Felt around her abdomen. It does feel pretty watery...like a water balloon. When I first noticed she wasn't her usual self she was walking like she had a full diaper and when I soaked poo off her fluff butt it felt like some small pieces of egg shell were in there. Didn't try looking at the...
Thank you. She's almost 3 years old but yes, I do feel something else is going on. As I think I stated earlier she developed a strange growth to the left of and below her preen gland late spring last year. For all I know it could have been a cancerous growth. It took until mid-winter with...
Finally got the pictures. One of her feet is all red and inflamed looking now. Wasn't like that before. Since yesterday she's been keeping her toes curled. I did get her to drink about a teaspoon of water and eat a tiny bit of egg...and dropped 3 very fat live mealworms into her mouth...
I've got some penicillin on hand from our goat that recently passed post-bear attack. Can I use that on a chicken? Can I give it to her orally or does it have to be a shot? She's extremely hard to force feed anything via syringe. I'm always afraid of an animal aspirating (20 years ago had a...
We realized one of our hens, Peep, had contracted bumblefoot a couple weeks ago. I began treating with epsom salt soaks, foot massages, wrapping her feet with antibiotic ointment (which actually seemed to worsen her condition because she stopped walking once the bandages were on). I could not...