if you think she got into something have you tried to flush it out - there's an epsom salt or a molasses flush that is supposed to help...are you giving her polyvisol or some poultry drench to boost her strength? It sounds like she got into something she shouldn't have maybe?
Hi sortachicky - sorry about your Little Jerry....have you tried an epsom salt or molasses flush? I know there are some "recipes" for them on here somewhere and they are very easy...and doing this would get any toxins out of their system.......as for it being Marek's I don't know if they can...
Hi Sylvia - I am experiencing the same problem...my girl Evie won't come out and when she does she won't eat or drink and stands in the corner puffed up with her eyes half closed....I thought maybe she was going into a molt as well as being broody, but now I am very worried...I have only been...
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I think it's a combination of the breed and the pecking rank! I too have a beautiful Ameraucana who is smaller than the other hens and gets bullied, and she has not laid yet either...she is going on 9 months old...not to say yours will take that long, my girl Rocky has had a couple...
Wow - bad for them?
I give my hens cottage cheese (low fat) and plain yogurt regulary, no signs of issues like lactose intolerance or runny poops at all...I mix in oats, flax and spinach and sometimes grapes... they go gaga for it!
Free cottage cheese - I'd be all over that like a hen...
Hi - I really don't mean to hijack the thread but really wanted to ask advise on re-integrating a hen that has been confined for a leg injury!
Uzuri - you mentioned the less than a week not being a porblem, well my girl Rocky has been separated for 2 weeks as of tomorrow.
Today is her last...
This is a great thread! Here's my 2 rescues - first is Wiggy, the little black kitten found her at about 3 months old starving and sick in a tree at end of my driveway - she has attached herself to my spoiled pup Molly! She's the little black kitty in my avatar pic also!
Second is Cassie who...
Thanks crawfordmama - I will give it a try - and she is not contaigous....she hurt her leg badly coming off a roost...she just landed wrong!
I can tell she is lonely for sure
...she snuggles right up on me when I do let her out to clean her crate and such ...I like it, but it's not her...