We brought in one of our ladies a few days ago because she seemed slow and listless. Her comb was dehydrated and she didn't seem to want food or water.
We brought her inside, have been pipetting water in her mouth and letting her swallow and plying her with anything she might eat. She doesn't want water, from a bowl or from normal waterer, she won't eat her feed. She has tried things and kicks around like normal, but the ONLY THINGS she will eat are rocks and the apple that I did not cut up. She was interested a bit in apple i cut for her, but once I mixed it with feed was turned off. She also liked the coconut oil bits I offered. But she only likes things on the ground,not in a container.
Robot's crop is not sour and not impacted, mostly we just can't feel it because she barely eats. Her comb is nice and red, just dry. She was already slowed down in her egg production but its now like 10 days, i think from malnutrition now. She is semi alert, ate some crickets we bought for her and then turned her beak up at any more past that first day.
We did have a cat attack a few weeks before, but were nursing one chicken back from certain death so didn't pay much attention to the rest. I did notice changes when we reintroduced Little when she was healed. And I am wondering if maybe Robot got stressed out even though she was no where near the cat and wasn't hurt? Robot bullied Little and we had to set up additional feeders, do you think she is just mad??
We are at wits end in trying to figure out what to do :'(
We brought her inside, have been pipetting water in her mouth and letting her swallow and plying her with anything she might eat. She doesn't want water, from a bowl or from normal waterer, she won't eat her feed. She has tried things and kicks around like normal, but the ONLY THINGS she will eat are rocks and the apple that I did not cut up. She was interested a bit in apple i cut for her, but once I mixed it with feed was turned off. She also liked the coconut oil bits I offered. But she only likes things on the ground,not in a container.
Robot's crop is not sour and not impacted, mostly we just can't feel it because she barely eats. Her comb is nice and red, just dry. She was already slowed down in her egg production but its now like 10 days, i think from malnutrition now. She is semi alert, ate some crickets we bought for her and then turned her beak up at any more past that first day.
We did have a cat attack a few weeks before, but were nursing one chicken back from certain death so didn't pay much attention to the rest. I did notice changes when we reintroduced Little when she was healed. And I am wondering if maybe Robot got stressed out even though she was no where near the cat and wasn't hurt? Robot bullied Little and we had to set up additional feeders, do you think she is just mad??
We are at wits end in trying to figure out what to do :'(
