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purpledragon wrote:As some of you know, I gave Kimmie some of my pullets last weekend - the day of the NEEPS meet in fact.

She has 6 - two small ones, and 4 bigger ones. The two small ones were confined when I gave them to her, and have settled no bother in their indoor coop and run. Three of the bigger hens have settled fine, but one is ailing really badly.

I have been over to see what the problem is but I am at a loss.
She is really listless, hardly bothering to wander about or scratch.
She takes water but hasn't eaten since she moved house.
She is skin and bone, and her breast bone is fairly protruding.
She had nothing at all in her crop.
I couldn't feel any obstructions in her vent area, and her bum is clean.
I had a poke about the poo's I could find and there was no sign of parasites.
She has no parasites that I could see in her feathers, around her eyes or her vent.
Her eyes are clear and her comb is not pale.
Her legs are smooth.
I threw her gently down from a low drop and she used her wings to glide in to land no bother.
She has a wobble when she walks, and seems not to see things, walking into them.
She was dead easy to catch, and when I was handling her she didn't pant or panic, she just sat there. Actually, she started to doze off.
I have checked her feet and claws and they are clean and I pressed up and down the legs and the feet - no wounds or sensitivities that I can see.

She is drinking water. We have seperated her from the rest of the flock, but she is in a cage within the run so the others can still see her. She has a heat lamp now to keep her warm. Kimmie gave her a wee bit of yoghurt (on the recommendation of a page from Katie Thear to try and feed the natural bacteria in the stomach), and she has taken some milk as well. We tried to give her a wee bit of wormer but didn't want to stress her out, so we have hardly given her enough to matter.

I can't see anything physical wrong with her. The other pullets are well and perky, and none of mine are poorly. The only thing Kimmie and I can come up with is shock from the move and a subsequent depression.

Her circumstances have changed from being within a flock of 30 birds to a flock of 6, albeit those 6 are siblings. She has gone from being outside, free range on grass to inside a barn with a run of sawdust. Oh, and her food has changed. She was being fed both with scatter for scratching and from a static food source; now it is scatter, and Kimmie has changed from growers pellets to something else that is organic but I can't remember what.

Am I missing something? I am at a complete loss. Typically it is the only pullet Kimmie and Matt have named