Post by ponymum on Feb 9, 2010 13:12:08 GMT
Some of you wil remember the saga of my first rescue chicken Lloyd.
You can re-cap here -----> torcroftsgarden.blogspot.com/2009/03/lock-up-your-chickens.html
Well today Lloyd died.
Only just over a year old.
In fact it was almost to the day that we found her.
She'd been a bit "off" for a few days, but nothing amazingly serious, still eating and drinking and pottering about, but this morning she didn't come out of the hen house, just lay in the nest box, fluffed up and off her legs.
So I took her inside and bedded her up in the puppy pen.
The plan being to see how she was after I had dropped the kids at school. After coming back I took some pics and was going to pop online to see if anyone had any idea what could be wrong with her, vets being notorious for shrugging and handing out anti-biotics and saying "keep 'em warm and see what happens that'll be £30 please".
By the time I had turned on the computer though she was dying, proper death rattling and jerking.
I think it was somthing to do with her heart. Afer all these birds are not bred for longivity, usually ending up on a table between 16 and 21 weeks, and in the last few days her comb had srunk and she seemed to have problems keeping warm (fluffing up a lot) which I'm guessing could indicate compromised circulation.
Any thoughts on that.
There was no obvious sign of illness, no runny nose or coughing, the other chickens are hale and hearty, so maybe Lloyd had just run out of time.
You can re-cap here -----> torcroftsgarden.blogspot.com/2009/03/lock-up-your-chickens.html
Well today Lloyd died.
Only just over a year old.
In fact it was almost to the day that we found her.
She'd been a bit "off" for a few days, but nothing amazingly serious, still eating and drinking and pottering about, but this morning she didn't come out of the hen house, just lay in the nest box, fluffed up and off her legs.
So I took her inside and bedded her up in the puppy pen.
The plan being to see how she was after I had dropped the kids at school. After coming back I took some pics and was going to pop online to see if anyone had any idea what could be wrong with her, vets being notorious for shrugging and handing out anti-biotics and saying "keep 'em warm and see what happens that'll be £30 please".
By the time I had turned on the computer though she was dying, proper death rattling and jerking.
I think it was somthing to do with her heart. Afer all these birds are not bred for longivity, usually ending up on a table between 16 and 21 weeks, and in the last few days her comb had srunk and she seemed to have problems keeping warm (fluffing up a lot) which I'm guessing could indicate compromised circulation.
Any thoughts on that.
There was no obvious sign of illness, no runny nose or coughing, the other chickens are hale and hearty, so maybe Lloyd had just run out of time.