bonandtam
Chirping
- Jul 23, 2023
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Hi, i have a ISA Brown hen i got in 2021, so right now she would be around 2 years old.
She had just recovered from her second prolapse, thankfully, and seemed healthy from the outside since then. She has been drinking apple cider vinegar water and now switched to Avi-Calcium with D3 in her water since her prolapse. Ever since molt season around July, my other hen went back to normal laying (Australorp still young and healthy), however my ISA Brown has not laid since. I know that the breed usually stops the productivity at around 2 years so i hope that’s why
Ever since she recovered from her prolapse, she more and more got lethargic, one week she first started hanging around in the run, not going outside in the yard. Then eventually staying in the coop, walking outside every now and then. She is drinking water, is less interested in food and greens and usually if i come to pick her up she tries to get away, but now just lets me and usually stands in the same spot i put her down.
She sits in the corner of the coop where they usually lay eggs for about most of her afternoon. Her comb is a more paler colour than usual and droops, and she has a little spot of scabbing on her comb. And i found poop that was yellow.
For her age, i cannot identify if she just portraying old/dying behaviour or the poop indicating that shes sick and i have to keep digging to find out what and how.
Just took this photo to show my mum that where she is laying is unusual and she doesn’t normally sit there, while my Australop is digging in the corner there.
She had just recovered from her second prolapse, thankfully, and seemed healthy from the outside since then. She has been drinking apple cider vinegar water and now switched to Avi-Calcium with D3 in her water since her prolapse. Ever since molt season around July, my other hen went back to normal laying (Australorp still young and healthy), however my ISA Brown has not laid since. I know that the breed usually stops the productivity at around 2 years so i hope that’s why
Ever since she recovered from her prolapse, she more and more got lethargic, one week she first started hanging around in the run, not going outside in the yard. Then eventually staying in the coop, walking outside every now and then. She is drinking water, is less interested in food and greens and usually if i come to pick her up she tries to get away, but now just lets me and usually stands in the same spot i put her down.
She sits in the corner of the coop where they usually lay eggs for about most of her afternoon. Her comb is a more paler colour than usual and droops, and she has a little spot of scabbing on her comb. And i found poop that was yellow.
For her age, i cannot identify if she just portraying old/dying behaviour or the poop indicating that shes sick and i have to keep digging to find out what and how.
Just took this photo to show my mum that where she is laying is unusual and she doesn’t normally sit there, while my Australop is digging in the corner there.
