Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[animallover505]

One of my girls just died. The friendliest.She was only a year old and we don't know what happened.

 

[Chickroo]

I am so sorry to hear that. It's so easy to become attached. You have the support of the chick community! Hang in...

 

[animallover505]

She was the only one that would put up with whatever I got in my mind to do. I miss her already, she would sit on my shoulder when I was working in the garden.

 

[BullChick]

Really really sorry! I can imagine the pain.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

I can definetley know exactly what you are experiencing, as I'm short on my head count tonight. I don't have a run for close to 100 chickens so i must come up with a new plan of attack...if only they wouldn't,t roam so far into the woods...but there is a plan formulating in the back of my mind...
I wonder if i could make up a rhyme...don't know bout that but my prettiest rooster is gone. As for the photos, I have been annoying admin all week, finally got on their nerves...snicker...they say they will resolve it..someday. I'd like to show off my brats.

 

[okallthis4eggs]

One of my girls just died. The friendliest.She was only a year old and we don't know what happened.

Sorry to hear that. I was lucky.

 

[okallthis4eggs]

I was working in the yard Sunday when I noticed one of my hens a Golden Comet with her head down near the ground and her eyes closed like she was about to take her last breath. So I went on about my business after saying to her "Your not getting anymore treats you have had enough today". I figured when I returned a little later that three or four of them would be doing the dying chicken act. I go thru this all the time. Treats snap them right out of it. Then I remembered that I had only got three brown eggs Sunday morning and I always get four. Went back to the run and she was still in the same spot so I got concerned. Roger convinced me that she really was sick because she (Roger) was trying to pull her comb off the top of her head and she wasn't doing anything about it. Guess Roger figured she wasn't going to need it the way things were going. So I studied her a few minutes and headed for the BYC site to get information. My first search was "Egg Bound" but that was a guess because I was missing a brown egg from the morning. Symptoms seem to match with most popular solution being to give them a warm bath to loosen things up. Others explained you can sometimes see the egg or feel it. I returned to the run with a bucket of warm water to do my first chicken bath. Roger thought everybody was getting a bath and jumped in my lap so she could be first. Setting Roger aside I thought I would first take a look at the vent area of the sick chick. Picked her up backwards so her head was behind me and her tail was in front of me. I moved her tail up to expose the vent area and Roger pecked her hard right on her......vent area. I could have killed Roger at that point. I couldn't see any egg or anything I considered out of the ordinary so I held her for a few minutes rubbing her underside gently and feeling to see if I could feel anything. Roger returned determined to get her neck broken. So I sat the sick chick down and grabbed Roger and locked Roger in the coop where she began her best peacock scream. Wondering now who was going to die first Roger from me killing her, or the sick chick I focused my attention on the sick chick. She was standing now with her tail high in the air and she lowered her tail down then back up and out came a soft shell egg right on the dirt in the run. It kinda bounced like a water ballon. WOW.....Mission Accomplished. And Roger lived thru it too. By the end of the day she seemed back to normal. Roger took all the credit and i'm not sure Roger didn't deserve it. So everybody got treats before bedtime and Roger got promoted to "Proctologist" status. All good so far with four brown eggs found today.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Roger the Proctologist!

Maybe OBGyn too!

 

[okallthis4eggs]

On This Day A Special Thanks To Roger.......Going above and beyond to help others.....I couldn't have done it. Thanks Roger

SEVEN

SEVEN....Today We Laid SEVEN

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Hooray for roger! .....sort of.