I want to tell you guys a story of my favorite chicken. She is a Rhode Island red it is about 3 years old. She is my absolute favorite chicken. I noticed about a month ago she was sitting by herself and as we all know this usually means that a bird does not feel well. After investigating her I realize that her belly felt like I had a big water balloon in it. I immediately separated her from the others and put her in a cage that we use to break a Broody hens. I did this because chickens will sometimes team up on a weak hen and kill them. I unfortunately did not have the money to take her to the vet so I had to get for supportive care. A couple of days before we were supposed to leave to go on vacation my husband was thinking about finally taking her and worried they might have to put her down. I told him that we're not going to give up on her because she was eating and drinking normally and having no issues with breathing. But from everything we have read on the web of swollen stomach with fluid usually means death. The day before we left she was ran out of the cage that she was in and ran around like nothing ever happened I felt her if she still had some fluid but not as much as she used to. When we got back from our vacation and she was 100% back to her old self. I'm so glad we did not give up on her and continued to take the best care we can offer her because now my favorite chicken is back with her girls and doing as well as she was before