Hi Wingit, Had another little lizard dinner last night - yay! (I'm becoming a good forager myself since I'm the one finding the lizards, haha). She appears fine, acts normal, is acting like a chicken, scratching, foraging and eating bugs and dead grass/weeds, keeping up with the others, eating some feed -- BUT -- lost her voice, still icky poop, so somewhere something is off. I'm so grateful I didn't cull her the day I was convinced I needed to.
I take it one day at a time and hold my breath every morning while anticipating her emergence from the coop. When the other two are out waiting at the bottom of the ramp looking up at the door doing a sort of whiney chirp and I don't hear any movement or reply from her, I think oh no. Goldie just decides to sleep in about 5 minutes later than they do but they literally wait for her to come out. She was always first one out in the AM and last one in to roost. Now, it seems the Buff Orpington has taken that lead role but the Buff still cowers to Goldie when corrected by her in the yard.
I've done everything everyone here has suggested (Wyorp Rock, Eggcessive, you and others). At this point, I'm at a loss as to what could be wrong but she acts like she feels ok, so I'm just really enjoying her.
