Help! HEN LOSING WEIGHT-DARK GREEN FECES-MOANING AND GROANING!

[CallyB57]

You might be able to get Spirulina at a drug store. It goes a long way, but it's not too cheap. I paid $15 for a jar about 5" high and about 3" in diameter. I can not taste it at all, and I have started putting about 1/4 tsp on my fried eggs and toast, or in a biscuit with butter. It has a rather odd odor, but truly I can not taste it at all. The only difference I have noted so far is that my hands, which have arthritis, do not hurt nearly as badly and I can almost close my hand into a fist, which I have not been able to do in a long time. My little poodle doesn't mind it at all, either - I put it on top of his turkey and rice meatball at night.

 

[jerseygirl1]

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Now I'm sold on it

 

[CallyB57]

I'm happy to say that Jetta continues to improve. She is eating well enough during the daytime when I am at work. At night, I make her a wet mash with the spirulina, some milled flax, some untoasted wheat germ, few drops of olive oil, and mix a few tiny pieces of calcium up with it. She eats about 1/2 cup of that all by herself...she knows I'm watching and if she doesn't eat it, she gets the dropper...so she knows she has to eat it. Her poo is normal, she is preening, standing up for 15 - 20 seconds at a time, though shakily. I think she is still just weak due to she lost so much weight. No sign of an egg..liquid, solid, tell-tale color or anything. No egg. She growls sometimes when she wants something - she's spoiled, but I think she deserves it. I fixed her a little place against my board fence - it's about 5' x 3' and she scratched a big spot and rolled in the dirt and pecked at the remaining grass clippings. She loves it outside. I put her out when the temp is above 50 and sunny- and watch her closely. I am still not sure that she will make a full recovery, but she is so much better that I'm going to just keep at it until she stops making progress. It's been a hard haul and now with 8 eggs in the incubator, things are getting stretched, but we'll all make it. I let Jetta see the eggs in the incubator and her head bobbed up and down and she stared at them. I think she's interested, but of course, not knowing for sure what is wrong with her, she can't have exposure to the babies - they will be in another room. I hope this is the end of this story about Jetta and that she is going to be able to go back to her old self and lay another egg one day. Thanks for all the advice and support!