Two of my hens were attacked last weekend and have been in the house this past week healing. I had posted for help last weekend, so for those that had followed the previous message...they are doing GREAT! Well, as far the injuries go anyway. I am having a problem with Frenchie losing weight! Initially she wasn't getting enough food because every time she ate near Bandit (the other hen in recovery), Bandit would peck her on the head! She had green poop with lots of water in it. A clear sign she wasn't eating enough. Now I migrated them to an empty guest room and put a casserole dish out with food (I figure if it is big enough she can eat away from Bandit's beak!). Her poop is now a healthy looking, solid one all the time, but it still has a little bit of a dark green shade to it. I tried to feed her a scrambled egg with her feed mixed in, which she likes, but she won't eat all of it. She has chicken ADD. She eats for a few and gets distracted and wanders off!
She pecks around all the time and does eat... I strongly doubt it is a sickness problem. She eats enough that I know she isn't going to starve to death, but she is skinny! I can feel the breast bone when I hold her. She acts normal, is healing great...she just needs to peck Bandit back and eat more! I don't think she has worms (I have even looked at her poop to see if there is any evidence of worms...there wasn't
). She had a really hard molt (she lost nearly ALL of her feather!) and lost some weight then (we attributed it to lack of energy from the molt), but nothing too serious. Her body is healthy enough too heal from the attack, continue growing feathers from the molt, and grown new feathers where many pin feathers were lost in the attack. How an I get weight back on her!
