Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fluffycrow]

Sad news about Fret. Hopefully with your care and her resilience, she can bounce back

 

[thistlewick]

I am going to be thinking about Fret and sending her good healing energy and she absolutely *is* under the best care possible

 

[MrsNorthie]

There are differences between the Bracket and Fret in this condition. Bracket from what I recall ate and drank as usual while Fret doesn't.

Is it possible that the differences in Fret's behaviour is that she is still mourning/pining for Henry or the lack of a male presence? Not necessarily in a psychological way, the way we humans mourn, but in a biological way.

Or could the failure of the broody switch to flip, be the chicken version of menopause (henopause)?

I have seen comments on here where some people put the broody in something where the air flow allows for physical cooling, like a cage off the ground, if physically cooling them works to break broodiness, (this may be totally an old wives tale or just a silly idea..) could maybe taking a ziplock baggy of ice (by the time you got to the field, it should still be cold-ish but not entirely frozen..) and placing that under her while you give her water and rooster booster, help?

No matter what the cause, I hope that it breaks and she resumes eating normally and recovers fully.