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

[PandoraTaylor]

so sorry she is ill again.

 

[M To The Maxx]

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[thndrdancr]

There is a bit of hope, Cyn.

Remember me writing you in despair over my Red, well she must have went thru a female chicken menopause and I HOPE its permanent, as she has the same reproductive issues as some of yours have had. I thought she might have laid an egg back in the fall, so I began to worry again for her.

The move out the the farm has helped her tremendously, she really loves it and loves life out here. I have no doubt had we stayed in town, I would have lost her. She still has issues with that egg laying but she is my first girl and has a home for life, I would rather never get another egg from her. She and Lily are my only girls that are outside that really love me and will pull on my pantleg just to get attention and some lovin.

Red is a bit younger but not by much than Ivy, so here is hoping your Ivy does a complete healup.

 

[ozark hen]

Oh, Cyn, what can I say??? I am so sorry and will keep you in my prayers. Thndrdncr-I am so glad your hen is happy and doing well.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

I am sorry about Ivy Cynthia. If anyone can fix her up, it's you.

 

[hen-thusiast]

I hope Ivy gets better.

Sorry to hear you are all going through this yet again.

 

[speckledhen]

Many don't know this but thndrdancr's Lily is actually Dutch and Zane's sister! She was out of the first batch of eggs I ever shipped to someone. Glad you still have her, Jill! She was quite the character as she was growing up.

 

[usschicago1]

This is really Really Strange how it keeps happening. Have you ever considered changing ivysdiet? Maybe something Thats not corn based. Good luck

 

[thndrdancr]

You know that reminds me..

When I took Dash into the vet this last sumer, he told me she was severely dehydrated and malnutrioned. He asked what I fed her. I replied that it was normal chicken or game bird feed in the feed store, plus some scratch now and then and oyster shell. Plus scraps, etc.

He told me some chickens, most he felt, need a lot more nutritious food than what is being put in the feed bags anymore. He really didnt have any answers other than go and get some super nutritious canary food. I cant afford to do that with all my chickens tho, but I must admit, Dash looks like a whole new chicken and I came so close to losing her due to egg issues to begin with, that it isnt funny.

Had to eye dropper water and antibiotics in her ever two hours or more if I could.

 

[speckledhen]

It's not diet, it's genetic/hormonal. I feed commercial layer feed just like most everyone does, plus they get extra supplements once or twice a week. And usually, they get to freerange a couple times a week. I've lost 3 SLWs, 1 GLW, 2 RIRs and almost lost Ivy three times and Ginger once. Currently, I have Olivia a non-hatchery crossbreed hen, suffering from the same thing, but every one other than Olivia has been a hatchery girl. My breeder types and ones hatched here, with the exception of Olivia, have never gotten this ailment.

I know I've said it before, but chicken hens are the only animal that gets spontaneous ovarian cancers like humans; in fact, to learn about ovarian cancer in women, they study hens. So, it seems almost inevitable for many of them, that they will die from some sort of ovarian/reproductive problem.