Nearly 2 year old Easter egger hen, found in coop Tuesday afternoon squatting and panting, brought inside to “hospital” pen in bathroom. It was warm yesterday so I gave her a soak in the sink.
She’s panting, won’t stand, if she does stand she stumbles and falls over. Crop felt very full last night so I withheld food and gave electrolyte water by syringe. She did poop a lot overnight and it seemed normal. Crop this morning is mostly empty but still a bit squishy.
She has had impacted/sour crop before about 6 months ago and I treated with lots of water, olive oil, and monistat cream. She recovered and has been doing fine. This came on very suddenly.
She is wheezing a bit too and making some pained noises when I examine her abdomen. She laid a normal egg yesterday and I don’t feel any masses although the size of eggs she normally lays is astonishing for a medium size bird.
She has been vax for marek’s and I did put two 6 week olds in a separate pen in their coop about 10 days ago (hatched those two in a bator in my house). Nothing else has changed. They free ranged once last week when the weather was nice but otherwise have a large fenced in grassy & dirt area plus the coop.
Ideas? She’s a favorite of course, and the bottom of the pecking order.
She’s panting, won’t stand, if she does stand she stumbles and falls over. Crop felt very full last night so I withheld food and gave electrolyte water by syringe. She did poop a lot overnight and it seemed normal. Crop this morning is mostly empty but still a bit squishy.
She has had impacted/sour crop before about 6 months ago and I treated with lots of water, olive oil, and monistat cream. She recovered and has been doing fine. This came on very suddenly.
She is wheezing a bit too and making some pained noises when I examine her abdomen. She laid a normal egg yesterday and I don’t feel any masses although the size of eggs she normally lays is astonishing for a medium size bird.
She has been vax for marek’s and I did put two 6 week olds in a separate pen in their coop about 10 days ago (hatched those two in a bator in my house). Nothing else has changed. They free ranged once last week when the weather was nice but otherwise have a large fenced in grassy & dirt area plus the coop.
Ideas? She’s a favorite of course, and the bottom of the pecking order.
