Author Topic: Sick chook  (Read 4457 times)

whitby_sam

  • Joined Feb 2008
Sick chook
« on: June 21, 2010, 02:10:38 pm »
I went out this morning to let my chickens out and spotted one of my Warrens already out. She appears to have the runs and is very slow on her feet. Other than that she's ok. I've separated her and she's eating a little and drinking, her eyes are bright but she's not moved much all day. Any ideas?

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: Sick chook
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2010, 05:43:17 pm »
Poor wee ting dot a tore tummy ::)  If she's eating and drinking, especially drinking, she will probably be fine.
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

whitby_sam

  • Joined Feb 2008
Re: Sick chook
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2010, 07:08:35 pm »
Unfortunately not, she passed away this afternoon. She wasn't THAT bad this morning, just a little off colour. Shame.

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: Sick chook
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2010, 08:41:14 pm »
thats how our warrens go - "Just like that"  poor things, better than suffering for days...
Definitely a shame Sam
Little Blue

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Sick chook
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2010, 09:14:14 pm »
Shame, Sam. I found one dead in the nestbox. She was fine in the morning; when I went to get eggs at lunchtime, she was in the box and I thought "her comb colour's not very good", so I prodded her and she was dead, and ex-hen. It was a real Monty Python moment.

Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: Sick chook
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2010, 09:34:18 pm »

Found one dead on the nest box today no sign of what caused it but she was one of my older birds so perhaps it was just old age!
Anne

Btrobe

  • Joined Jan 2009
Re: Sick chook
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2010, 12:22:26 pm »
Very sad.  We found one of ours that hatched last October. She was unusual as she was small, black and fluffy. She had been missing for a couple of weeks and we wondered if she had escaped and was sitting on eggs just like her two sisters. But my husband found her yesterday. She was his favourite. She seemed fine 2 weeks ago so we wonder if a rat got her or a crow.

chriso

  • Joined Apr 2010
  • Cumbria
Re: Sick chook
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2010, 12:44:06 pm »
Shame, I've got one poorly today, hardly moving about, bright yellow runs and keeps closing its eyes if it does come out. I'm hoping it's just a bit down after getting a soaking for most of the day yesterday.

 

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