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  1. Fantail Leghorn

    Topic of the Week - How long do chickens live?

    Cant say her age for sure, but we have had her 10 years now and her previous owner was deadset that she had been with his son for that many years too. In any case, when we got her she and her sisters were old and had already stopped laying. Her two sisters died within the year, but shes still...
  2. Fantail Leghorn

    Mysterious illness in an old hen?

    Thats actually a fantastic idea for a tube, Ill try tomorrow after the vets - thankyou! Im sorry you had to do that to your chick, its hard to do - but if it was suffering it was the right thing to do. The tree is a beautiful memorial to their life, well done. I've done something like that once...
  3. Fantail Leghorn

    Mysterious illness in an old hen?

    Her condition has changed a bit. She sits down all day - unless she poo's near her feet, then she will stand - and pants heavily, constantly. There is a noise when she breathes and it sounds asthmatic. Ive moved her onto thick mixtures of baby parrot feed and sugar+salt water, with the...
  4. Fantail Leghorn

    Mysterious illness in an old hen?

    Thankyou ClaireDL, Sutremaine and mg15. This christmas hasn't been a fantastic one for me, thank you for taking time out to help me help Fantail. mg15, you are right. I'll be keeping her outside now with her friends (even if i have to lock the nesting box to stop them from going back in)...
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    Mysterious illness in an old hen?

    I haven't actually measured how much water I've been giving her - enough to keep her crop balloon-like. This morning she did a poo. it was a liquid, black one that I could smell from halfway down the hall (soaked into towels - not the carpet, thank goodness). Ive fed her ground oats in warm...
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    Mysterious illness in an old hen?

    I joined just to ask this. I have an old hen, 19 years old, who fell ill on christmas eve. Well, more ill. For the past 10+ years she has had a pendulous crop that we have tried and failed to cute. Despite of this she has been very happy in life. She has disgusting burps, is very thin and poops...
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