My Ivy.. Latest Relapse...She's Gone

[EweSheep]

Good God in Heaven, when will this end???!!!

Just do the best you can, Cyn, and just dont prelong her suffering if you know it is that bad off.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

We will say prayers for you guys!

 

[Mahonri]

Yes we do... here is hoping you can save her again!

 

[scgamecock]

Sorry to hear that Cynthia.Hope she pulls thru again.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Cynthia, 2009 was supposed to be your year of blessing, not more sorrow! I feel so badly for you.

 

[CarriBrown]

I'm sorry, Cyn.

 

[Lunachick]

I remember Ivy's story.....

 

[Serrin]

If I lose all the aforementioned hens, that would mean that I've lost 8 out of 10 of my original hens to the same ailment. And not a darn thing I could do about it, either.

Good heavens woman! Where did you acquire them from? I'd be very leery of ever getting more from them. Sounds like something is going on genetically speaking if this is the common fashion in which your girls pass away.

Or are BR's prone to getting egg bound?

I so hope you can pull her out of this once more. But if you can't, maybe it's all for the best! Poor little Ivy. I sure do hate to see any chicken (or other animals for that matter) suffer in any way!

 

[speckledhen]

I got all ten of the original girls from the same hatchery, but only two of those are BRs, Lexie and Ivy. I've lost 2 SLWs and 2 RIRs. Recently, I lost a GLW hen from the same hatchery, though younger than the others who passed. The first one, a SLW, died just after the originals turned two years old. When the last RIR passed on, Ivy was in the hospital pen with her and just skin and bones. That's when we shot her full of penicillin in desperation and she's been fine till now, even laying perfectly formed eggs with hard shells.

 

[Renee]

Speckledhen, have you noticed a higher mortality rate with the hatchery birds?

I have lost two out of four which seems high for one year. One died of repeated crop problems and the other from prolapse.

I'm wondering if this is a normal mortality rate- yours seems high too. How old were these hens>

Renee