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Yeah, that's sort of the way I want to be and sometimes think of things, but it's just a fiction. We're living in a modern world and these farm animals are boutique accessories for our love. So it really hurts terribly for them to go away. I know there are probably more chickens than humans and...

You're making me cry; can't see the keyboard! (((Thanks for sharing your feelings.)))

Hi all - I agree too. And yet it seems we are not. If there is a next time I will be more alert. We buried her without really thinking about that. We could have probably unearthed her but the round trip to the lab is about 3 hours and... neither of us was up to it. We will learn to be better...

thank you, azygous

Well, friends ~ With a very sad heart I return to tell you that our efforts did not succeed. Zizania is dead. She wasn't dead this morning, she survived the night as I thought she would. She seemed perkier, better. And in the morning her ear seemed a bit less swollen. She was less labored in...

I did just check again, wondering whether that swelling was an artifact of maybe her being wet from the feeding or a funny angle she was resting. But no, you are indeed right that is a swollen... earlobe the picture I looked at seemed to suggest? I am going to hold a shred of hope this might...

Hmmm, intresting. I did notice a big lump but didn't think about it. There's so much popping out all over, and I have no sense of the "baseline". I did look in her mouth today, it was so interesting. I didn't see any lesions, but I wasn't really looking specifically. But I think I would have...

Oh, thank you very much! I have one now dead and buried 48 hours so they may no longer want it. -- oh, and if we're talking up at Davis, my dd is up there but it's a 6 hour drive or so. But I'm sure there'll be info for down here. Thank you!!

OK then, down the hatch it went. Let's see if the sometime miracle drug will work for here. I'm skeptical; I doubt it's bacterial but it's not like I have one wit of evidence, so. It may be hard for me to be angry with factory farms abusing antibiotics going forward. smh. All manner of good...

Really all 500mg?

Guess what I found. Amoxicillin. 500mg casules which has to be too much...?

Hm, I wonder if we should have brought the other, dead, chicken to ... dunno, "vector control" can't be right, whoever manages ag health in Los Angeles County?

Hm, there was another thread about coccidiosis so that's what you were probably thinking of. I'm in SoCal on the flats so we're not having a thaw. It's been wet but it's pretty dry. I'm down with the fungal theory but dh is skeptical. He's thinking something viral from little songbirds. But I...

Good ideas! You're right I'm countering a skeptical partner in all this. I wouldn't know how to get chicken blood out, lol! What's Corid? I didn't mention it...

Hm, I'll go raid the drawers... no antibx bc we use up the course as a rule. Is there any way to differentiate fungus/bacterium/virus?? I think it's clear there are neurological symptoms. How on earth to know why though??

Yikes. I'm worried it is/could be the mold. This one's crop is not nasty like the last, however.... OK, another pill down the hatch now. TY!

Is it that important to have the video? She's not actually having those jutters at the moment any longer. fwiw. She's really just quite still, looking like that photo above. :(

She has actually laid two eggs through all of this. What I've done - fed her 3 400IU pills/day - this is starting on the third day now. On d1 and d2 she consumed a fell scrambled egg+peas+layer feed. As well as other stuff. But on d3 we're on to the second egg, it's mixed with half a crushed...

I don't really have a youtube for uploading so will settle for a photo. @azygous and @Eggcessive were really helpful before; thank you. Reading around there seems to be some indication of mold causing problems. That's not out of the question with all the rain we've had... In her "sleep" or...

A second chicken of a flock of four is sick. The first seemed perhaps at first to have a sour or impacted crop; she died. There is a long thread about that. But when I finished attending to her, I realized her best mate in the flock was walking in tight circles. Oh no. Things have gone downhill...