The next day she was completely fine!! As if nothing happened. I guess she had a bad jump off of the top of the coop ramp. Thanks for the responses though! I certainly got an education as to what different causes there can be for paralysis.
I have a small flock (4 chickens). One of them is a White Leghorn that just this morning was completely fine, laid a nice egg yesterday and untill noon today was completely healthy with no signs of anything amiss. At lunch today I noticed that she was laying on the ground. I found that she...
So here's the details: My EE was nearly 2 years old. She had been laying eggs for a little less than a year, and then right at the end of fall she went through a molt and stopped laying eggs. After the molt, she looked really great and healthy with her new feathers. But she did not lay eggs...
Thanks so much for the info. However, I was mostly wondering if shelless aggs ever accompany appetite loss and feather loss and if those three things together can be caused by some specific illness. I don't think it is a calcium deficiency as all my other chickens are doing fine. I never...
I am relatively new to chickens and still learning, so please bear with me! Anyway, I have an Easter Egger who has been laying very consistently for nearly a year now (we got her as a pullet). She always ate well and was very healthy with great egg production. All of a sudden about 3 weeks...