Well, from the hen's face, I'd think she's got something wrong with her, it's how pale she is, the droopy eyelids, and her upward-tilted stance with head tucked into shoulders. What exactly that wrong thing is I don't really know, only that I've always been in for a long haul when a hen looks like that, or worse. Sorry I don't have any actual answers for you. I don't have that type of hen anymore, she's the sort I weeded out due to over-frequent deaths to leucosis.
When mine looked suss like that or worse I'd usually attack with a broad spectrum of hopeful treatments for various potential causes, and sometimes it worked, leaving me none the wiser as to what the problem was or what I did right --- other times it didn't work, likewise leaving me none the wiser either which a way. lol... Sometimes I'd do it all-in-one, like mix olive oil with charcoal powder with honey with the 'anti-plague' herbs (natural antibiotics that don't also kill good bacteria) and garlic, and just dose them all if I suspected illness. Surprisingly effective, in retrospect I managed to kill a few diseases in their tracks with that one, LOL!
I would usually do something along the lines of: fast, flush, detox, restore, an old time-tested formula. So stop intake for a day, if you feel a fast might help, since when a body fasts the energy goes from digesting to repairing, and continuing to eat can kill; flush potential blocks or unhealthy overloads out with cold pressed extra virgin olive oil because that type of olive oil won't clog her up and gives her instant vitamin e, and give stuff like charcoal to pull out toxins, and honey to restore the nervous system, and sometimes if the chook was keen, other random stuff like raw cow's milk, yoghurt, whatever doesn't have white sugar in it to avoid feeding any infection or virus, raw apple/carrot (stops diarrhoea and apple provides good enzymes to get guts working again), and raw potato is a great one, it can support a creature's life indefinitely with a severely damaged liver. As a rule for healthy chooks I've found no way around the necessities of raw garlic and kelp. Nothing seems beat them at their job. Rue's supposed to be awesome, but I can't get it to grow...
If the liver's just compromised as so many problems do, the raw potato can support and detox and cleanse it, as well as being good for alkalinizing and enzymes. What a chook wants will often provide a good picture of what the problem's taken from its body in the first place so sort of suggest a vague idea of what might be wrong... Lots of calcium desired, usually = poisoning/pain/bone injury, for.example, whereas a sour gut might make a chook pick more fresh raw foods, or a liver damaging disease might make it avoid cereal grains and heavy proteins. Still a lot of guesswork. I don't know what's wrong with your chook but best wishes and I hope she is ok.
When mine looked suss like that or worse I'd usually attack with a broad spectrum of hopeful treatments for various potential causes, and sometimes it worked, leaving me none the wiser as to what the problem was or what I did right --- other times it didn't work, likewise leaving me none the wiser either which a way. lol... Sometimes I'd do it all-in-one, like mix olive oil with charcoal powder with honey with the 'anti-plague' herbs (natural antibiotics that don't also kill good bacteria) and garlic, and just dose them all if I suspected illness. Surprisingly effective, in retrospect I managed to kill a few diseases in their tracks with that one, LOL!
I would usually do something along the lines of: fast, flush, detox, restore, an old time-tested formula. So stop intake for a day, if you feel a fast might help, since when a body fasts the energy goes from digesting to repairing, and continuing to eat can kill; flush potential blocks or unhealthy overloads out with cold pressed extra virgin olive oil because that type of olive oil won't clog her up and gives her instant vitamin e, and give stuff like charcoal to pull out toxins, and honey to restore the nervous system, and sometimes if the chook was keen, other random stuff like raw cow's milk, yoghurt, whatever doesn't have white sugar in it to avoid feeding any infection or virus, raw apple/carrot (stops diarrhoea and apple provides good enzymes to get guts working again), and raw potato is a great one, it can support a creature's life indefinitely with a severely damaged liver. As a rule for healthy chooks I've found no way around the necessities of raw garlic and kelp. Nothing seems beat them at their job. Rue's supposed to be awesome, but I can't get it to grow...
If the liver's just compromised as so many problems do, the raw potato can support and detox and cleanse it, as well as being good for alkalinizing and enzymes. What a chook wants will often provide a good picture of what the problem's taken from its body in the first place so sort of suggest a vague idea of what might be wrong... Lots of calcium desired, usually = poisoning/pain/bone injury, for.example, whereas a sour gut might make a chook pick more fresh raw foods, or a liver damaging disease might make it avoid cereal grains and heavy proteins. Still a lot of guesswork. I don't know what's wrong with your chook but best wishes and I hope she is ok.
Most of them I have, but that still leaves a lot of room for 'what's that?' Learning.
