have three young hens and one 2 yo hen - young ones hatched in april I think - and have been getting 2-4 eggs a day for about a month. Ugh. This has been such an unlucky year...

looks like she had egg yolk peritonitis or aescites, yeah? I think we will be prolonging the inevitable. Oh well.

we are going to weigh her tomorrow and keep track of that. I have no idea why that didn;t occur ot me before.

Well Black has been isolated for two days in a dog carrier inside. I chose not to buy any expensive food for her, so she is getting her pellets and a scoop of mealworms everyday. She is pooping normally and drinking her antibiotic water just fine. Her poop is really stinky, but I've never...

Hello there, I have been reading the forums off and on for years, but only now felt compelled to create an account. This afternoon one of my kids noticed one of our hens had something wrong with her. When I got home, I looked and saw a small 2cm laceration a couple inches below her cloaca...