It's amazing how much 'healthier' these chickens seem in the morning: perky, loving the food scraps they get, etc. A person would never be able to tell they are as sick as they are besides the occasional little sneeze. I will call my vet anyhow and also euthanize a few of them this weekend for sure.
Kristen
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> Haven't checked this group in a couple of days. Things seem relatively fine during the day-- chickens alert and happy and eating... except one hen who's been very skittish and scared for the last two weeks and I had her in the basement w/ the crop problem hen when the arctic freeze was here. She was just her normal nervous self, living in the sheep shed freely during the days now and in a box w/ a lightbulb at night (I thought she was molting... the two other hens I got w/ her also have been losing feathers). Today though she was hunched up and her crop seems large and her head moving around like that other hen. ugh.
> At night when they're roosting and still, I shine a light on them and just watch... the crop problem hen has a squishy crop at night with the knobby thing still there, in the same spot, but in the morning it goes down a bit. She still moves her head around a little. The other hens are still sneezing. Perhaps worse. The roo is fine during the day but often opens his mouth to breath as if struggling a bit to get air (this has always been the symptom when he's relapsed). A few hens are now shaking their heads a little. Maybe they do this all the time when they are roosting, but I don't remember seeing it before.
> They are still on 4 in 1 powder but I just looked at the forecast and saw that we'll have -11 degrees on Sunday night. I have been explaining to my daughters how sick they all are behaving and preparing them for the reality that we may have to euthanize them before the next cold stretch.
> It's been so warm here (30s).... I don't want them to endure more bone-chilling cold.
> As for how to kill them... the dry ice is hard to get up here in the boonies... fear of CO2 bombs made by kids apparently.
> I will call my vet tomorrow to see if she might come by. Doubtful.
> So I will probably have my husband shoot them once it gets dark.
> I know there's many worse things that can happen, but it still gets me upset to think of losing certain birds and doing it ourselves..
> Kristen
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