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Chirping
- Feb 11, 2021
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Today I noticed our two year old barred rock was acting a little slow, still walking around but kind of lethargic. I picked her up and she seemed thin to me. When I put the ladies to bed this evening I found her in the nest box. I think it’s an odd time of day for her to be laying but I have seen some of our other hens lay kind of late in the afternoon. Then I noticed she has a broken beak (its broken off the top, pretty close to halfway) and I’m wondering if she’s just not eating well because of that? I don’t know how long it’s been broken. Up until yesterday she seemed to be eating fine ... I always lure them into their coop at night with treats and she’s always right there with the others. If her beak has been broken for a while I feel terrible about not noticing it!
But maybe that’s not the problem? It seems weird she’s in the nest box. When she was younger she did have an incident where she was looking really sick, laying down, acting near death and then she laid an egg with a papery shell and was fine. So maybe it’s got nothing to do with the beak and is something else? We tried giving her some wet feed and a treat and she wasn’t interested, though that could be because she’s laying? Not sure what else to do. Advice would be appreciated.
But maybe that’s not the problem? It seems weird she’s in the nest box. When she was younger she did have an incident where she was looking really sick, laying down, acting near death and then she laid an egg with a papery shell and was fine. So maybe it’s got nothing to do with the beak and is something else? We tried giving her some wet feed and a treat and she wasn’t interested, though that could be because she’s laying? Not sure what else to do. Advice would be appreciated.
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