I'm losing a hen AND ANOTHER QUESTION!

[wegotchickens]

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I'd be in trouble for the same thing LOL!

My girls were all pale and clearly didn't feel good while they were moulting. I upped the protein in their food and they've perked up quite a bit. So find more crickets!!

Weird thing: my pre-molt girls start to look pale on their feathers, not just their combs. They get a 'sun-bleached' look to them that always hits before they start to lose feathers.

 

[gritsar]

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I just checked on her. Our bedroom is very dark, so I'm using a blue penlight to check on her without disturbing her. She's just laying in the crate, looks to be asleep.
Nobody has laid yet today, but I expected them to lay later this afternoon, because it was about 2 PM when they started laying yesterday. My girls cycle, a little later each day, until they start all over again in the morning.
I really don't feel anything in her abdomen. It's nice and soft.
I'm wondering about something though. They ate a bunch of figs yesterday. I didn't give them any, but they are eating up the ones that fall to the ground. Too many figs can give them diarrhea, so maybe she just got a little dehydrated? I hope that's all it is.

 

[obe10]

if she is eggbound you should take the her and hold her in the warm water for a couple of hrs putting warm water in at times to reheat the water
add 1/2 cup of epsom salts to the warm water
it will cause her to relax

then dry her off and insert a eye dropper of olive oil in each side of the vent
like three times
as this will help the hen drop the egg

then push on the back of the body above the vent to bring down the egg

when you see the egg then take a large darning needle and poke several holes in the shell
then take a needle on a syringe and draw out the egg yolk and white
and then with a large tweezers pull ALL OF THE SHELL OUT

then put more olive oil in the vent

 

[obe10]

i let my chickens eat figs somtimes it is a great treat so i don't think it could be that.

 

[gritsar]

Okay, I just checked on her again and she's still laying in the same place I laid her in the crate.
I'm going to bring up the lights a bit in the room and see if that will encourage her to eat and drink.
If it was just heat stress, what's going to happen to her when I have to put her back outside this evening? I can keep her in till it's time for them to go to roost, but she will have to go out at some point. The days are not going to get any cooler, at least before September.
Oh and the figs? Yes, I know a few are fine. However, I picked more than 50 figs off the tree yesterday and there were at least that many on the ground. Guess where my chickens have been hanging out?

 

[redhen]

Has she drank any of the water? Will she eat anything?

 

[Judy]

I wonder if she ate a spoiled fig. There was a thread on here not long ago about a sick chicken who, as far as anyone could figure out, got sick from eating fruit off the ground, some of which was no longer exactly fresh (might have been cherries, maybe?)

Don't know what you could do about that except maybe some electrolytes in the water -- assuming, of course, you can get her drinking again. You've probably already done that, anyway.

She's survived this long -- maybe she'll pull through for you. Hope so!

 

[gritsar]

Okay, I turned the lights up and she's eating. I haven't seen her drink. Will she know to get water out of the bowl hanging on the side of the crate? All they've ever known is their red bottomed waterers.

 

[redhen]

MAybe splash your finger around in it some, to get her to notice it? or dip her beak in it?

 

[gritsar]

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I'm really wondering about that Dawn. She's eating and her color looks good.
Oh, and DH just called and I fessed up. He said, I hope you know she'll have to stay in there till morning. He says if I take her from the nice cool house and out into the heat of the evening it will be too much of a shock to her system. At least he didn't scream.