Maddcatter
Crowing
I had a bird that magically recovered too. She went from happy and healthy to shrunken comb and pale and breathing hard in like 2 days. I figured she was egg bound, but she wasn't. Gave her all the egg bound treatment, but she didn't lay an egg. After 4days I figured it wasn't egg bound, because she should be dead. She then got to hang out in my sick pen for like a month. Got oil of oregano for 2 weeks. Chick food, and honey/acv water for 3 weeks, and after that she still didn't seem like she was good, but didn't seem as bad. Put her back with the flock (with careful monitoring)... because chickens like being with their flock. She has slowly recovered, and is good now.I finally have some pictures of the not so little girls. That's a big girl in the foreground of the first pic. All are having a great time foraging, chest bumping, running to get treats. Changed all the feed to 19% for everyone, so no worries about the pullets getting unintended calcium until 6 more weeks. They made 10 weeks on Tuesday.
Onyx seems back to her normal self. Hasn't laid any more eggs yet. Not sure what her ailment was, but am relieved that she is well.
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No idea what happened, but I'm glad she survived.