the other week i walked into our veggie garden where our chooks live and one of them was laying on her side with her eyes partially shut. I thought she was dead. But she wasn't, in fact when i bought her in for the night she seemed fine. but the next day we took her to the vet (well, mum took her because i was in school at the time, but then she came back after recess to get me so the vet could explain it to me).
It didn't end well. She had to be put down. The vet said he wouldn't know for sure what was wrong without an autopsy; but he said this sort of thing was quite common in chickens. It may have been a tomour or cancer in her intestienes or something in her digestive tract. Anyway, to my point. I was a lot more upset than i thought i would be. actually, the vet would've thought i was a bit of a retard, crying over a chicken
. I couldn't even go back to school- i spent the rest of the day watching movies and doing nothing. i'm sort of worried about my other chook too- they're not supposed to be solitary animals! and the poor dear sat by the gate for the whole day!
sorry had to vent
it was going to be too much for an autopsy, but he made sure he showed me the symptoms in case our other chook gets sick 
