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I have a ex-battery white leghorn hen about 4,5 years old. She has a foot that never healed properly while at her former 'home' so she cant curl her toes and therefore walks with a limp. She had bumblefoot a couple times because of it.
Till a month ago she layed eggs almost every day, just not while molting. Then 1 day she layed a softshelled egg... And afterwarts she was miserable... Slept a lot, diarea, not eating much... Because she was dirty I gave her a bath, and some aspirine. I did that for 2 days and she slowely recovered, began laying after 5 days... But softshelled eggs, so I gave her calcium, vit. D and in this tablet were also vit.K and folic acid. She began laying normal eggs again... Normally she is very serious about her calcium, every day she searches at the same time for it, in eggsshells or oistershell, even snailshells, when she doesn't find it she asks for it... But not after this... So I kept giving calcium, after a while she began to search for it again, and she didn't want to eat the yoghurt I gave her the calcium in... She would eat it if it was just the yoghurt... It's the pro-biotic kind, so I give it to her, happy that she still wants it .
Everything went back to normal... She layed her egg almost every day.... Till Sunday.. And since Monday it's the same, no eggs, diarea, very pikky about what she eats, eating very little, but also and this is new she sleeps a lot, she is very allert, cleans herself, but she just sits, sleeps, when I see her like that I think she's dying and then in the evening she gets up, drinks, eats a little... Takes a sandbath and goes to bed.... She walk like she always does then, but not so far (still about 600 feet a day from the coop to where she wants to sit in the shade, it's summer and this week about 80/82 degrees)
Also every day around the hottest hours she sits back on her hocks/butt, but just for a few minutes.... But it concerns me.. I checked her over, no external parasites, don't know about worms, There's no vett here.... and no antibiotics, even a dewormer is a problem... so I try to keep it under control with garlic in the yoghurt ( a teaspoon of yoghurt with fresh garlic every day ) and I clean the run amd coop every day... her body feels normal, no swelling no stuck egg... like it always did, and she is a lapp-chicken so I check her every day... They eat a layerfeed, its whole grains but together it's al chickens need, so every week or so I grind the feed so they eat all of it... I think it's low in protein(11%), so we give a teaspoon of catfood- and sometimes some meat when we eat it... And they freerange every day, all day... So every bug or plant they want they can eat... She is very good at knowing what she can't eat...
Any idea what's wrong with her ?
Till a month ago she layed eggs almost every day, just not while molting. Then 1 day she layed a softshelled egg... And afterwarts she was miserable... Slept a lot, diarea, not eating much... Because she was dirty I gave her a bath, and some aspirine. I did that for 2 days and she slowely recovered, began laying after 5 days... But softshelled eggs, so I gave her calcium, vit. D and in this tablet were also vit.K and folic acid. She began laying normal eggs again... Normally she is very serious about her calcium, every day she searches at the same time for it, in eggsshells or oistershell, even snailshells, when she doesn't find it she asks for it... But not after this... So I kept giving calcium, after a while she began to search for it again, and she didn't want to eat the yoghurt I gave her the calcium in... She would eat it if it was just the yoghurt... It's the pro-biotic kind, so I give it to her, happy that she still wants it .
Everything went back to normal... She layed her egg almost every day.... Till Sunday.. And since Monday it's the same, no eggs, diarea, very pikky about what she eats, eating very little, but also and this is new she sleeps a lot, she is very allert, cleans herself, but she just sits, sleeps, when I see her like that I think she's dying and then in the evening she gets up, drinks, eats a little... Takes a sandbath and goes to bed.... She walk like she always does then, but not so far (still about 600 feet a day from the coop to where she wants to sit in the shade, it's summer and this week about 80/82 degrees)
Also every day around the hottest hours she sits back on her hocks/butt, but just for a few minutes.... But it concerns me.. I checked her over, no external parasites, don't know about worms, There's no vett here.... and no antibiotics, even a dewormer is a problem... so I try to keep it under control with garlic in the yoghurt ( a teaspoon of yoghurt with fresh garlic every day ) and I clean the run amd coop every day... her body feels normal, no swelling no stuck egg... like it always did, and she is a lapp-chicken so I check her every day... They eat a layerfeed, its whole grains but together it's al chickens need, so every week or so I grind the feed so they eat all of it... I think it's low in protein(11%), so we give a teaspoon of catfood- and sometimes some meat when we eat it... And they freerange every day, all day... So every bug or plant they want they can eat... She is very good at knowing what she can't eat...
Any idea what's wrong with her ?