Welcome. Your two little girls are very pretty. Your cats are cool. They are just investigating right now. Your chickens were bred to lay a lot of eggs. In the wild, chickens only laid 20 eggs per year. They will lay 10x that many. Constant estrogen and constant inflammation is the...
Hello Iowa. Does anyone know of a chicken rescue in Iowa they would trust? I have a fellow chicken rescue person who needs a place in Iowa for a hen. The hen is a house hen
Welcome. I love the way you think. Thank you for raising hens that have a very low rate for reproductive disorders. I found one place:
https://www.seaweedandsod.ca/farm/
Thank you for the prayers. Please, listen…I have been up and down this emotional roller coaster way too many times. She is still sick. She still needs to not lay anymore eggs to heal. She still needs antibiotics to combat the bacteria in her coelomic space, and her oviduct.
I am sorry I am late to this discussion. My husband was admitted into the hospital and I am trying to process a very aggressive cancer diagnosis for him.
She most definitely has a reproductive disease. Either EYP or salpingitis, but probably a little of both. She needs an antibiotic to...
I hear you and I am right there with you. What part of the country do you live in? I only have sick hens and broken roosters that come to me as well. Here is my story about my Henrietta. Reproductive disease angers me greatly, and is rarely talked about here or anywhere else...
Well, some of us here understand. I have a rescue and put implants in my hens to save them from reproductive disease (something you didn't have to worry about with a silkie - they are not high producers), more than 1/2 live in the house and the ones that are outside have heating and air...
Let's go through this one at a time. With her symptoms it could be:
Marek's
Vitamin deficiency especially E or B complex
Inner ear infection (have you given her an antibiotic?)
Brain or nerve tumor
The most important thing is to get her to eat. Do you have emergency food? Or even get some...
Well-written informative article. I did not know about the role of vitamin E in fertility, but I did know about it for the pathologies you listed. I will be looking forward to seeing if your statistics change for these pathologies. Thank you.