chocolatedog Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 (edited) Hi everyone - not been around for a while, but just thought I'd share with you something that happened today. Spice mark II has got an enlarged crop (but empty) for which I'm dosing her with liquid paraffin and massaging her crop....but as I caught her today to repeat her treatment, she let out a squawk as she usually does (she doesn't like being touched!) and Pepper mark II flew at me and pecked my arm!! She had the decency to look shamefaced afterwards, but has anyone else ever come across one hen actively defending another?! It was actually quite sweet, I think, as I can't interpret it any other way..... Edited July 23, 2012 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Bet that hurt but that is quite sweet . Love the notion of a shame-faced chicken, I've never seen one . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Brass neck is how I'd describe a couple of my girls - quite apt when we are talking crops. if they were humans I think we wouldnt get on but because they are chickens despite their naughtiness i love em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LottyJ1 Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Yes my new Plymouth Rock definatly get cross with me when I try to handle the Maran - not pecked me yet but gets all cross with me! So funny and cute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolatedog Posted July 23, 2012 Author Share Posted July 23, 2012 Today, Monday, I took her back to the vet as I felt there was no improvement and that 3 days of starvation and massage should have started to make a difference. He told me the crop was more distended and saggy than last week, and, after he had done an ultra-sound, that there was no muscle movement at all. He felt to give her Baytril to stop infection setting in would just prolong her life, but without any chance of the muscles springing back into shape. Bless her - her crop was so distended that she'd lost all the feathers on that area because of rubbing on the perch while roosting...... I feel really upset that I hadn't spotted the extent of her impacted crop earlier (both she and Ginger had impacted crop about a month - 2 months ago). Ginger is back to normal, but Spice being a bigger, fluffier bird it was hard to spot that it wasn't fully sorted...... Anyway, we felt it was right for her to be PTS. RIP Spice II my beautiful girl........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheeky Chooky Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 *hug* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gertie Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Sorry to hear about that but it sounds like you did all you could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimi5 Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Oh I really feel for you!!!BIG HUG! I had a very similiar experience with my lavender pekin Mary. I too didn't notice her crop was impacted and by the time I did and got her to the vet, despite their best efforts, in the end she also was PTS The vet was lovely and said that even if she had recovered she may never have been right and it could have been a genetic pre-disposition. (she was pooing so something was going through, but as she had started laying a few weeks before had gotten very thin) Still so sad to say goodbye and I really cried as I felt I should have noticed sooner....could have done something! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superkitty Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 So sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nature Chick Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 So sorry to hear about Spice. You have definately done the right thing, poor little Hattie had a similar problem a couple of years ago and she had surgery and medication and it ended the same way. Part of me feels guilty for putting her through the operation and that perhaps it would have been kinder to PTS earlier. We do what we think is right at the time. Hugs S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LottyJ1 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 So sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
