Slow crop with ascarids

Just dropped:

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The buff was making enough mucus to stretch over much of her beak when I opened it, which scared me for multiple reasons. (She was pointing her beak down while resting, which made her drool, too.) I found a temperature that didn't make her pant much, and tried giving her some drops of fluid at the front of her beak and getting her to swallow or drool it out. I'm not sure that was such a good idea, after all. I thought she would be ok for a while and went to get some help, but she apparently asperated. She was the biggest, dominant hen, and often tried to eat more than her portion of grain. In the summer, they all jogged every day, and did a lot of romping, but the winter weather kept them from it half the time and she became more lethargic than the others. Even though she lost hundreds of grams per day, the necropsy found she was still overweight. She had a fatty liver. I wonder if it was from letting them help themselves to whole corn kernels a couple years ago, exasperated by this winter laziness. She was really tame and fun to play with. I miss her. I wish I had prevented this. In hindsight, it's a lot clearer than I thought at the time...

Here's another poop pic from the other hen, though not as fresh:

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How's it looking? At least it's not runny.
 
Clean your coop and feeders and waters. Then dip in bleach water after thoroughly rinsing the waterer and feeder before that.
 
Thanks! I have extra feeders and waterers they use while I clean the others, which I try to do almost daily, rotating between using vinager, dish soap, etc. I ran out of bleach, for now, but I think they are pretty well set. I clean the coops less often, but I've been more focused on that, recently. The other hen isn't acting sick, anymore. She seems able to regulate her own temperature better than the heater can. It went out the other night, and she seemed fine. Her appetite is back. She calls through the wall to the others, and they call back. Haha. I'm keeping her seperated for now, despite her escape attempts. This is the weirdest dropping I've seen recently, part cecal. The rest of the cecal was over on one side, and a smaller regular dropping on the other.
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