- Jun 10, 2013
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I treated my year old Barred Rock for sour crop a couple of weeks ago (probiotics for the win!), and she seemed to be doing fine, but didn't start laying again. I chalked it up to her recovering from being sick.
On Monday I noticed that she was spending a lot of time in the coop on the higher roost, not really interested in eating or drinking or coming outside. She had some of the same loose poop too, so I thought maybe she had sour crop again, but her crop seemed empty.
She's been indoors for observation for a few days. I can get her to eat cracked corn and occasionally some scrambled egg. She is pooping, but not much, and it's either really watery or small and greenish. She's thin. She's also just generally looking uncomfortable, always standing kind of hunched up with her feathers fluffed.
She has enough energy to be indignant when we try to make her sit in a warm bath (it's not relaxing for her, apparently). We've crushed up a calcium pill and mixed it with water to give to her (did this on two occasions), oiled her vent, and my friend used a gloved finger to determine that there does seem to be an egg about an inch inside her, a little to one side, which we can feel from the outside as well. We put her to bed next to a space heater last night (with a damp towel in front of it...trying for some moist heat).
Any thoughts or suggestions? I had a young pullet die from egg binding last year, but she huddled in the corner and was dead before I even realized what was happening. This girl is still pooping and doesn't seem to be making any attempts at laying (every time I see her she's standing, not sitting). But her hunched up backside and the palpitation makes me think an egg might be causing the issue.
On Monday I noticed that she was spending a lot of time in the coop on the higher roost, not really interested in eating or drinking or coming outside. She had some of the same loose poop too, so I thought maybe she had sour crop again, but her crop seemed empty.
She's been indoors for observation for a few days. I can get her to eat cracked corn and occasionally some scrambled egg. She is pooping, but not much, and it's either really watery or small and greenish. She's thin. She's also just generally looking uncomfortable, always standing kind of hunched up with her feathers fluffed.
She has enough energy to be indignant when we try to make her sit in a warm bath (it's not relaxing for her, apparently). We've crushed up a calcium pill and mixed it with water to give to her (did this on two occasions), oiled her vent, and my friend used a gloved finger to determine that there does seem to be an egg about an inch inside her, a little to one side, which we can feel from the outside as well. We put her to bed next to a space heater last night (with a damp towel in front of it...trying for some moist heat).
Any thoughts or suggestions? I had a young pullet die from egg binding last year, but she huddled in the corner and was dead before I even realized what was happening. This girl is still pooping and doesn't seem to be making any attempts at laying (every time I see her she's standing, not sitting). But her hunched up backside and the palpitation makes me think an egg might be causing the issue.
