1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.)
Approx 2 year old ex-battery. She's seems thin, I can feel her breastbone.
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
Over the past two weeks or so I noticed her looking quite rounded and wide...
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Anyone got and ideas about this?
Shirley is an ex-battery hen, probably about 2 and a half years old. A month ago, whilst she was our last remaining hen, she developed some real mouse catching skills. She embarrassed us when we had friends round by swallowing (a dead) one whole in front of...
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On the 7th April one of my hens (whilst relaxing under the kitchen table!) had a sudden and very noisy diarrhoea poo, it was black and very nasty looking but, since it didn't seem to put her mood up nor down, I just assumed it was something she had eaten (my neighbour had put out bird...
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I've got 4 ex-battery hens and one of them has been giving me cause for concern for a month or so now, because she has gradually developed a very pale comb. I though it might be anaemia, so I dusted them all for mites, and wormed them all. I kept her under observation and fed her...