- Sep 13, 2012
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First I brought in Blue because she had the same symptoms as one of my hens that died ( I'll tell you about her later but this is more urgent)
But then I found Ingrid in sleeping position sitting at the edge of the nesting box dripping gooey fluid from her butt...she was perky and fine just a couple of hours ago! i brought her into the basement for the night - she would not eat anything nor drink and she still won't!
I found part of a shell-less egg on her butt when i brought her in and her poop is liquidy and green
This morning i came to check on her and there was an egg and alot of fluid (white?) plus a lot poop
the only improvement is she is a little perkier but that is probably because it is day
HELP
plz don't suggest antibiotics!
But then I found Ingrid in sleeping position sitting at the edge of the nesting box dripping gooey fluid from her butt...she was perky and fine just a couple of hours ago! i brought her into the basement for the night - she would not eat anything nor drink and she still won't!
I found part of a shell-less egg on her butt when i brought her in and her poop is liquidy and green
This morning i came to check on her and there was an egg and alot of fluid (white?) plus a lot poop
the only improvement is she is a little perkier but that is probably because it is day
HELP
plz don't suggest antibiotics!
SO for the past month or so she's been gavin soft shelled eggs. Weird, so we upped her calcium. Still no luck. Yesterday she was making noises like she needed to lay and egg but never did. Started getting mopey, not eating/drinking, fluffed feathers, sulking head her vent was doing the same puckering like fish lips when a fish is out of water, her eyes were just not responsive to me... like she was looking straight through me. I immediately started researching and came up with egg bound or egg peritonitis.. As far as I felt there was no inflammation or any lumps. Finally she laid a shell less egg, but was still not right. Her poops were runny and had yellow, like the chalky yellow color of a cooked egg yolk. This matched up with egg peritonitis symptoms... maybe an egg had popped and she was pooping yolk. I decided things couldn't wait. Took her to the vet, they ran a culture test and said she has a raging infection at her egg tube opening which causes it to malfunction and not shell eggs. The vet also said that many people misdiagnose this as egg peritonitis or being egg bound. Beep got a big shot of antibiotics and was better last night. If you have an avian vet, I would go. If not, antibiotics could't hurt. I hope this helps! Crazy out of all the hours of internet research i did, nothing was the same answer as the vet gave me. I hope your girls get better. 
