Showing posts with label death of my beautiful girl gwen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death of my beautiful girl gwen. Show all posts

Friday, 30 April 2010

Gwen-death of my beautiful girl

Gwen is a chicken or hen. Gwen died today. She had freedom less than one year. She came from a battery farm via the Little hen rescue. I had her in June last year with 2 other girls and then 3 more a week or so later. Three weeks ago I took her to the vets convinced she had gapeworm. She kept opening her mouth. The vet said the wormer I had been giving her was fine - she had it once a month as directled on the bottle and the vet looked down her throat and saw nothing so said I was wrong and she had a mild infection. She gave gwen antibiotics. Gwen got better. She wen back in with her friends having spenst a few daysin my kitchen. Then she was suddenly ill looking so I tok her out this morning. By lunchtime I was very concerned and phoned the vets. Instead of going to the local office who I was sure had got it wrong and I was still convinced gwen had gape worm so we took her 40 miles to warwick which is teh head office of our vets. We saw a vet who knopws about chickens. She confirmed I was right - me who knows nothing about chickens!! Obviously previous vet must have been incompetant- and gwen has a chest infection. Gave er antibiotics and this time a new wormer since the one I was using DID NOT kill gape!!!!! I was using vermX. The new one is flubenvet and states on it it kills gape amongst other types of worms. Its a white powder you mix into their food. Gwen had an injection - all in all these 2 visits cost over £70. We get home and are there about 2 minutes wne gwen has a sort of fit and just dies......................
I am so upset..............