- Sep 20, 2011
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I'm having problems with my RIR x hen Gladys, yesterday morning her poop was like see through/water with green matter in the middle, she was drinking alot too so I adjusted the airflow and gave her some electrolyte fluid, then put her on chick crumbs to thicken her poop; it's worked so far but now she's in her box piling straw around herself with her breast down and rump in the air and her tail stood straight up as if she's going to lay. She laid an egg the night before/morning I bought her and I was told she lays about a week apart, I only got her a few days ago so she has a couple more to go before she's due again; last night I gave her a dose of Zolcal D calcium supplement, crushed dried mealworms for protein, a soak in a warm bath and I carefully lubricated just inside her vent with vaseline and a cotton bud (Q-tip); she's 8 months old and the lady at the store I got her from said she's an established layer with no problems, I just can't stop myself from worrying though at the watery poop, some look almost normal then there is nothing for a while, then suddenly a HUGE green odorous one with blood streaks - the vets isn't open til tomorrow either so I'm on my own with this :/ Also in her bedding yesterday morning I found a lump of pinkish coral looking 'flesh', I read that intestinal lining sometimes gets shed and is normal, but I'm still not confident, can anybody help me? I'm absolutely panicked for my girl, does this look like Coccidiosis? All the pics of her poop are added in order from the first watery one yesterday morning.
The fleshy lump found in her bedding
Relatively normal looking poop that night, then nothing til late morning and suddenly it's huge, runny, green, smelly with blood streaks
Then back to water, some green mass and some normal
And back to more normal looking, there's no telling what the next one will be like though :/
The fleshy lump found in her bedding
Relatively normal looking poop that night, then nothing til late morning and suddenly it's huge, runny, green, smelly with blood streaks
Then back to water, some green mass and some normal
And back to more normal looking, there's no telling what the next one will be like though :/