Recent content by triciakay

Thank you all. ❤

I am so grateful to have a community who will understand how sad I am... Our first two chickens, Wilma and Betty, have died. We lost Wilma due to sudden and unknown illness on September 9, 2020. Today, December 2, 2020, Betty was killed by a foster dog. I felt helpless and so sad when we lost...

They don’t do a necropsy there, said it would be $500 to send her to Texas A&M to get it done. I am going to clean the coop and watch my other hen carefully. Wilma was sick about a month ago and always had trouble laying. My remaining hen, Betty, is a superb layer and has never been ill or...

She passed before they could examine her. 😢 RIP Wilma. ❤️ They only offered xrays and fecal test to determine the cause. I am now worried about my remaining hen. I know she needs company. How soon do I need to get a new hen or two?

Going now. Thanks.

Hello, I have a sick chicken with similar symptoms so I wanted to answer these questions and see if you could help me out. I’d take her straight to the vet but I haven’t found one near that will even examine a chicken. 1. Her crop feels full and squishy. I didn’t notice an odor. 2. What has...

I put her in a tub of water (that’s what she wanted to do last time she had similar symptoms, stand in water) but the poor baby can’t keep her head up.

Hi. I’m new to posting, and I need some help. I tried to read through posts of people whose chickens had similar symptoms but there’s a lot of info kinda scattered all over the place. One of my hens was on her roost this morning when I came to open the coop. She is usually at the door, squawking...

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Hello, Kathy! I was hoping you could help with my sick chicken. I came to let them out of the coop and she was still on the roost (she’s normally squawking at the door, ready to run out.) She’s a random layer, sometimes she lays while on the roost, or soft shell eggs, or she eats her eggs, etc...