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Hi guys,

I was gonna post this in the emergency thread but thought I'd hit you up first cuz...well, you are my fraaands! :) And if I already asked I apologize, but it's hard to keep track on here sometimes.

Anyway, my one laying pullet, Big Bird (Silkie, 7 months old) has been laying pretty steadily for exactly a month. if she doesn't produce an egg a day, it's every other day. I switched her and her coopmates over to Purena Layena a couple weeks ago.

I've noticed over the last couple weeks that she looks and feels thin. Acting normal, good appetite, just thin. Good poops. Prominent keelbone, less flesh. So I've been giving her the occasional egg, extra scratch and BOSS.

So the last week or so, she's been staying in the coop and her nest box. If I pick her up and take her out she'll hang out with the other chickens, but she's really been wanting to stay in there, and she makes these soft little clucking sounds. I thought, maybe she is going broody? But she is still laying, her last egg was yesterday, and I thought they don't go broody till after they stop laying.

Any ideas? I'm starting to get worried, as she is one of my very favorite chickens. The rest are acting fine (and not laying). She is the only one who is thin.

Thanks in advance! Love you guys!
 
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Suzi18 said:
Majority of the hurricane damage has been cleaned up although there was quite a bit of construction going on. Some of the shop owners told me they were closed for about 9 weeks.But....of course the bars were opened up in about 3 weeks. Priorities priorities.......
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Hahahaha, in KW the bars *are* the priority!!! Gotta love that wonderful, magical place. If I ever ht the lottery that's where I'm headed...what a place to be a crazy chicken lady! sigh
 
pitbullmomma said:
Hi guys,

I was gonna post this in the emergency thread but thought I'd hit you up first cuz...well, you are my fraaands! :) And if I already asked I apologize, but it's hard to keep track on here sometimes.

Anyway, my one laying pullet, Big Bird (Silkie, 7 months old) has been laying pretty steadily for exactly a month. if she doesn't produce an egg a day, it's every other day. I switched her coopmates over to Purena Layena a couple weeks ago.

I've noticed over the last couple weeks that she looks and feels thin. Acting normal, good appetite, just thin. Good poops. Prominent keelbone, less flesh. So I've been giving her the occasional egg, extra scratch and BOSS.

So the last week or so, she's been staying in the coop an her nest box. If I pick her up and take her out she'll hang out with the other chickens, but she's really been wanting to stay in there, and she makes these soft little clucking sounds. I thought, maybe she is going broody? But she is still laying, her last egg was yesterday, and I thought they don't go broody till after they stop laying.

Any ideas? I'm starting to get worried, as she is one of my very favorite chickens. The rest are acting fine (and not laying). She is the only one who is thin.

Thanks in advance! Love you guys!
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Usually chickens will lay to gather a clutch of eggs to hatch, so that's why she could still be laying.
 
pitbullmomma said:
Hi guys,

I was gonna post this in the emergency thread but thought I'd hit you up first cuz...well, you are my fraaands! :) And if I already asked I apologize, but it's hard to keep track on here sometimes.

Anyway, my one laying pullet, Big Bird (Silkie, 7 months old) has been laying pretty steadily for exactly a month. if she doesn't produce an egg a day, it's every other day. I switched her coopmates over to Purena Layena a couple weeks ago.

I've noticed over the last couple weeks that she looks and feels thin. Acting normal, good appetite, just thin. Good poops. Prominent keelbone, less flesh. So I've been giving her the occasional egg, extra scratch and BOSS.

So the last week or so, she's been staying in the coop an her nest box. If I pick her up and take her out she'll hang out with the other chickens, but she's really been wanting to stay in there, and she makes these soft little clucking sounds. I thought, maybe she is going broody? But she is still laying, her last egg was yesterday, and I thought they don't go broody till after they stop laying.

Any ideas? I'm starting to get worried, as she is one of my very favorite chickens. The rest are acting fine (and not laying). She is the only one who is thin.

Thanks in advance! Love you guys!
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When was the last time you dewormed them? Is her comb red?
 
Smuvers Farm said:
Usually chickens will lay to gather a clutch of eggs to hatch, so that's why she could still be laying.
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CapricornFarm said:
When was the last time you dewormed them? Is her comb red?
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I've never dewormed them. I look at their poops frequently though, and they are all good. Her comb is that funky little blackish Silkie peacomb, so can't go by that...
 
pitbullmomma said:
Hi guys,

I was gonna post this in the emergency thread but thought I'd hit you up first cuz...well, you are my fraaands! :) And if I already asked I apologize, but it's hard to keep track on here sometimes.

Anyway, my one laying pullet, Big Bird (Silkie, 7 months old) has been laying pretty steadily for exactly a month. if she doesn't produce an egg a day, it's every other day. I switched her coopmates over to Purena Layena a couple weeks ago.

I've noticed over the last couple weeks that she looks and feels thin. Acting normal, good appetite, just thin. Good poops. Prominent keelbone, less flesh. So I've been giving her the occasional egg, extra scratch and BOSS.

So the last week or so, she's been staying in the coop an her nest box. If I pick her up and take her out she'll hang out with the other chickens, but she's really been wanting to stay in there, and she makes these soft little clucking sounds. I thought, maybe she is going broody? But she is still laying, her last egg was yesterday, and I thought they don't go broody till after they stop laying.

Any ideas? I'm starting to get worried, as she is one of my very favorite chickens. The rest are acting fine (and not laying). She is the only one who is thin.

Thanks in advance! Love you guys!
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What Cap said? I'd drop the scratch and BOSS for now and offer her some grower if you have it, if not then some canned pink salmon along with boiled/scrambled egg. Scratch is good for building fat. BOSS is loaded with vitamin E, but without sufficient selenium it won't be absorbed. Salmon is loaded with vitamins and protein, and the egg has perfect balance of amino acids.
 
rjohns39 said:
What Cap said? I'd drop the scratch and BOSS for now and offer her some grower if you have it, if not then some canned pink salmon along with boiled/scrambled egg. Scratch is good for building fat. BOSS is loaded with vitamin E, but without sufficient selenium it won't be absorbed. Salmon is loaded with vitamins and protein, and the egg has perfect balance of amino acids.
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Awesome, thanks! I was already thinking the stanky canned salmon, lol. How much should I give, and how often?
 

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