So here's the run down. I noticed my little brahma-mama acting odd yesterday evening. She's just kind of wandering around, uninterested in greens/mealworms and not seeming to eat or drink much at all. Normally she's spunky and follows the dog all around the perimeter of the chicken run.
I lost a hen last fall to seemingly lethargic symptoms, only she was much worse. She would stand in one spot, with her wings drooped and not even flinch when I walked up to her and picked her up. She also threw up a little when I held her. By the time I got on here to research and went back out to separate her, she had passed. I never did find out if it was a sour crop issue or possibility of egg binding.
Anyway, I don't want to lose another girl. Brahma was acting the same way this morning, so when I get home from work I'm going to isolate her and provide her scrambled eggs, vitamin/electrolyte water, and some mushy feed. I'll also check her crop and check for a bound egg.
Anything else I can do? I'm not really comfortable with syringe or tube feeding. I really don't want to lose her, as we nursed her back to health after she got a big hole pecked in her head during integration. She's been such a fun girl to watch ever since, and has such personality.
I lost a hen last fall to seemingly lethargic symptoms, only she was much worse. She would stand in one spot, with her wings drooped and not even flinch when I walked up to her and picked her up. She also threw up a little when I held her. By the time I got on here to research and went back out to separate her, she had passed. I never did find out if it was a sour crop issue or possibility of egg binding.
Anyway, I don't want to lose another girl. Brahma was acting the same way this morning, so when I get home from work I'm going to isolate her and provide her scrambled eggs, vitamin/electrolyte water, and some mushy feed. I'll also check her crop and check for a bound egg.
Anything else I can do? I'm not really comfortable with syringe or tube feeding. I really don't want to lose her, as we nursed her back to health after she got a big hole pecked in her head during integration. She's been such a fun girl to watch ever since, and has such personality.
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