Depressed or Sick Chicken?

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One of our favorite brown leghorn hens has not been acting like herself lately. Usually, she's super excited to be outside and runs back and forth by the door trying to get out, but now she's just standing still and slowly moving. We offered her some treats, but she just stared at it while the other chickens ate it.


She's being really quiet today, too. Could it be that she just got pecked (she did and lost some back feathers) and is depressed, or is she sick?
 
How old is she?
What exactly have you been feeding her each day?
Can you take a video of her and upload it to YouTube?
 
How old is she?
What exactly have you been feeding her each day?
Can you take a video of her and upload it to YouTube?
1 year old
High protein feed, pretty sure it was Kalmbach Feeds 17% Layer Pellets or something like that.
I can take some pictures... I'll try to get a video
 
1 year old
High protein feed, pretty sure it was Kalmbach Feeds 17% Layer Pellets or something like that.
I can take some pictures... I'll try to get a video
You mentioned treats...what kind and how often?
 
You mentioned treats...what kind and how often?
We just had some strawberry tops (not the leaves)

Update though, she seems to be a bit better because she sort of ran to a can that we had grit in... not exactly treats lol
 
You mentioned treats...what kind and how often?
Could she be in shock? This morning we found either fox or racoon poop in our yard... and think we heard the chickens early this morning (very early)
 

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