Dorothy has never been a very healthy girl having been a rescue.
I am pretty sure she is the one that was laying funky shaped eggs one of which a few weeks back was full of blood.
Thing is over here we have not had a good summer. Dorothy usually looks really ill going through the molt and you think she will die but then she makes it through another winter. This year has been very cruel though in that we have had a very cold damp wet summer. Not good for a girl who seems to have some kind of respiritory infection? Today she is out in the yard and she will run about with the others and fight for her food but then she hunches up in a corner and fluffs up. Occationally her head will through up like she wants to crow but she makes an odd gurgle and nothing else comes out. Her comb is starting to go blue. It went very blue this time last year as well and she just pulled right on back through but this year I am not very hopeful for her.
Any suggestions. - She is a run of the mill PR - we have stopped paying Vets bills for these chickens as a consultation is £20 before you get a diognosis and treatment. Here we can buy 3/4 point of lay hens for that amount so sadly it is not cost affective to treat them.
I have contemplated taking her in to the warm away from the other girls - but that seems a rather sad thing to do as if she is going to die it is better she has her friends around her and infact when I lifted her she was quite warm. They all huddle up in a ball so the others keep her warm anyhow.
All I want to do is keep her comfortable and not in pain.
Oes
I am pretty sure she is the one that was laying funky shaped eggs one of which a few weeks back was full of blood.
Thing is over here we have not had a good summer. Dorothy usually looks really ill going through the molt and you think she will die but then she makes it through another winter. This year has been very cruel though in that we have had a very cold damp wet summer. Not good for a girl who seems to have some kind of respiritory infection? Today she is out in the yard and she will run about with the others and fight for her food but then she hunches up in a corner and fluffs up. Occationally her head will through up like she wants to crow but she makes an odd gurgle and nothing else comes out. Her comb is starting to go blue. It went very blue this time last year as well and she just pulled right on back through but this year I am not very hopeful for her.
Any suggestions. - She is a run of the mill PR - we have stopped paying Vets bills for these chickens as a consultation is £20 before you get a diognosis and treatment. Here we can buy 3/4 point of lay hens for that amount so sadly it is not cost affective to treat them.
I have contemplated taking her in to the warm away from the other girls - but that seems a rather sad thing to do as if she is going to die it is better she has her friends around her and infact when I lifted her she was quite warm. They all huddle up in a ball so the others keep her warm anyhow.
All I want to do is keep her comfortable and not in pain.
Oes
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