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Quote: So sorry for you. Have you been keeping up with this thread? https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=371501&p=1

How is your chicken doing? Don't know if it will help at all, but I got the report back. I had a previous bird die of Lymphoid leukosis, but the symptoms were not the same. In fact, this recent chicken was not wasting away in the least! However, I have another one that is...and I suspect the...

Quote: Could have nothing at all to do with sitting too long, but who knows! Quote: VERY weird

Well that's just odd. I hope you all have a better outcome than I did and I hope the necropsy gives us all some answers. One thing I forgot to mention - after my hen relapsed I gave her bum a look (for mites) and found a sort of sore that was teeming with maggots. Have no idea how or where that...

I was told to put mine down as well and got angry anyone would suggest that. The only thing I worried about was if she'd get trampled when I threw the scratch out to them and if she could make it up to the roost. She never could...just made it to the dropping board below, but she was still okay...

I had a similar situation with about the same age hen. At first I thought the mites had caused it and she was just extremely weak. Now I feel like the mites were not the cause, but the bird was sick with something else and the mites were just opportunistic. Cleaned her up and sprayed for mites...