Embarrassed by a chicken !!

[Ann N]

Well as I wrote in my new member introduction I'd been a bit worried about one of my chickens isolating herself from the others and just generally not being herself. Well I got home from work yesterday and she was lethargic and just not herself , didn't appear to be eating, ignored the corn I put down for her - really out of character. So I decided a trip to the vets was called for, so off we toddled. At the vets we sat and waited, once called in I explained my concerns, describing my lethargic hen. The vet then went to exam her ......that's when the fun started - she flew of the table, ran round the surgery about five times before the vet and I could catch her. The vet examined her said her crop was full , so had been eating and could find nothing wrong with her at all ....chicken sat there as perky as anything looking round as though I was making it all up !! Since then she's been her usual happy self and I have been left feeling a real plonker ,,.........**** chickens

 

[iwiw60]

For future reference, here's a great page with all the info you need:

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/search?q=crop

 

[Daddas1Punkin]

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! I hate when animals do that! You made my day a little better if that helps at all!

 

[lazy gardener]

Pets do it. Children are experts at it. My 7 y.o. always perks up when I take her to the Dr. Luckily, her signs of illness tell the tale, while her " I love to be at the Dr. mood" would make one without training assume that she was not the least bit sick.

 

[tridentk9]

She wanted her car ride- but did she get her ice cream cone for being good at the docs?

 

[Gumiho]

They can be sneaky, devilish little buggers thats for sure.

I have this one hen, a speckled sussex passed on to me because of her unpleasant nature, that I was planning on selling a few weeks ago. She was mean as spit to other birds (roos included), never went broody, noisy as all get up (noisier than all my roosters combined) and just generally a pita.

So I decided she needed to go to make room for a few new broodies that I was going to pick up that same day at the market.

So I go to get her that morning and she is sitting. I pick her up and she starts fussing and fussing, she'd pecked out her breast feathers and just acted like a typical broody. So I set her back down and she went back to sitting and clucking indignantly. I figured I'd sell her later and slip some eggs under her that evening as a broody is a pro for me.

So... I get home and go to slip an egg under her, and she is not broody. At all. Even laid an egg and was kicking it around her pen. Since then, she has managed to get out and has been very keen not to pick on any other birds unless they have a go at her... And has even quieted significantly. So I guess she realized she'd have to make some concessions unless she'd like to go.

So she hasn't gone broody, but she is now a civil laying member of the flock and actually seems a bit protective of the other hens.

 

[EggSlayer]

Hhaha, glad she is okay!

If she gets sour crop again, don´t hesitate to give me a message, or put up another thread.