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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 237285" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>A couple of things to do - </p><p></p><p>1) listen to her breathing. She may have caught a cold, if she's a bit congested you'll hear her breath bubbling a bit, if she's mucussy. If so, tret her as your mother would have treated you when you had a cold (although I wouldn't give her chicken soup!)</p><p></p><p>2) Have a feel of her legs, feel how her "drumsticks" are. Sometimes they can get a wasting disease that you don't notice (because of all those feathers) but they get weak because of it, and you can ralise how much weight they've actually lost when you feel their drumsticks and find poor muscle tone.</p><p></p><p>Otherwise - keep her clean, comfortable and with good access to food and water. Check to see if she has fleas or mites, you can use a dog flea powder on her (we used to do that for broody hens, to stop them getting so itchy they throw the clutch right as they're about to hatch).</p><p></p><p>If she's too weak to easily reach her food and water, then put it near her in a way where she can get to it easily and safely. With a hen too weak to safely drink out of a normal water bowl you can use either a bottle with dripper nozzle, or a container with water, but with an extruded brick in it (extruded brick - they have holes through them). The brick stops her head from drooping into the bowl and drowning because she's too weak to get her head back out.</p><p>The brick is also a great idea when you're raising chicks - it's too easy for chicks to drown, but with an extruded brick they can stand on the brick and get to the water, but can easily hop back out again.</p><p></p><p>Otherwise - I can't help much, we've sometimes just had to either watch them die, or hurry the process if they were clearly in pain.</p><p></p><p>One important thing to bear in mind - ANY flock bird is most unlikely to show signs of illness, unless it's REALLY sick. Other flock birds are likely to attack an obviously ill bird, so they always desperately try to hide it if they're sick.</p><p>Sometimes to get a good idea of how sick they really are, look to see if they've moved down the pecking order. If they're beingh hassled by the other birds, remove them from the flock for a while to keep them safer.</p><p></p><p>I hope she gets better soon.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 237285, member: 1991"] A couple of things to do - 1) listen to her breathing. She may have caught a cold, if she's a bit congested you'll hear her breath bubbling a bit, if she's mucussy. If so, tret her as your mother would have treated you when you had a cold (although I wouldn't give her chicken soup!) 2) Have a feel of her legs, feel how her "drumsticks" are. Sometimes they can get a wasting disease that you don't notice (because of all those feathers) but they get weak because of it, and you can ralise how much weight they've actually lost when you feel their drumsticks and find poor muscle tone. Otherwise - keep her clean, comfortable and with good access to food and water. Check to see if she has fleas or mites, you can use a dog flea powder on her (we used to do that for broody hens, to stop them getting so itchy they throw the clutch right as they're about to hatch). If she's too weak to easily reach her food and water, then put it near her in a way where she can get to it easily and safely. With a hen too weak to safely drink out of a normal water bowl you can use either a bottle with dripper nozzle, or a container with water, but with an extruded brick in it (extruded brick - they have holes through them). The brick stops her head from drooping into the bowl and drowning because she's too weak to get her head back out. The brick is also a great idea when you're raising chicks - it's too easy for chicks to drown, but with an extruded brick they can stand on the brick and get to the water, but can easily hop back out again. Otherwise - I can't help much, we've sometimes just had to either watch them die, or hurry the process if they were clearly in pain. One important thing to bear in mind - ANY flock bird is most unlikely to show signs of illness, unless it's REALLY sick. Other flock birds are likely to attack an obviously ill bird, so they always desperately try to hide it if they're sick. Sometimes to get a good idea of how sick they really are, look to see if they've moved down the pecking order. If they're beingh hassled by the other birds, remove them from the flock for a while to keep them safer. I hope she gets better soon. Marg [/QUOTE]
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