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[thechickenkeeper]

Hi there, the reason i ask this is, twice this week, poor Nellie has laid a soft egg, and on both days she has been very withdrawn, today the second day, she spent most of it asleep, however yesterday when she laid a normal egg, she was fine, in amongst it with the others, has anyone else's birds suffered the same?

 

 

 

[sandyhas3chucks]

short answer yes!!!!

It is real hard work for them & it takes it out of them, they can be very uncimfortable, mine for up to 12 hours, or until it has all come out, Had a yolk passed After mebrane egg shell with only albumen in it, had all inside an egg shell gum following morning.

[dancing cloud]

When Joy lays softies, she looks really ill before laying it and then looks really sorry for herself afterwards . She soon perks up though, especially if a therapeutic grape or two is available

 

Daisy laid a softie a couple of weeks ago and went off into the by herself with a definite attitude of "I want to be alone". Come bedtime though she went into the with the others. Splended isolation was all very well and good, but it was getting cold and she wanted a snuggle

[Egluntyne]

I'm not sure that they get depressed as such, but the whole process is painful for them, hence the miserable appearance.

[sandyhas3chucks]

I'm not sure that they get depressed as such, but the whole process is painful for them, hence the miserable appearance.

Sorry i meant.... yes mine suffer like that too, not that they are depressed

[mostin]

My Prissy is still moulting (this must be a record moult) at the moment, and it's causing her to lay loads of softies. She looks thoroughly miserable and depressed all of the time. Hunched up, and doesn't join in with the other girls scratching around. I think it makes them feel very ill.

[laurmurf]

I think my Buffy had given up the will to carry on - that counts as depression, doesn't it?

 

We thought we were losing her yesterday, she'd given up eating and drinking and lost all interest. I was so worried about leaving her today, then an idea occurred to me before I went to work. We propped a big mirror next to her cage in the kitchen, for company, and she's really perked up! She makes every effort to stay near the mirror and keeps looking in it. Tonight she's been eating and drinking and looks much more alert. She's still a very poorly girl but she seems happier too.

 

She's ill and she's lonely and the mirror has helped her in some small way, i'm sure of it.

[Mutrix Farmers]

When Henry went through a phase of laying softies and rough shelled eggs, she did look very dejected, didn't even want grapes. But she got over it and now she's fine!

[Janty]

My cochin looks very ill and 'sad' when she is about to lay a softie.

[thechickenkeeper]

I think my Buffy had given up the will to carry on - that counts as depression, doesn't it?

 

We thought we were losing her yesterday, she'd given up eating and drinking and lost all interest. I was so worried about leaving her today, then an idea occurred to me before I went to work. We propped a big mirror next to her cage in the kitchen, for company, and she's really perked up! She makes every effort to stay near the mirror and keeps looking in it. Tonight she's been eating and drinking and looks much more alert. She's still a very poorly girl but she seems happier too.

 

She's ill and she's lonely and the mirror has helped her in some small way, i'm sure of it.

 

What a great idea, I don't know if you saw an episode of the Ben Fogle programme at Longreach Safari Park, where they had trouble with breeding their Flamingoes, they were too scared as there were only 25 of them, and as we know from doco's they live in groups of millions, so they lined their roost with mirrors, and hey presto, fertile eggs, they felt safer in a larger group. very cool.