How often do your chickens die? Aka - am I just unlucky?

[Kenya Mwangi]

Speaking of bad luck... I started this thread when we had to take Penelope to the vet after a sudden severe decline. I am not sure I said, but in the x-rays we could see that she had a broken egg quite far inside her uterus - long story but she has a severe infection which impacted her reproductive system, which led to the broken egg (not the other way around, with the egg causing infection).

Anyways, Penny was a fighter and survived and got strong enough for the vet to try to remove the broken pieces of shell - only to find that they have fused with the mucous membrane of her uterus and cannot be removed without open surgery.

Bad luck

On another note, we consulted with the vet about food and she gave us a bunch of great tips on how to add additional protein and get the ladies to exercise more. Looks like we have a lot of sprouted lentils in our future.

Hello I'm sad for Penny. Good for great tips on protein and exercise though.

 

[Squawkers]

I lost five chickens within the course of a year (along with six 18 day old developing eggs when the mom died) it was horrible