Well she's certainly a lot worse. No eating, no drinking, floppy comb, now seems to have a lump on her cheek that wasn't there a day or two ago. I've been trying to feed her egg yolks & oatmeal & yogurt but she will eat nothing.
Well she certainly has:
Lost weight
Seems depressed
Diarrhea
Decreased hunger. . .doesn't seem extra thirsty however
Soiled vent feathers
White sores. . .maybe sores. Kind looks a bit powdery.
Stinky
Swollen vent
OK. So I guess we're going with vent gleet. I suppose it makes sense as it...
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Well it looks like the yogurt would help with that. I guess she does smell a bit funky. Her crest is a bit dry and floppy too. My daughter is holding her and she is having success giving her pedialyte water and bits of watermelon. I need to look into cent gleet a little more as the...
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I was worried about that before so I gently flushed her out last week. All kinds of stuff came out but no cracked shell or anything like that. Should I try that again?
She's a Buff Orpington. About 2 years old. She's one of two left from my original flock of 5. She had a prolapsed cloaca last year but we fixed her up and she was fine and has been a consistent layer with no problems until recently.
There's something wrong with her but I'm not sure what. She...
I think it'd be WAAAAY easier to just fence the whole thing. Lovely garden!! CityChook, your garden is beautiful too. Ahhhh, it's still too early for us here in Michigan. Garden pics make me long for summer months!!
We had no luck with keeping the girls out of our garden last year. I doubt...