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Update on Ginger - She's back to her spunky self! After 7 days of antibiotics, we let her free in the backyard (because she was busting to get out of that cage), and I've never seen a happier hen or a longer lasting dust bath! We've been working to get her fattened up (added some fat supplements...

Day 4 of antibiotics - Ginger is doing better lately - her appetite has picked up and her spunk is definitely back, cautiously optimistic but our last hen took a turn post antibiotics, so fingers crossed it was only an infection. Planning on starting dewormer after her last round of AB's.

Hello everyone, thanks for all the advice and tips thus far. I took Ginger to a vet today and he thinks she looks relatively normal besides being dehydrated. I'll be honest, I feel a little silly for thinking she was at death's door, but I guess I'm just a bit sensitive when it comes to dying...

Update: her crop does in fact empty overnight, and she is continuing to poop (although in very small amounts) Treating her now for possible egg binding - tums and soaking her bottom in Epsom salts. She wasn't too sure about the bath at first, but she ended up falling asleep with her feathers all...

I checked on her this morning and her crop emptied overnight and she is pooping. I gave her a couple more tums to hopefully move things along. Still not sure if egg binding is why she's sick. I do think I saw her straining last night, but it isn't a constant effort. The egg is still in the same...

Just gave her a couple tums! Hopefully her illness is only a stuck egg and not something worse, thanks for the advice!

I couldn't tell you, we have too many sex links to keep track of who laid what. She was hanging around in the coop when I found her so maybe she had been trying to lay an egg for a while and became weak/dehydrated in the process? All I know is she didn't lay one this morning, maybe due to the...

Thank you, and no worries. I'll do that tonight and tomorrow and see if it makes a difference.

Hello, I've already posted about my sick chicken, but I had a question, I can feel an egg in Ginger's abdomen, but she isn't swollen or straining, and it isn't near the vent at all - it's right by her pelvis. Could she be egg bound? Should I give her calcium just in case? I'm not sure when she...

No discharge around her nostrils/eyes, she seems pretty normal except for her appetite, the weakness, droopy comb, weight loss, and she's getting picked on by the other hens (which is unusual, as she's higher up in the pecking order)

Seems normal to me - it kind of "crumbles" when you touch it. She only had grass to eat last night. I'll watch her to see if her crop empties tonight. Her belly/vent area doesn't seem swollen so I think I can rule out egg binding. Forgot to mention - the conditions aren't super great for our...

I've been looking for methods to control the poop in our run. Good know that wood nuggets may be better than construction sand. We have a coop over bare earth and boy does it stink!

This evening I found my 2 year old Gold Sex link, Ginger crouched in the corner of the coop, visibly sick with some mystery illness. Another of our chickens, Esperanza, a 2 year old Black Sex Link, passed away of seemingly the same sickness about a month ago. Ginger's symptoms include - droopy...