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    Creme Legbar increasingly lethargic, puffy

    Thanks, everyone for your help and thoughts and kindness. She was clearly so in decline by yesterday that the only humane thing was to help her go quickly. I'm having a necropsy done at UC Davis to see if I can learn anything. We'll miss her.
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    Creme Legbar increasingly lethargic, puffy

    Reporting back to @Eggcessive and other helpful people here. Since I’m new to keeping hens this is the first time I’ve tried to check crops so I’m not 100% confident, but I think her crop is not enlarged. The pictures yesterday were a bit deceptive on that because her feathers are so puffed out...
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    Creme Legbar increasingly lethargic, puffy

    Wow, thank you so much. I’ll check all these things in the morning and report. She’s definitely lost weight—very light now.
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    Creme Legbar increasingly lethargic, puffy

    Thanks for your concern. Her abdomen feels normal I think. It’s definitely worrying me that it could be something like that. She’s just seemed “off” for a while now.
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    Creme Legbar increasingly lethargic, puffy

    No, they haven’t. That’s not a thing I know about.
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    Creme Legbar increasingly lethargic, puffy

    Hi all, I'm a pretty new chicken person, 16 months into this. One of my birds is a Creme Legbar. We raised her from a day-old chick starting in Feb 2020. She and her two flockmates were outside from around June in their coop. She started laying in July and was going well until September, when...
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    New San Francisco member

    Hi everyone. We're the first-time companions of three backyard San Francisco chickens: a Barred Rock, Black Star/sex link, and Creme Legbar. All acquired as day-old chicks in February 2020 just before the pandemic lockdown began! They're wonderful birds and we've had a lot of fun with them. We...
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