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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    She died. I am devastated. She was my sweetest little love...
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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    I found the video very helpful and informative, I just could not find a syringe large enough. I watched how the vet did it and I would prefer to do it myself. He says if I need to come back in they can have a vet tech do it and won't charge a visit fee and it will only be $20. That's very sweet...
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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    We are at the vet. He also is suspecting peritonitis or ascetes. She is slightly dehydrated. He suctioned out the fluid (tons!) and said to switch from the penicillin to something stronger. He gave a Lasix injection to help her- in the hopes that she might pee more fluid out. He's prescribing...
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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    Great video! Thanks so much for sending it. If I could get my hand on a syringe that big I would try it. What a sweet woman in that video (and so informative.)
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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    Thank you so much. I couldn't find a catheter anywhere. I found a vet tech that gave me a syringe and recommended I try to insert the needle only and see if it drains through it. (It didn't.) I'll stop with the molasses. I have her on penicillin (two doses so far.) I got her a dr's appt tomorrow...
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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    She just pooped. What does this poop tell us? Also there is a little clicking sound with each breath, so I think I may need to find a catheter and remove some of this fluid. What do you think about that? Thank you for helping me.
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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    I found this link describing how to suction the water. Do you think that's the route I should take? https://forum.thepoultrysite.com/discussion/4340/swollen-chicken-any-ideas#Comment_10730 I gave her molasses and electrolytes/probiotics orally in a syringe and she is having an Epsom salt bath...
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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    She is so full of water today. She is bloated up huge. I am soaking her in an Epsom salt bath. She didn't move this morning. She did have a bunch of poop behind her that I think was hers. It looked fine. I had to scoop it out too see it and it's hard to tell much from it now. It looks like mushy...
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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    You are wonderful. Thank you very much for helping me. ( And Penny.)❤️
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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    Thank you, Tammy!!! Here's a picture of her. She is off by herself. Is this the right stuff?
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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    She is four years old. There has been a few bloody poops in the coop the last two days, none today. There has been two eggs without a shell in the last month, but I don't know who laid them. It looks like she had some yellowish stuff dribbling out of her vent before I gave her the sitz bath. I...
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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    My favorite chicken has a very bloated belly. She didn't come down to feed this morning when the others did, although she did a little later. She is walking slow, but not necessarily like a penguin. Her feathers are fluffed up. I just gave her a sitz bath and inserted my finger into her vent. I...
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    Wheezing when breathing after 'possum attack

    She is doing way better today! I am so happy! She is breathing with a little bit less labor and is walking around with the other chickens, drinking and eating!!! The medicine that they prescribed says trimeth / sulfa susp 240 mg/5ml. Millie is four pounds.
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    Wheezing when breathing after 'possum attack

    These messages didn't come through until I was already at the vet appointment. So, here's the scoop- they gave her an antibiotic that is also an antiparasitic and they gave her an anti-inflammatory. He thinks it is internal trauma caused from the opossom. She had another stool that had a little...
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    Wheezing when breathing after 'possum attack

    What would you all do? I'm waiting for the vet to call me back to see if there's room for an appt today, but they are closed until 2 for lunch and are an hour away. It'll be a minimum of $300, which I can't afford. I'm guessing they won't be able to get us in until tomorrow. Would you buy...
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