Thanks. Have been sitting here researching and now realize chickens that can’t vomit per se.
I‘m hoping this was an individual problem since that means the rest of the flock is not at risk for the same problem. It’s been hot here (for Vermont) and I had attributed Juliet’s lethargy to that...
Help! My 3-year-old cream legbar Juliet started acting lethargic 24 hours ago and I went to bring her into the garage for isolation in a large dog crate this morning. She started throwing up a foul-smelling clear slightly viscous liquid on me, then had a seizure and died in the crate. 😪 The...
Just looking here for answers. First time I've had a rooster in this young flock of 7, and so far he has "predicted" each new egg layer by mating with her just before she lays her first egg. Before that - no interest. He is the same age as the pullets.
Another interesting thing - one of my...
Sorry I misunderstood you. Yep, I now see a new Easter Egger in your second pic. All girly girls except for your light Brahma. What a good-looking little flock!
When you say the other 5, that's a different light Brahma in the first pic of post #228? If so, that light Brahma is also a boy. Otherwise, I'm seeing four pullets of four other breeds heading toward point of lay.
Thanks for the kind compliment! I thought the same thing about her chest when I looked at the pic but I attributed it to her just having been bathed and not dried as thoroughly as usual since I was putting her outside on a warm day. She was kind of "puffed out" like she gets on the roost during...
Cleopatra says hello from her puppy playpen this morning.
Her prolapse went back in today (!) and she was doing so much better by late this afternoon that we put her back in the run with the flock, watching carefully to make sure that she wasn't being picked on by the others and that she was...
We are darkening the windows in the garage and will cover her crate there for all but 8 hours a day - meant to mention that. Thanks for the suggestion, @Eggcessive!
I'll try to post some pics after I have brought her in for the day but the new complications are that the prolapse has not improved -- if anything, it's worse -- and yesterday she started excreting liquid egg from her vent.
The routine has settled into a long soak in a warm betadine-solution...
Update: First the good news (and in my next post I'll explain how we got here): Cleo is feeling *much* better, on her second day of no live maggots on her flystrike wound, and enjoying spending part of the day on grass next to her flock mates, albeit confined to a puppy playpen. At night she is...