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Final update. Miss Echo had decided that the only foods worthy of excitement were sprouts and watermelon...hard to gain weight on that diet. We had a couple mild days so I put her out in the small quarantine coop with a friend, still no interest in eating actual food. It was a difficult...

Oh believe me, I've tried nearly every food that's edible to chickens. She's being very picky. No interest in eggs. Casually picks at wet/canned cat food. She goes through spurts with the meal worms, one days she'll eat as many as she can, the next day she only wants a few. Yesterday and...

Update So with the cold weather that we were having and her low weight I decided to go with the third option and just keep her in the garage 24/7. I noticed the tiniest scab at the bottom of the incision Thursday morning, by Friday night it had grown a little. She wasn't eating much on her...

She had a big poop this morning so it appears that her digestive system isn’t the problem. There was a tiny bit left in the crop, which again went away with massage. She’s definitely tired, but isn’t acting “sick”. I put her back out with the flock and no one seemed bothered by her. When I...

Update I weighed her when I got home from work. Down to 2lbs 16oz. She had some food in her crop that I was able to massage to her gizzard. She ate a few mealworms and picked at her feed. Ive decided that for now she can come into the garage at night. I can pluck her from the roost after...

@CSAchook it's such a small amount of food that I don't know that a crop bra would help, maybe the size of a marble? It would have to be pretty tight, which may not be comfortable for her given how thin she is. I've used a crop bra before for a hen with sour crop, so I do have one. @azygous...

She doesn't appear to be molting anymore. It's hard to tell since she was bullied a little bit, the red sexlink pulled a few feathers out when she was reintroduced to the flock post surgery. She's fearful/stressed enough that she won't eat from my hand or if I'm too close, or if she's...

So here is the saga of Echo the two year old Easter egger hen. Echo stopped laying late August/Early September and I believed she was starting a long, slow molt. She's the bottom of the pecking order and is very nervous of people, so she's always a little stressed and flighty. In the spring...