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Yeah, I am sorry to hear that. I have terrible luck with sick birds coming back. They are very stoic and don't let you know early enough in the game to save them. Injuries I have been having better luck with. Keeping the flies away is the biggest part. Quiet, dry the whole bit and most perk back up. When you only have two it can be hard to have to let one go so don't think I was giving you a hard time about your efforts to save her.
I have a pair of chickens, really useless chickens, that have lived out back for a couple years. A Polish bantam rooster and a buff Brahma large fowl hen. Absolutely inseparable, these two. The hen went down a couple of weeks ago and will not walk far. My "usual" advice notwithstanding, I did not cull her instantly out of respect for her little Polish friend who would guard her day and night. She walked to food and water and then back in the shed to collapse in the corner every day. No discharge or other signs of illness. I determined to get a polish hen at the show this past weekend and do away with the brahma when I got home. I found the perfect hen at the show and bought her. My youngest daughter called me a couple hours later and told me the brahma did not come out that morning to eat and was found dead in the corner. Still watched by her rooster.
He doesn't much care for the new hen but he will. So I understand your efforts to save your bird.
Take care.
Yeah, I am sorry to hear that. I have terrible luck with sick birds coming back. They are very stoic and don't let you know early enough in the game to save them. Injuries I have been having better luck with. Keeping the flies away is the biggest part. Quiet, dry the whole bit and most perk back up. When you only have two it can be hard to have to let one go so don't think I was giving you a hard time about your efforts to save her.
I have a pair of chickens, really useless chickens, that have lived out back for a couple years. A Polish bantam rooster and a buff Brahma large fowl hen. Absolutely inseparable, these two. The hen went down a couple of weeks ago and will not walk far. My "usual" advice notwithstanding, I did not cull her instantly out of respect for her little Polish friend who would guard her day and night. She walked to food and water and then back in the shed to collapse in the corner every day. No discharge or other signs of illness. I determined to get a polish hen at the show this past weekend and do away with the brahma when I got home. I found the perfect hen at the show and bought her. My youngest daughter called me a couple hours later and told me the brahma did not come out that morning to eat and was found dead in the corner. Still watched by her rooster.
He doesn't much care for the new hen but he will. So I understand your efforts to save your bird.
Take care.
