California - Northern

[lawatt]

sorry to report that Lucy the CL passed away overnight -- not unexpected, given how crazily thin she'd become, but i'm quite sorry, she was an extra-sweet girl and i will miss her...

 

[chiqita]

I'm so sorry. Are you going to send her in?
S

 

[ronott1]

sorry to report that Lucy the CL passed away overnight -- not unexpected, given how crazily thin she'd become, but i'm quite sorry, she was an extra-sweet girl and i will miss her...

It is always hard to lose one and they always seem to be the favorite one.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Laura, sorry to hear that Lucy didn't pull through. You did what you could but they hide illness so well.

 

[gryeyes]

I lost one overnight, too, totally unexpected. Beth - who had been a house chicken at night for her first 7 months and would have been a year old on Monday. She joined the coop flock by herself but still came inside to lay her egg in the clean laundry basket until a month or so ago.

At coop-up time, I found her in the laundry basket and had a discussion with her about it. (it was nice to see her there, really, 'cause I'm such an idiot and a softy.). She jumped down and just didn't look "right." I picked her up and put her back, patting her. She nestled back down into the basket.

She died during the night. Whatever was wrong with her, she came inside where she felt safe and loved ... And I didn't have to find her dead in the yard or coop.

I think she might have been internally damaged from jumping down off the rafters of the coop, where she had chosen to roost at night for the past few months. Most of the really high roosting birds are smaller chickens; she was the only Barred Rock up that high.

I wish I didn't cry over losing a chicken. How silly.

 

[ronott1]

I lost one overnight, too, totally unexpected. Beth - who had been a house chicken at night for her first 7 months and would have been a year old on Monday. She joined the coop flock by herself but still came inside to lay her egg in the clean laundry basket until a month or so ago.

At coop-up time, I found her in the laundry basket and had a discussion with her about it. (it was nice to see her there, really, 'cause I'm such an idiot and a softy.). She jumped down and just didn't look "right." I picked her up and put her back, patting her. She nestled back down into the basket.

She died during the night. Whatever was wrong with her, she came inside where she felt safe and loved ... And I didn't have to find her dead in the yard or coop.

I think she might have been internally damaged from jumping down off the rafters of the coop, where she had chosen to roost at night for the past few months. Most of the really high roosting birds are smaller chickens; she was the only Barred Rock up that high.

I wish I didn't cry over losing a chicken. How silly.

What a touching story!

It is good that she was in her happy place at the end.

 

[chicksnthestiks]

I've lost 42 lb and my DH has lost 50 lb.  We both feel great eating this way.  All of the health benefits we have been enjoying has made it easy to give up those bad for us foods.  We are at the point where we do cheat a little here and there.  I enjoyed a delicious piece of pink pearl apple pie at the Heirloom Expo this week.  It tasted so good but I could tell that my body did not like the sugar and gluten. I have 17 more lb to lose but this is a lifestyle change for us.  We are in it for the long haul and plan on continuing to eat this way even after we have reached our goal weights.   

Congratulations! I have lost 41 lbs and my mother 26lbs. We are going doing a diet through a doctors office to be held accountable you know. But it has helped to eat small amounts every couple of hours and we both feel so much better. I also rarely use any salt now and no sugar except some splenda but not much.

 

[lawatt]

I'm so sorry. Are you going to send her in?
S

i've got classes and meetings all day today (including one that's not likely to be a pleasant/easy one), and then it's the weekend... so probably not, since i don't think i could send her over the weekend? besides, no one else shows any sign of illness at all, so i'm presuming its some isolated issue, like cancer or etc.

but thanks all for the sympathies! today's going to be a crazy one, but i have the feeling i'll finally "feel" it tonight...

and Linda, my condolences to you as well!!

 

[chicksnthestiks]

sorry to report that Lucy the CL passed away overnight -- not unexpected, given how crazily thin she'd become, but i'm quite sorry, she was an extra-sweet girl and i will miss her...

So sorry you lost Lucy. I would send her in, it would drive me nuts not knowing what it was.

I lost one overnight, too, totally unexpected. Beth - who had been a house chicken at night for her first 7 months and would have been a year old on Monday. She joined the coop flock by herself but still came inside to lay her egg in the clean laundry basket until a month or so ago.

At coop-up time, I found her in the laundry basket and had a discussion with her about it. (it was nice to see her there, really, 'cause I'm such an idiot and a softy.). She jumped down and just didn't look "right." I picked her up and put her back, patting her. She nestled back down into the basket.

She died during the night. Whatever was wrong with her, she came inside where she felt safe and loved ... And I didn't have to find her dead in the yard or coop.

I think she might have been internally damaged from jumping down off the rafters of the coop, where she had chosen to roost at night for the past few months. Most of the really high roosting birds are smaller chickens; she was the only Barred Rock up that high.

I wish I didn't cry over losing a chicken. How silly.

It's not silly at all , You have alot of compassion and how can that be bad?

 

[Wishing4Wings]

So my little bantam brahma girl has decided to go broody.



She started to lay at just under 18 weeks old, and laid 21 eggs in 23 days. But now she has decided to spend all her time in the nestbox on a golf ball. She has lost 190 grams from her peak weight, and 76 grams in the last 10 days, which is about how long it's been since she's laid an egg.

I've been locking her out of the coop the last three days during the day, but when I open the door again to let everyone go to bed, she rushes back to the nestbox. I set up a separate cage off the ground in the house for her, so I guess she is going to move in there for a little while.

Any suggestions or helpful hints?

If you want to break her, a wire bottomed cage, up off the ground works well. The more exposure to sunlight (not direct) will help regulate her hormones more quickly. This advice came from an experienced poultryman, and it worked 3 times this year for my very determined Ameraucana EE from Chickee. Took 3 days each time, but I let her go in the nest box at night because she kept jumping off the roost after dark and finding it herself.


Cage in the shade under the apricot tree. The other girls would come visit and try to help her eat her much needed food. She was so thin. I'd let her out about an hour before sunset for a dust bathing session, and she'd put herself away in the coop for the night. All better now and finally laying eggs for the first time since mid-spring.