Flitter
October 2008 - December 24th, 2011
My gorgeous girl was admitted to Lort Smith Animal Hospital for her hernia on the 23rd. The surgery was a success but poor Flitter had trouble breathing and had to be put into a special incubator with oxygen being pumped in.
Her surgery was meant to be routine and We hoped she could come home but the next day, the 24th, the vet rang to say Flitter started spasm-ing and they tried to stabilize her but couldn't so the decision was easy for them to put her down.
Hernia's seem to happen often with poultry; my online research tells me a chicken is either born with it or develops a hernia when they first start to lay. Flitter has always laid big eggs so I suspect that is the reason.
I always thought I would have her for years and years.
Read about how I got Flitter in my old posts here
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