Hen with dirty behind feathers

I have been giving her more antibiotics to try and help with any infection and maybe I'm wrong about the internal laying? I went out this morning to take care of the girls and check on butterscotch especially of course and she was a little bit perkier than she has been! She actually came over pretty quickly when I changed the water to get a drink and didn't have her tail down!!! Could it be that maybe I was wrong and it was something else and she's improving!? Her poop was also more solid this morning and was a dark green/brown with white! Haha never thought id be so excited about chicken poo!

You never know, most of the time chickens are very hard to diagnose. The swollen abdomen is the biggest concern, you'll just have to take it a day at a time and see how it goes. The birds I've had with that condition, regardless the cause, would have good days and bad days. It could be that she was starting with peritonitis and the antibiotics are knocking that down so she feels better. It's almost impossible to say unless you have an avian vet take a look at her.

Just keep doing what your doing and hope for the best, sometimes it's all we can do. And I think we all understand about the poop thing lol!
smile.png
 
You can crush a little tums and offer to her...

I have to agree with your and cafarmgirl comments about poop...so great to see poop when it appears normal...!

I may attend University to study poop...it is so interesting...I examine duck, goose, chicken, rabbit, dog, donkey and horse every day... it is the cleaning up behind them ( excuse the pun ) after....
sickbyc.gif
 
Lol well what a difference a night has made! She ate drank and pooped normal i have her a bath this morning and dried her and she enjoyed that even making noise today and preening herself!!! Her comb has color to it again!!! I'm hoping were on the upside of this! :) thanks again everyone
 
And maybe she's just having a good day but either way I'll take it
wink.png

That's all you can do. And sometimes they surprise us and things turn around, you just never know. It's so hard to know exactly what's going on and they are really tough critters, it's amazing what they can recover from and what they can live with long term.
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom