Update: She's standing up and walking around. Just got home haven't seen if she's been eating or not though. She sounds louder now too I'm not sure what this means.
Update: She stands up but only for like 30 seconds to 2 minutes at a time. I think she's just too weak. If anyone can put these symptoms together please help me out.
Also when I try mess with her front like feeling around she always rears back like a t rex. Don't know if that's normal behavior but she seems to be rearing back and maybe a little bit uncoordinated. Her left eye is going a little bit lazy but it looks like any swollen eye would.
I didn't find anything that looked unusual and my mom said the vets didn't think there was anything unusual with her beak. When I tried however, she pooped at me I think out of anger haha. I managed to take a picture of it. It also smells like sulfur/rotten eggs if that makes a difference.
I was talking to my mom earlier and they had been vaccinated for Marek's however it's supposed to be done so it shouldn't be that. I don't know what else it could be I'm so upset.
My hen is unable to close her beak and she keeps craning her neck and reaching upward and then retracting. I don't know if this is usual behavior but I just don't want to give up hope so I'll keep posting new symptoms up until we decide what to do. Listed below is a video of said behavior.
She doesn't move, her left eye barely opens and she won't even get onto her feet. Her head bobs up and down like shes trying not to fall asleep I don't know what else to do. When we pick up my dog from the vet I think we're going to talk about how much it costs to euthanize a chicken because...
She's I think probably somewhere between 7 and 9 months old I'm pretty sure. I think we got them online from a farm in Ohio? I'll have to look back and see if I can find out for sure.
We had a hawk scare a few weeks ago where after she got attacked she acted pretty skittish for a few days but then went back to normal so the vet perscribed equisul sulfadiazine/trimeth for any internal infection or whatever. The weird thing is that when I google the medication all that comes...
Gonna be honest, she absolutely hates when I try and open her beak to give her antibiotics, but I'll take a closer look in the morning. As for externally, there aren't any issues that standout, I took the pictures and no one that saw this thread said anything about them so I assume my hen is...
I was thinking something along those lines. When we took her to the vet they said she was eating fine but clearly she wasn't because she has a hard time eating bigger pellets which they didn't notice. I was thinking it's gotta be more along a throat or beak issue because if it was respiratory...
It's basically non existant. Her chest is really puffed up which makes it look like shes been eating, but her crop is tiny because she eats basically nothing all day. Shes on antibiotics and she'll eat occasionally as well as drink, but she doesn't seem to be able to eat bigger pellets and she...
Update, the left eye is swollen shut, her other eye is a little better but for the most part she has a hard time opening her eyes or just doesn't want to. When she does she can keep them open just fine but I have to coax her to open her eye.
She's drinking water and eating food, struggling with both. She spills some water while shes drinking and she sometimes has slight wheezing while breathing but its very very quiet. I'll upload some pictures so hopefully I can shed better light on what she's going through.
They did not, I think they just did an external exam which is the problem because she looks fine for the most part. The combs and wattles are still red colored and look fine. The exception being her eye she looks fine everywhere else. I live in Maryland its currently 32 outside but we've kept...