Hi all
do today I finally took one of my hens to the vet.
He looked at her ears, eyes, throat, crops, listened to her heart, checked her butt.
He said she looked healthy as can be.... great!
He took her poop sample for testing just in case, which she graciously provided sample in the box on...
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actually the report says she had abundant body fat. English is my second language and I understood that abundant meant she had too much body fat.
Also I was wondering... is it safe for us to eat the eggs? In case the other hens could possibly be also sick would the egg be effected...
Hi Brad
thank you so much for reading. Yeah I understood as much too. My hens were probably less than 2 or so. They were still very young.
I understood from rough reading that some outside birds who feed on our hens food might have brought some disease in.
I guess i have to talk to vet and get...
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I had two hens that died within two weeks of unknown causes.
With the second hen we had necropsy done at UC Davis and we got few preliminary reports and one final report sent to us. They all say pretty much the same thing.
It is almost confusing to read and it sounds like totally foreign...
So today my second hen died in my arm on the way to vet.
We have found her in the evening sitting in the water dish. I thought she was already dead.
But she was alive but wouldn't walk just sit down.
I took her inside the house, put her in box and wrapped her in towel to keep her warm.
she just...
thanks everybody
I have dag out my hen Irenka and decided to send her for necropsy since UC Davis apparently does if for free.
She started breathing very hard and wheezing I accidentally touched her throat and she was made kind of chocking noise. Right before she died she started drooling...
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thank you
I am sorry about your loss too...
I take it so hard. I thought they were just hens but I wan to get ridall of them because I cannot stand seeing them die...