Ever since we lost Sunny, I've been hyper vigilant about checking on the girls every day. I suddenly noticed in this last week that Sally the other RIR hen was acting a little off. She was laying down in the run with her eyes closed which in the chicken world could mean she is about to die. I of course started freaking out and started internet diagnosing her (with the help of backyardchickens.com). I started out thinking she had sour crop and dosed her with apple cider vinegar in the water (turned out I had the wrong type of vinegar tho. oops). then I started thinking she has worms so gave her worm medicine. And now my thinking is maybe she is in a molt and that is making her lose her appetite.
Well for now, she is still alive just not eating much but maybe it's just a phase... one can hope.
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