Crystal is a leghorn pullet, about 22 weeks old
I found her today in the run, standing in a corner by herself, tail drooping, eyes opening and closing, head acting like she wanted to sleep. Her comb and wattle are bright red. SHe walks real slow.. a few steps at a time.
She just started laying eggs this week and one of my girls did not lay yesterday.. maybe it was Crystal. I only got one leghorn egg again today.
They eat layer pellets and scratch grain. I treat them to pieces of bread and yesterday a few red raspberries.
Her crop is mushy I guess... not sure what they feel like normally. But I don't think that she was lethargic this am.
So I think she may have eaten some scratch grain this morning.
She has not eaten since I found her, but had drank. When I picked her up... she fought and screamed, she did spit up some water, but they may have been due to the fact that she was drinking water for half an hour or so; on and off.
I have no clue if she has pooped. She has not pooped in the hour that i have been watching her though.
SO far I have given her a 30 minute warm soak. Now she is wrapped in a towel, sitting in my lap, doing nothing... lethargic. This bird is usually flighty. So she is totally not herself!
I'd prefer to not go to a vet.
Their bedding is wood shavings.
What did I leave out?
I found her today in the run, standing in a corner by herself, tail drooping, eyes opening and closing, head acting like she wanted to sleep. Her comb and wattle are bright red. SHe walks real slow.. a few steps at a time.
She just started laying eggs this week and one of my girls did not lay yesterday.. maybe it was Crystal. I only got one leghorn egg again today.
They eat layer pellets and scratch grain. I treat them to pieces of bread and yesterday a few red raspberries.
Her crop is mushy I guess... not sure what they feel like normally. But I don't think that she was lethargic this am.
So I think she may have eaten some scratch grain this morning.
She has not eaten since I found her, but had drank. When I picked her up... she fought and screamed, she did spit up some water, but they may have been due to the fact that she was drinking water for half an hour or so; on and off.
I have no clue if she has pooped. She has not pooped in the hour that i have been watching her though.
SO far I have given her a 30 minute warm soak. Now she is wrapped in a towel, sitting in my lap, doing nothing... lethargic. This bird is usually flighty. So she is totally not herself!
I'd prefer to not go to a vet.
Their bedding is wood shavings.
What did I leave out?
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