This isn't an emergency. But I would like some insight, and advice.
I have a legbar, who is 1.5 yo.
As a chick she had pasty butt when purchased. A week later was treated for cocidosis, and then a vitamin deficiency. (She was completely immobile prior to treatment.)
She is now, the size of a 6 to 8 week old standard pullet. Weighing less than 2lbs.
She looks healthy, with a red crest and wattles.
She acts healthy and happy. She eats, drinks, and has healthy poops.
She has never laid an egg. I am certain of this.
I have recently moved her to her own coop and run, within the big run. The hens she was raised with run over her, and occasionally bully her. (This isn't a sudden thing, related to illness.)
I have some bantams growing up, and she will be housed with them.
My questions are:
Is she for certain, laying internally?
Or, is it possible that her hormones, or lack of, are such that she will never lay an internal or external egg?
If she is laying internally, what signs would I notice, and at what point would her quality of life suffer?
I have a legbar, who is 1.5 yo.
As a chick she had pasty butt when purchased. A week later was treated for cocidosis, and then a vitamin deficiency. (She was completely immobile prior to treatment.)
She is now, the size of a 6 to 8 week old standard pullet. Weighing less than 2lbs.
She looks healthy, with a red crest and wattles.
She acts healthy and happy. She eats, drinks, and has healthy poops.
She has never laid an egg. I am certain of this.
I have recently moved her to her own coop and run, within the big run. The hens she was raised with run over her, and occasionally bully her. (This isn't a sudden thing, related to illness.)
I have some bantams growing up, and she will be housed with them.
My questions are:
Is she for certain, laying internally?
Or, is it possible that her hormones, or lack of, are such that she will never lay an internal or external egg?
If she is laying internally, what signs would I notice, and at what point would her quality of life suffer?
