Update: from husband
We'd been treating her after having an avian vet professor from Cornell look at her last week for suspected egg peritonitis, due to sick crop, due to a bad order of feed with some corn that wasn't crushed (causing crop and gizzard impactions in some of our birds - she was...
she has passed on, she went unconscious within a min-two and died within 3-4 mins. We have Benedryl, but no way to get it in. No air sac leak, thx for suggesting we check.
My husband is guessing she was just so weak the needle was too much for her OR she had a sensitivity to the drug.
He's...
My husband just administered .25cc Penicillin to a sick chicken in the breast (slightly to the side of the breast bone). He put it in about 1/2 cm, pulled out to ck for blood, clear, injected. She almost immediately went into shock...probably she will be gone soon, but answers for others/next...
Okay, the vet is done and we have answers:
1) Chicken 1 who died 3 days ago (we figured this was unrelated) - impacted gizzard - ate 3 decorative bead gems from the ground (past-owners left them strewn all over the back yard) and we thought we'd gotten them all :(
2) Chicken 2: Silver-Laced...
The vet examined the live (ill) chicken and she has said her body cavity is filled with yellow stuff...we had a chicken die of this a few years ago (isolated case). Can someone remind me of what it's called? It looks like yolks?
Thanks!
She is opening up the other dead chicken now to see if the...
I have looked over all common illnesses and NOTHING fits :(
We are thinking maybe their food is deficient and this is just a nutrient deficiency. Other possibility is a parasite or bug of some type. I'm dosing them with nutri-drench in water (heavy concentration) and going into town for some...
I'm not sure if you edited this or what but I could have sworn you said she was opening her beak and pointing it up like yawning, if so:
Gapes is a disease caused by a parasitic roundworm which is about 5/16ths of an inch long and looks like a fine thread. These pests lodge in the hen's throat...
Okay, we now have 2 hens with this exact condition. What could be slowing digestion and causing these symptoms?
We are calling the vet and trying to get them in asap before we lose the whole flock :(
Almost a year old silver-laced Wyandotte hen.
Three days ago my husband found her lethargic in...
Does anyone have any ideas? We're at a loss...want to save her but no idea what's wrong.
EDIT/UPDATE: Class is over and I had time to research more:
It seems to be that some chickens (and it tends to be EE more often than not oddly enough) are just more susceptible to the heat and they will...
Just discovered our easter eggers wheezing hard, kinda out of nowhere, was fine this morning.
She was laying down under the coop and acting strange. Still eating and running around with the others mostly.
She's about 5 months old.
What is it?! How do we treat it?
I'm sorry I don't have time to...
Nevermind...I see here that Vent Gleet does cause ulceration (edit - and the smell is optional!), so this is certainly what she has. I hope she's not too far gone to save her :(
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/vent-gleet-aka-nasty-chicken-butt
btw, the local Agway, indeed, did NOT...
She just laid an egg last night. It took us 7 hrs to get it out of her. She tore a bit, but not as bad as last time. We had her in Epsom Salts water and were lubing her up.
Here's what we discovered through all this...She has MASSIVE scarring inside. The tissue in the vent that the egg has to...
Right, I didn't want to treat it like Vent Gleet if it wasn't...are you saying that it sounds like it?
We could try it out and see if there's a marked improvement...
*edit* Well, our local Agway has some Nu-Stock so we will get it and treat her and see what that does. We'll stop the...
So, our Light Brahma hen (a year old this spring) has a swollen cloaca and vent area. She's still eliminating but it is soft (not diarrhea) and green-ish sometimes with some bloody lining, pretty normal but not in tube-form. There is gooey clear, white, and yellowish (looks like urine with goo?)...
Hi MissyChickie,
Wondering if your mom/you ever figured out what was going on with Ralphie and if the anti-fungalworked. We have a Light Brahma with almost the exact symptoms Ralphie had and we're not having much luck treating her.
Thanks!
Yeah, same on the lateness....hatched Monday arrived Thursday. I read something about a heating element in the box on their website, but there was none and there were two that looked really bad when they arrived. It was just too much for them with no heat (was a cool week last week) and the...
Well, ill chick died today *sigh
Not for any lack of trying, that's for sure. She died with a full crop, so it was most certainly a birth defect or other something that got her.
The others all seem very healthy and are all eating and lively. We're keeping a close eye on them, feeding them the...