@Frazzemrat1 any news on Napoleon? 
Araucana thread anyone?
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There is something wrong with my pretty little Bonita 
Thursday morning when I let them out I noticed she had an injury to her head. It doesn't look like picking from another chicken - it kind of looks like a burn, or a scrape. There is absolutely nothing in the run they could get burned on, so I'm thinking maybe something scared her and she flew into the fence or fence post. I had to work all day that day and did not get to observe her. Friday morning when I opened the chicken door she had a perfectly formed egg under the roost where she was roosting. She didn't come off the roost right away, probably a half hour later and was moving around very lethargic. Though I am 95% sure this injury isn't from any of her flockmates, I decided to go ahead and divide the males from the females since I need to do so for breeding anyway. I divided the coop with netting, so I could access both sides for cleaning. When I opened the door yesterday morning...Buck was in with the females. He obviously squeezed through a small opening along the side. 
Bonita was still acting weird. Like she is eggbound...but not since she laid a perfect egg just before she started acting this way. I took down my division netting, cut a section of hardware cloth for the bottom 2', then took the netting up to the top of the coop. There was an 8" section at the very peak I didn't cover because it angles. I thought, no way they can get through an 8" opening 6' off the floor. WRONG!
I went to lock them up last night and Mama had cleared that 8" opening, so had Lil Girl, and they were roosted with the boys. Bonita was perched on top of the netting. Since I had to get her off the netting I felt her over real good and did not feel any abdominal swelling or anything unusual. I put her on the roost with the others, pulled down the top netting and said "screw it"! (Well I said more than that... I was PISSED!)
This morning Bonita has not yet come off the roost. I saw her drink quite a bit yesterday but eat very little. No abnormal poops. No true illness signs like sneezing or discharge or audible breathing. I was able to separate the males and females this morning by way of the divided run. I still need to figure out a way to divide the coop AGAIN. I just hope little Bonita pulls through. At this point I'm thinking head injury (and she has not laid an egg since the dropping one off the roost Friday night).
Thursday morning when I let them out I noticed she had an injury to her head. It doesn't look like picking from another chicken - it kind of looks like a burn, or a scrape. There is absolutely nothing in the run they could get burned on, so I'm thinking maybe something scared her and she flew into the fence or fence post. I had to work all day that day and did not get to observe her. Friday morning when I opened the chicken door she had a perfectly formed egg under the roost where she was roosting. She didn't come off the roost right away, probably a half hour later and was moving around very lethargic. Though I am 95% sure this injury isn't from any of her flockmates, I decided to go ahead and divide the males from the females since I need to do so for breeding anyway. I divided the coop with netting, so I could access both sides for cleaning. When I opened the door yesterday morning...Buck was in with the females. He obviously squeezed through a small opening along the side. Bonita was still acting weird. Like she is eggbound...but not since she laid a perfect egg just before she started acting this way. I took down my division netting, cut a section of hardware cloth for the bottom 2', then took the netting up to the top of the coop. There was an 8" section at the very peak I didn't cover because it angles. I thought, no way they can get through an 8" opening 6' off the floor. WRONG!
I went to lock them up last night and Mama had cleared that 8" opening, so had Lil Girl, and they were roosted with the boys. Bonita was perched on top of the netting. Since I had to get her off the netting I felt her over real good and did not feel any abdominal swelling or anything unusual. I put her on the roost with the others, pulled down the top netting and said "screw it"! (Well I said more than that... I was PISSED!)
This morning Bonita has not yet come off the roost. I saw her drink quite a bit yesterday but eat very little. No abnormal poops. No true illness signs like sneezing or discharge or audible breathing. I was able to separate the males and females this morning by way of the divided run. I still need to figure out a way to divide the coop AGAIN. I just hope little Bonita pulls through. At this point I'm thinking head injury (and she has not laid an egg since the dropping one off the roost Friday night).
Oh no poor Bonita.There is something wrong with my pretty little Bonita
Bonita was still acting weird. Like she is eggbound...but not since she laid a perfect egg just before she started acting this way. I took down my division netting, cut a section of hardware cloth for the bottom 2', then took the netting up to the top of the coop. There was an 8" section at the very peak I didn't cover because it angles. I thought, no way they can get through an 8" opening 6' off the floor. WRONG!
I went to lock them up last night and Mama had cleared that 8" opening, so had Lil Girl, and they were roosted with the boys. Bonita was perched on top of the netting. Since I had to get her off the netting I felt her over real good and did not feel any abdominal swelling or anything unusual. I put her on the roost with the others, pulled down the top netting and said "screw it"! (Well I said more than that... I was PISSED!)
This morning Bonita has not yet come off the roost. I saw her drink quite a bit yesterday but eat very little. No abnormal poops. No true illness signs like sneezing or discharge or audible breathing. I was able to separate the males and females this morning by way of the divided run. I still need to figure out a way to divide the coop AGAIN. I just hope little Bonita pulls through. At this point I'm thinking head injury (and she has not laid an egg since the dropping one off the roost Friday night).
Can you post a picture of her injury and some full body shots of her? Is she pale? Last week my Frizzle Bantam hen Jane was acting off. She was lethargic and her tail was drooping. Poops were normal. She hasn’t laid in a couple of days. We did have high winds that week although she has weathered colder temps. I brought her inside for 3 days and then put her back outside with the flock. While inside she slept a lot and wasn’t eating very much. A friend said to mix a tea spoon of brown sugar with a cup of water and offer it to her. She didn’t have much interest in the sugar water so I didn’t force her to drink it. I added some of the sugar water into her regular water and she drank that. Jane laid an egg the 3rd evening in my house. Since she has gone back outside she hasn’t laid an egg, but she is back to being herself.
I tried to get pics of her head, but none of them turned out clear enough to see. It's like she is scalped and its in 2 circular patterns. About the size of a dime on the top left of her head. I couldn't tell yesterday if she was standing droopy, since she's rumpless they kind of look like that anyway. She's acting like my Buff Orp did when she was laying internally, but shows no physical signs. I'm glad Jane is doing better. I'm trying to put off bringing her inside because that would be so stressful on her. As long as she isn't getting picked on and it doesn't look like anything contagious I'm going to leave her with her mom and sis.Oh no poor Bonita.
Can you post a picture of her injury and some full body shots of her? Is she pale? Last week my Frizzle Bantam hen Jane was acting off. She was lethargic and her tail was drooping. Poops were normal. She hasn’t laid in a couple of days. We did have high winds that week although she has weathered colder temps. I brought her inside for 3 days and then put her back outside with the flock. While inside she slept a lot and wasn’t eating very much. A friend said to mix a tea spoon of brown sugar with a cup of water and offer it to her. She didn’t have much interest in the sugar water so I didn’t force her to drink it. I added some of the sugar water into her regular water and she drank that. Jane laid an egg the 3rd evening in my house. Since she has gone back outside she hasn’t laid an egg, but she is back to being herself.
Bonita is now in a nest box and does not look good. I don't get how she could be egg bound if she is. That is definitely not an Araucana trait, and she has had free choice oyster shell along with her feed. I even tried giving her a calcium tablet yesterday which she did not want. On the few occasions my Golden Comet was egg bound she gobbled up the calcium without hesitation.
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Yes, I have Nutradrench. I put Hen Booster in their water this morning but she has not eaten or drank anything today.
you must give her water with vitamins and force her to eat. I have a sick marans hen and I give her boiled egg (I force feed her, pieces of egg directly into her mouth and I give her water with vitamins with a syringe). do you have any antibiotics (baytril, oxitetracycline or doxycycline)? watch her wings. in MY experience, tight horizontal wings are a good sign, droopy wings = chickens don't usually make it. with droopy wing antibiotics are a must! I give them human doxycycline, 1/4 of a 100 mg pill for 2,5 kg/body weight. the medicine here in europe is called vibramycin and it does not need a prescription.
Is she gone Broody and the other have attacked her for acting strange? Separate her into a crate and see how she is.
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