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  • Help! One of mine's sick now!

    I know there's been loads of posts about sick chooks but I need help with one of mine if there's any one with ideas. (and it was all going so well at last!)
    My newbie Nannie Ogg has not yet come into lay, she's about 24 weeks now and is very subdued and sleepy. Has been fine up until now and is settled along with the other newbie into my little flock.Today she has not been eating , although I hand fed her grapes and tomato. I have given her olive oil and a warm bath and hair dry( read about this re. being egg bound) Her crop is soft. She did drink on her own after I put her back but she isn't moving around much at all. I'm going to put a warm water bottle under her tonight but should I leave her with the others,they're not bothering her, or bring her in?
    I'm also worried for the other newbie as the settling in period has only just calmed down and they are still very much a little duo.
    Any ideas appreciated.
    Gardening forever- housework whenever

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    Hope she's better soon. Sounds like a chuck of mine who was egg bound, I would bring her inside if I was you. I might be wrong but it's worth a shot, mine was egg bound for a good 4 hours or so. What time did you bath her?

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    • #3
      At about 2pm. Nothing's happened and she's not wandering around or crouching as though she looking for or trying to lay.
      Gardening forever- housework whenever

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      • #4
        My chuck didn't do that either, she just sat there fluffed up and falling to sleep. It was just a thought re - eggbound. Hope she's better soon!

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        • #5
          Well, today she looks OK. She's eating drinking and more her normal self.
          Could there be an egg on the way??
          Gardening forever- housework whenever

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          • #6
            I do hope so! One of my 4 went off colour before her first egg. She wouldn't eat, sat dumped up and looked thoroughly miserable. Next day - egg! I hope it's just that. It's a big change for them.
            Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

            www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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