Sick hen

I'm sorry she didn't make it but it sounds like you did all you could. I have a book that describes how to do an autopsy on a duck but like you I'm not sure I could do that to a pet. I hope your other girls are fine.

Thanks folks.  When we were feeding her the last time her eyes kept closing and she nestled in, thought she was dying then but when we put her down she flapped her wings and walked back to the nest box.  Least she had a cuddle just before she passed away (this is no good at all you know, we have been thinking about having meat birds and would have to do the deed with them, they weren't supposed to be pets - blast got all attached).