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Here's the video of Katie checking to see if there was any extra salmon.

Katie enjoyed her salad and has enough sass back that she wouldn't let me touch her 😂 🤣 She's been transferred from her big box into a big room. You can just make out her IV tube on the threshold. And here's a close up of her IV dressing. One lonely little piece of salmon had been...

Now I'll be on my way because I must deliver a tiny tasty salad to a very sick little hen 🥰 unfortunately Christa declined a ride in the cat box, so there are no visitors from the flock today.

Wow!! What a great anecdote. We had a very brief word about crop surgery if necessary. But she has to be a lot stronger first. With all the opportunity for chats about Katie, I can ask about it.

The new vet is extremely good at taking care of the human's emotional needs! I'm getting two update phone calls daily. Dr Marika is the vet caring for Katie at present because it's Dr Jing's weekend off. She said Katie is drinking loads and eating with gusto but her digestive system is still on...

I was just reflecting on my experiences with chicken health and veterinary practice. It always goes like this I notice symptoms and make a guess based on reading and an appointment. At the appointment, my guess is proven wrong. This always happens. I thought Katie was egg bound, then I was...

That is not OK! Staggeringly unprofessional.

Oh thank you Grammy. That's very kind. By the way, is Bob's bathroom all finished now?

There was a black area suspected of being a little piece of zinc. And lots of grains of sand and grit lit up in her crop and lower gut when they should be passing through with the poop. It's all causing irritation and gas. But there were no discernable pieces of hardware like screws or nails or...

I've picked out one of her baby photos to share. It's from her quail phase 🥰

It makes sense that if her digestive system was almost in stasis, no wonder she had a pile up of spirochaetes. I assume in a normal digestive system, the bacteria would move on through and out the other end.

Yes, it seems it was ingested. Maybe a little piece of zinc has sat in her crop for a while, inducing statis. It could be the little bumpy thing the vet noticed when I took her in this morning. The vet said almost all suburban homes have little pieces of zinc here and there from when they were...

Yes, a huge relief! And it seems the other hens are not experiencing toxicity, so that's good! But it's something I need to be looking out for now I know it's in their environment.

I'm home again and Katie's in hospital for a few days. She has either zinc or lead toxicity, but the images indicate zinc. She's having chelation therapy for five days with crop feeds, hard food, and IV liquids because her kidneys are not functioning very well. The chelation therapy is...

Yes, just under two hours. Thank you Manue :hugs

That's a great tip, thanks!

They've called to say she's awake and we'll discuss findings when I arrive to collect her at 4.

Thank you RC. Poor little lady.

I've just checked the dates and she's lost 400g in 10 days. That's a lot and fast.

And now I've terrified myself by reading about leukosis in the dvm and realising the symptoms are a perfect fit 😰 Still hoping it's digestive blockage :fl