Recent content by wemimew

Hi everyone, I am hoping someone can help me out here. It has started getting cold and the cursed Autumn respiratory infections have started - it happens every year and is a right pain. One hen is getting a gurgle and sneezing so she needs to be treated quickly before it can get any worse. In...

Old post but wanted to mention I had a pullet just like this. Got a necropsy and turned out to be cancer everywhere 😢 sorry you lost your girl.

I should also mention - this has been ongoing for a month or so. I just assumed she was recovering from starting to lay eggs at first but her body should have adapted to it by now.

Hi everyone, this one has me stumped - I can’t find a single piece of information online so thought I would come to my brains trust. I have a girl that started laying eggs a couple of months ago - everything leading up to laying is fine, behaviour perfectly normal and she lays her eggs just...

Thank you everyone for your support - it really meant alot to me. I spoke with the vet this evening and got an update on the necropsy results - it was the right decision. She had tumors in her liver, kidneys, proventriculus, intestines and pancreas. Her liver was also 3-4x its normal size. She...

Thank you everyone for your kind words - I really do hurt when I loose them - but that just means they brought me a lot of happiness so I find peace in that thought. She wasn’t suffering - with exception of that one really bad day - which always makes the decision harder, it would not have been...

Day 16. Moe was doing well thismorning but I decided to push her vet appointment for her next X-ray ahead because I honestly felt that this was more than just a gizzard impaction. Things were just not right even though she was improving. I took her for a (very long) drive to an avian specialist...

Day 15. Moe’s still going... somehow. Did a complete turn around the day after my last post and seemed to be having the best day yet, also improved today. Poops are now either solid with a good white cap (though still completely green and full of plant material) or she has the odd poop that is...

The rotten little things will crawl all over you, live in your favorite chair, your bed, etc and bite you and every other human they come in contact with, however they will ultimately die and disappear from inside. They need birds to survive and cannot survive off us - timeframe is one to two...

Wondering how you went with your girl as it sounds exactly like what I am working on at the moment.

13. Poor Moe, she’s not doing too good today. Her condition has deteriorated and she is staying still and open beak breathing (no gasping though). I got the stethoscope out and had a listen to her air sacks and fluid is in the abdominal one, you can clearly hear it - the lungs themselves sound...

Next update - day 12. She has been a lot more lively and wanting to move around more but does still have the odd period where she fluffs up and stays still for a while. Poops are more ‘normal looking’ although they are a very dark green. I have noticed that to get her pooping she has to be...

Day 10 - oh my gosh it was on today! Little Moe (don’t think I have actually mentioned her name yet lol) got booted out of her pen at dawn before she could eat the bedding and everything overnight looked the same - I was tossing up the idea that euthanasia may be a better way for her to go...

It’s so odd that you mention Coca Cola! At the start when I was under the impression it was packed full of grit I ran some experiments on shell grit in citric acid at different concentrations with the amount of grit I guessed would be in her system. I tied the top of the jars off with an elastic...

Tonight is day 9. She was slow during most of the day and poops were small and dark green as usual. When inspected there is grasses and grit in them though so it isn’t all digestive enzymes. I did another smear and found nothing remarkable and did my first gram stain on a slide but only found...