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In the Brooder
- May 30, 2016
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My chicken looks really ill, I went down to check on the chickens this afternoon and she was sitting on the ground and when I picked her up then put her back down again she was very unsteady and basically fell onto her side.
I checked around her vent and there was loads of caked poo, so I put her in a warm bath and tried to get most of it off.
I looked it up and thought maybe there was an egg stuck in there but I pretty sure there isn’t as I tried to feel her abdomen and it was really soft and felt as if there was a lot of liquid in there, and I couldn’t really tell by checking the vent if anything was there
We then dried her off and she’s currently sitting in a box of straw with a blanket over her but she seems to keep dropping off as if she’s falling asleep...
She does move her head from time to time almost a twitch
I gave her some of those iodine nutrient drop things and she’s had lots of water and she managed to eat a bit of grain.
Any advice would be so helpful
I checked around her vent and there was loads of caked poo, so I put her in a warm bath and tried to get most of it off.
I looked it up and thought maybe there was an egg stuck in there but I pretty sure there isn’t as I tried to feel her abdomen and it was really soft and felt as if there was a lot of liquid in there, and I couldn’t really tell by checking the vent if anything was there
We then dried her off and she’s currently sitting in a box of straw with a blanket over her but she seems to keep dropping off as if she’s falling asleep...
She does move her head from time to time almost a twitch
I gave her some of those iodine nutrient drop things and she’s had lots of water and she managed to eat a bit of grain.
Any advice would be so helpful