Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[townchicks]

I really wish I had that oviduct removal done to Skeksis. She would still be alive.

Maybe. Don't kick yourself over it, we never know how things turn out.

 

[townchicks]

hoping for the best for you both Sounds like you have a good vet, so lucky!

Thanks, she's doing well so far. Yes, I consider myself very lucky, this is an avian only practice, and they are very knowledgeable about chickens, and care about them as much as an expensive macaw. I also feel lucky that for now anyway, I can afford it. I wish more people on here had better access to a vet for their chickens, but thank goodness for all the knowledgeable folks on this site, willing to help when they can.

 

[Shadrach]

One hour today. It wasn't worth going any earlier due to the wind and rain.
They came out of the coop extension for a brief forage and went back in.
Too wet and cold to be interested in working so I sat in the coop extension with the hens until they went to roost.

 

[ChaosMom]

Just messin’ around:

 

[MaryJanet]

One of my rescue adoption hens, Maeve, the EE, had been laying a nice sage green egg about 3 times a week, since mid February, but stopped laying abruptly about a month ago. She's very handling adverse, so I left her alone for a couple of weeks, as she was acting fine and is an older girl, so I hadn't really been expecting her to lay much. I did grab her a couple weeks ago though, to trim a poopy butt, and check her out. I discovered a swollen abdomen and with palpation I could feel a hard, egg size mass. I thought she could be internally laying, and a trip to the vet earlier this week confirmed it. So this morning I dropped her off at the vet to have surgery, to remove the egg material and oviduct. It went well, and I'll be bringing her home on Saturday. So yesterday I tried to get a few decent pics of her, just in case things went sideways. She's camera shy, and I'm not much of a photographer, but I did get a couple decent ones. Also got pics of Celeste, who is definitely not camera shy, and Barbie, who is also not camera shy.

Hope it works out for her. FWIW, every time I've taken a hen for surgery at the vet it's gone well.

 

[townchicks]

Hope it works out for her. FWIW, every time I've taken a hen for surgery at the vet it's gone well.

Thanks, it went very well. She is coming home tomorrow morning.