swollen abdomen

  1. Theduckchicklady

    Swollen chick belly?!

    out of all my chickens o have never had this happen before, I have a chick she is about three weeks old and up till now has been perfectly fine, still acting completely fine, eating drinking flapping around with her mates and fighting me when I try to pick her up as chicks do.... but her lower...
  2. T

    Is my hen bloated??

    I have a Black Sex Link hen that is about 3 years old. She just recently stopped laying eggs. I noticed her walking really weird and her abdomen is really swollen and it is squishy. Her vent is clear, but her poop is yellow. She has been eating and drinking but she is not pecking around as much...
  3. Katyshenpen

    Help! Large swollen abdomen on my new rescue hen

    Hi, I rescued 5 girls from a hen rescue today and when I got the girls home, I noticed that one had a rather swollen back end! Does anyone know what this could be!? I am totally stumped as I am a first time chicken owner! Any advice would be great! Thanks!
  4. chloeonz

    Day-old chick yolk absorbtion trouble

    Hi, i asked this question this morning but didn’t get an answer. One of my chicks that struggled hatching has a large belly, it was really swollen the day it hatched and could hardly walk properly with a huge thing between the legs. Today (day 2) swelling has gone down and its walking better...
  5. jonalisa

    Help please on possible egg bound hen

    Hi, my black Australorp, Agatha, presented this morning with a messy backside. I brought her in for a warm bath, and pulled out a piece of soft shell sticking out of her vent. I added Epsom salt to the water and cleaned her, realizing her entire abdomen is hard and swollen. I checked about an...
  6. kevinmaysie

    Help with EYP or Ascites?

    Hello! Advice needed! Not sure if my hen has EYP. Found her lethargic Wednesday night. So I separated her and next morning discovered her abdomen swollen and very hot. Drained fluid yellowish color about 200 cc. Gave her electrolytes in water. Next day she’s still not up and would always just...
  7. mystic_chickens

    Help! Chicken with red tummy / swollen abdomen

    We need help for our hen Ophelia. She's a classic laying hen, part of a flock of 6. We feed them ~90% layers pellets with occasional scraps and crack. Water and food always available, and we run garlic and apple cider in the water every second fill. The flock free range for ~3hrs a day, and have...
  8. J

    Hard, huge swollen abdomen on hen

    Hello. My friends Rhode Island Red is about 5 and has developed an incredibly enlarged, swollen abdomen (in the rear, from her vent to her legs). She is out of town and called me when the pet sitter said there were issues, so I’m not sure exactly when it started but it can’t have been more than...
  9. aprilbos

    Hen having Vent and respritory symptoms, bumble foot debating antibiotic treatment

    I have a 15 month old buff Orphington hen. I noticed her limping 4 days ago and has bumble foot. I'm cleaning, soaking in Epsom salt, and wrapping it after applying blu kote and drawing salve. a layer of black scab was already half hanging off and came off on its own or with her help. I need...
  10. G

    Help! Hen with hard, swollen belly, has just had mites

    My neighbors have just had a very, very bad infestation of mites for which we used ivermectin drops and diatomaceous earth, but one hen has a pale comb and a very hard, swollen belly. The mites (northern fowl mites I think) were all over her, the worst I've ever seen, but the drops and the...
  11. hobbychickenfarms

    2 Hens died; third hen same symptoms; swollen abdomen, messy bottom

    Hello! I could use some help identifying something going on with my hens. I have lost 2 hens to whatever this is and now a third is showing the same symptoms. The two that died were 2 year old hens, one golden comet and a white leghorn. The one with the same symptoms is also a 2 year old...
  12. Jessica01

    Is she on the way out? Swollen, off her food and not moving much :(

    Continuing on from an earlier thread, one of my girls is going downhill. She an ex-battery hen and was the slowest to recover after the cages but she's tough and has been doing really well until recently. She's probably around 3. Her symptoms are a swollen belly (waterballoon like) and isn't...
  13. S

    3 Sick Hens, 1 Of Which Has Stuck Broken Egg? Please Help.

    Hello everyone! I was wondering if I could have some advice for three of my hens. One of them is an Americana, she will be 5 years old later this month and still lays regularly. However she also regularly needs our help getting the eggs out. This morning when we went out, she was standing under...
  14. chickenreyna

    lost one out of three couple week old chicks. messy bottom swollen abdomen

    I googled it and it said to check the vents daily in baby chicks due to them getting clogged up or watch for warning signs before its too late.. :/ Now, im watching the other two very closely to make sure they dont get constipated, look swollen or messy bottoms. Does anyone have any advice...
  15. UnbakedPegga

    More pictures

    I can’t find my previous post about my year old Orpington hen that for the last 2-3 months has had this swollen bald area below her vent. She eats well, she is active and last laid an egg 3 days ago. She is having a soft molt and no one else was laying but her. Tonight I went to the coop to...
  16. C

    Chicken is unwell and has very swollen abdomen

    Hi, I look after 11 chickens, 1 rooster and 4 geese (they are not mine). I am in Australia. 2 chickens are unwell. First chicken is a dark grey chicken, we'll call her Charcoal Chicky. She is a large-ish chicken. This is the fifth day she has been unwell. On the first day I noticed she wasn't...
  17. Emy

    Swollen abdomen, low amount of droppings.

    Hi everyone, My almost 1 year old silver wyandotte has a swollen soft abdomen and isnt pooping as much as usual. She is eating like normal, is acting perfectly fine and doesn't seem bothered of I gently massage her abdomen. She laid an egg two days ago, and about 12 hours after that laid a very...
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