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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 347430" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We've lost the occasional chook from a muscle-wasting disease. The chook would seem to be doing OK but getting weaker. Then they would suddenly go downhill fast, sometimes the first we knew was when we found a dead chicken. We even had one that literally fell off te perch - I was standing in the backyard near the chook house, and saw it fall. By the time I got to it, it was definitely dead. Bizarre.</p><p></p><p>But the ones that would suddenly go downhill - I could pick them up and they wouldn't struggle because they were too weak. I could feel their "drumsticks" and there was nothing to them, they'd lost so much muscle. A few times we had a long-term weak and sick chook, I put her near her own bowl of water and pile of pellets, she seemed to do OK and rally a bit.</p><p></p><p>But the biggest concern - chooks are a flock bird, and flock birds hide their illness for as long as they can. If the other birds realise one of their number is sick, they often attack or injure the sick bird. So if you have a bird so obviously sick, it's often too late to do much other than make it comfortable.</p><p></p><p>Isolating it from the others should make it possible for it to recover without getting "henpecked" and possibly not be so stressed. But easy child needs to brace herself for bad news. You're doing all you can, there's nothing more you can do, but it may be inevitable.</p><p></p><p>Water supply - you are changing it daily, aren't you?</p><p>A thought - do you have some rocks,s or extruded bricks? We've got half bricks, extruded (these are the ones with holes through the middle) and we put one in the square water bowl (4 L ice cream container). It allows the water to stay in a (heavy, can't be tipped over) bowl and for the birds to drink, but not accidentally drown in it. We had one sick chook drown in the water bowl - she became too weak to lift her head up. Her body was outside the bowl. I hadn't put in an extruded brick at the time, I wished I had. But if she was so weak that she couldn't lift her head out of the bowl, she might have been dead soon anyway.</p><p></p><p>We use the extruded brick in water bowl, when we have chicks. It stops the chicks from falling in to the water bowl and drowning. They can get themselves out onto the brick and get out safely.</p><p></p><p>At least you are giving this hen every chance.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 347430, member: 1991"] We've lost the occasional chook from a muscle-wasting disease. The chook would seem to be doing OK but getting weaker. Then they would suddenly go downhill fast, sometimes the first we knew was when we found a dead chicken. We even had one that literally fell off te perch - I was standing in the backyard near the chook house, and saw it fall. By the time I got to it, it was definitely dead. Bizarre. But the ones that would suddenly go downhill - I could pick them up and they wouldn't struggle because they were too weak. I could feel their "drumsticks" and there was nothing to them, they'd lost so much muscle. A few times we had a long-term weak and sick chook, I put her near her own bowl of water and pile of pellets, she seemed to do OK and rally a bit. But the biggest concern - chooks are a flock bird, and flock birds hide their illness for as long as they can. If the other birds realise one of their number is sick, they often attack or injure the sick bird. So if you have a bird so obviously sick, it's often too late to do much other than make it comfortable. Isolating it from the others should make it possible for it to recover without getting "henpecked" and possibly not be so stressed. But easy child needs to brace herself for bad news. You're doing all you can, there's nothing more you can do, but it may be inevitable. Water supply - you are changing it daily, aren't you? A thought - do you have some rocks,s or extruded bricks? We've got half bricks, extruded (these are the ones with holes through the middle) and we put one in the square water bowl (4 L ice cream container). It allows the water to stay in a (heavy, can't be tipped over) bowl and for the birds to drink, but not accidentally drown in it. We had one sick chook drown in the water bowl - she became too weak to lift her head up. Her body was outside the bowl. I hadn't put in an extruded brick at the time, I wished I had. But if she was so weak that she couldn't lift her head out of the bowl, she might have been dead soon anyway. We use the extruded brick in water bowl, when we have chicks. It stops the chicks from falling in to the water bowl and drowning. They can get themselves out onto the brick and get out safely. At least you are giving this hen every chance. Marg [/QUOTE]
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