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Thanks, speckledhen. That's useful information and will help me be aware during molts to come. My hen who died was a heavy layer; poor thing, not much reward for all the eggs she gave. Anything helpful diet-wise that would help molting transitions?

Dawn, I'm so sorry about the turn of events. I had a hen die a couple of months ago from what I thought was internal laying but may have been peritonitis. I, too, did the baths and massages to no avail. What struck me about your last post is that your hen had not layed since moulting. My hen...

Well, we can continue to be newbies together because I don't feel too far along that learning curve either. All my chicken experiences just make me realize how much I don't know. I isolated my hen for eight or nine days. Once she tired of scrambled eggs and buttermilk and started making...

Sounds like upper respiratory to me but I'm partial to that diagnosis because I've been going through it with my chickens lately. YUK! It's kind of confusing. I put the whole flock on oxytetracycline for a week, isolated the hen. Someone posted to me that a combination of gallimycin and oxy...