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    Best Treatment Details for Egg Yolk Peritonitis?

    I'm very excited for her to be chubby and fluffy, because she's always been a bit skinny and scrappy! I've also had one of my other chooks (with a similar background) implanted, and after a few weeks of her feeling a little cranky and down (I'm guessing due to the hormone changes) she's the...
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    Best Treatment Details for Egg Yolk Peritonitis?

    She’s doing well! She’s come into a moult, which means the Suprelorin implant has definitely worked, so that is a big relief. She’s feeling a bit sorry for herself with the moulting, but is otherwise just the same as always! We went to the vet the other day to get her stitches out. When she...
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    Best Treatment Details for Egg Yolk Peritonitis?

    Hi all, We're at Day 4 post-surgery now and Vally is going fantastically well. Basically back to her normal self and very energetic. It's hard trying to keep her quiet to prevent her damaging herself or tearing stitches out, but so far we've been very successful. Here are the photos from the...
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    Best Treatment Details for Egg Yolk Peritonitis?

    I'm not sure why both were prescribed, but she had been on Amoxyclav a few times in the past so perhaps the vet was a bit worried about antibiotic resistance and wanted to play is safe? I'd definitely recommend just asking multiple vets for thoughts and prices based on my experience.
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    Best Treatment Details for Egg Yolk Peritonitis?

    Hey everyone, Quick update for you all. Vally survived the surgery, recovery, and is doing well post-op. She's already eating and drinking small amounts, and having gentle walks around her recovery pen. It was a 1.5 hour surgery. The vet had intended only to remove the mass, but when they...
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    Best Treatment Details for Egg Yolk Peritonitis?

    Another update for everyone (as I'm hoping this thread will be useful for others in this situation). Epsom salt baths, antibiotics, and anti-inflammatories didn't appear to be helping the mass move along. The mass appeared in the ultrasound to be very close to the cloaca, but it can't be felt...
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    Best Treatment Details for Egg Yolk Peritonitis?

    Update for everyone. I took her to another vet for a secondary opinion. They offered (free of charge - bless!) to do an x-ray, which didn't reveal anything hard-shelled, but a subsequent ultrasound revealed a large shell-less egg (probably a lash) stuck very close to the cloaca. They believe...
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    Best Treatment Details for Egg Yolk Peritonitis?

    Hey guys, I'm really hoping to find some detailed advice for this... A few weeks ago, my 2 year old ISA brown rescue hen, named Valentina, started showing signs of being unwell. She was lethargic, diarrhea, with a funny posture (tail up, but legs not in typical wide-stance position), but was...
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    Laying hen is active, eating, and bright, but is very thin and always has diarrhoea

    Hi guys, About 4 months ago, I adopted/rescued two retired Isa Brown laying hens from a battery farm in Australia. They're between 18 months and 2 years old. One of the hens is very healthy and always has been. The other (her name is Vally) has always been quite sickly. She came to me quite...
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    Very Unwell Chicken - Reoccurring Sour Crop

    @Lillith37 did your girl make a recovery from her issues and did it end up being metal toxicity? Really hoping you had a happy ending! Thanks so much for the kind words. She definitely had a happy, healthy end to life and that's more than what most of the cage egg girls get!
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    Very Unwell Chicken - Reoccurring Sour Crop

    Hi guys, Sorry for my very delayed response. To answer all of the above questions: I never found any mouldy feed that she could have eaten, and their food is kept fresh in a sealed container. I did check the feed but didn't find anything strange. We live in a very pristine rural/rainforest...
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    Very Unwell Chicken - Reoccurring Sour Crop

    She hasn't laid for about 3 months now (neither have the 2 other hens she came to me with). But from what I've seen, it's pretty standard for retired battery hens to stop laying earlier because they put so much energy into laying early in life. I thought the same, but I've done several really...
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    Very Unwell Chicken - Reoccurring Sour Crop

    Hi guys, I've looked through dozens of online articles for help with this (including many on this site) but can't find anything that really fits the situation I'm in. About 3 weeks ago, one of my Isa Brown hens (approx. 4 years old; ex-battery hen) became a bit lethargic and lost some of her...
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