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Jennylynn530
In the Brooder
- Jul 15, 2022
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Ok thank you- I got her to get the sugar in her and scrambled eggs she ate well from my hand. She sorta pecks at the air like she’s eating but there’s no food- so I started just putting my hand with food where she’s pecking and she would eat. Her eyes are half shut. She is walking around a little then falling back asleep. I put water in her food and also got her to eat some of that- she eats the corn free soy free pellets and grains normally, I gave her yogurt with fruit and added honey she ate a tiny bit of that. She does groom herself a bit. Poor thing I was not home mon- Fri last week but my husband was watching the hens for me. He did say he didn’t think she was eating much.Her eyes are closed because she's weak. Starvation reaches a stage where the hen is too weak to eat. They will not eat on their own.
Starvation may not be what's wrong with this hen. By trying to treat starvation with sugar water and special foods, we can rule it out as a cause if there is no improvement. Then we look at other possible causes and try treating those.