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I was told that a hen standing in a penguin like stance was a first sign of egg Peritonitis so Pingu got Antibiotics and was fine. Here is a pic of Pingu if it helps. Is yours standing like this?

Amy's swelling seems to have gone down a little. She is still on her anti biotics. It's still hot but not as swollen as it was initially. She is still perky and behaving normally and her wattles never swelled so we hope that things are looking up for her.

Quote: Bald birds with large pale floppy crops are common from Battery Farms. The crops are larger due to the heat in the farm cages so they can cool down. Amy has the swollen comb but her wattles aren't swollen. Hers is not normal at all. I think I need a 160 mile round trip to a poultry...

In the UK, Many of us give hens with impacted crops live maggots to eat (from a fishing supplies store). The theory being the maggot eats the gunk in the crop, the hen then eats the maggot and gains protein from it and all seems to be well. A lot of people prefer this to the hands on method in...

Quote: no diahorrea or any other symptoms. She's just as perky as any other hen in the first days after a rescue. We assumed she's been pecked and it was infected with pus but it doesn't seem to be the case. If only she could go to the vets and have the whole comb removed but then I'd worry...

Quote: I have brought her home under Jo's guidance. AS you can see if you look at the pictures this is not a large comb like a floppy hat some of the hens have but a very swollen comb. If you click the pictures they do enlarge so you can see properly. I thought perhaps I could get some advice...

Quote: It's exactly the same in the UK. We can't do anything for fear of offending some minority, quickly becoming the majority. We can't fly our flag. We don't celebrate our patron Saint George like the Irish celebrate St Patrick....it's as though they are trying to fizzle out England and...

Thankyou so much for your replies and kind words. We hope she makes it and the antibiotics zap any infection but as it is still hot and just as large, and bathing with warm water on a flannel hasn't relieved any pus I'm kind of assuming it's cancerous. I keep flopping it to the other side as...

I help Little Hen Rescue as much as I can by bringing a few ill ex battery hens for TLC and retirement. Poor Amy has such a swollen comb and is on antibiotics BUT we don't know what the problem is. Just for your information, I haven't let her get this bad. She was only rescued from the battery...

Hi all, I'm Lyn and am from the border of Lincolnshire, Norfolk & Cambridgeshire. I save ex battery hens and currently have 22. Two of whom were only rescued this weekend and are still on very wobbly legs. We also have a trio of Pekin Bantams and an incubator with 9 of their eggs in, hoping...