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Lady Di was named Diane after a good friend. Back in the early days all my chickens got named after friends and family. Lady Di was one of the very first three baby chicks I began my flock with. Over the many years since, she outlived all the chickens. She became quite an influence over the...

Lady Di is dead. I euthanized her to spare her more than the one bad day she's had in her 13 1/2 years. Yesterday was bad for her. She didn't open her eyes at all, and slept most of the day under the heat lamp. Didn't eat at all. She may have been in pain, and it was time to end it.

Thanks for that info. I had been treating my hen with gout with tumeric, but I didn't see that it made any difference. She's now getting only prednisone. Right now, she's the only one with this sort of disorder. I'd love it if you or others would test the curcumin on arthritic chickens and let...

Sorry I missed this until this minute. Generally, most of my hens reach age seven or eight without any health issues. After that, as with aging humans, minor health issues begin to crop up, but most do not affect quality of life in any big way. These include arthritis, susceptibility to...

Lady Di has a new routine. Since she no longer possesses the balance to roost, she is spending nights now inside the garage in a pet crate. In the morning, I go to the garage and greet her by name, and she responds with her croaky voice. I get her out and tube fluids and vitamins into her. Then...

She's not dead yet. She's currently eating some boiled rice with keifer and hulled sunflower seeds. We're holding off planning the funeral just yet.

Lady Di is dying. But not just now. In the mornings, from all appearances, she looks like she's going to take her last breath at any time. Last night, she couldn't stick her perch and kept falling off in spite of her nifty guard rails. So I got the old cat bed out and stuck it in the corner of...

Over night, Lady Di did great on her perch with the guard rails. I think why I was finding her crumpled under the perch so often lately was due to the way she sleeps. She lets her head and neck hang straight down, and the weight of it was throwing her off balance and she would tip over forward...

This should keep her from falling off her perch during the night. It's anchored at the side for stability.

Lady Di has been doing so well the past few days. Yesterday I even declared her fully recovered. Then this morning I found her crumpled up like a discarded sweater under her perch. She was limp as a sweater, and I carried her around to the run and slipped her under the heat lamp. (It's 15F) She...

This morning, how I found Lady Di stuck behind her low perch in the coop was funny and not funny. Well, certainly not funny to her. Poor old gal is mostly blind, and her wry neck is still sometimes flaring up when she's discombobulated. Especially if a misjudgement when trying to dismount her...

Lady Di has made good progress getting her strength back after her wry neck ordeal. Today, she had an actual appetite and was eating throughout the day. I hope she's drinking, as well. I did catch her shaking water from her beak a couple times out of the corner of my eye. Pearl, the "Forrest...

Lady Di is spending some sunny time in my garage grow window. I gave her a bowl of dead meal worms beetles, live meal worms, dry feed, and a bit of cracked corn to work on. As you can see, she's a very messy eater. But it's great she is trying to eat. This is after she was tubed with more...

I plan to tube fluids several times today and see how that affects her. Torticolis could be aggravated by not only her head tumor but dehydration and weakness. After I tubed fluids, I returned Di to the run and she immediately took a few bites of egg. She's at the very least holding her head...

This morning, only vestigial signs of the torticolis. But Di is weak. She likely didn't eat or drink as much as she should have yesterday. I gave her some scrambled eggs with cottage cheese and grated carrot and a few live meal worms to liven up the food presentation. She consented to eating a...

Color me astonished over Lady Di's recovery. Just a couple days ago, it seemed warning lights were flashing the end of the road for her. The wry neck was as bad as wry neck can get. She was unable to lift her head at all for three days. She was weak from not being able to make her head function...

Good news! Lady Di has recovered from her torticolis, and she's back out in the run. She's eating on her own, and I am hoping drinking, as well. I don't tube feed any longer than is needed as I believe the effortless filling of the crop with food and water removes the natural hunger and thirst...

I have 500mg tumeric gel capsules and have been giving it twice a day, 500mg each dose. This is in addition to E 400iu twice a day.

My dilemma has been that wry neck treatment can produce no improvement for a couple of days. I hate to give up on Lady Di too soon. And it appears I was right to stick with her treatment into a fourth day because she has been in the run for a couple of hours now without reverting to the...

Lady Di, my going-on-fourteen Light Brahma has been struggling with a tumor on her head that appears to be causing extended bouts of wry neck, torticolis. She can't eat and drink on her own when she's like this. She goes to eat and her head involuntarily flips upside down. So, she has been...