Jayla Warren
Hatching
- May 12, 2023
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Several years ago I had a hen called Betty that I dearly loved. When she was about 3-4 years old, she began to act strangely. She would make weird motions with her neck and seemed to have a lump right at the base of her neck in the back but there was nothing there. She wouldn’t drink much, and she refused to eat any feed at all, even though she seemed hungry. I researched and was advised to give her yogurt, and to buy her certain vitamins, which I did. However apparently I had waited too long because it didn’t work. She grew lethargic and eventually lost her sense of balance, and then she died. Last winter I bought a new flock of chickens and all were healthy, but recently one hen, again my favourite, has begun to act just like Betty did before she died. She won’t eat or drink, and I began to give her vitamins right away but she is only getting worse. Now she won’t run with the other hens and just stands by herself and sometimes makes weird motions with her neck. She also has the thing that appears to be a lump but when I feel it there isn’t anything. She is getting worse and I’m afraid that soon it will be too late for her too.