Advice needed NOW!!!!!

[homesteadingcowgirl]

here's one-Don't break the egg if that is what's going on with her.

http://groups.msn.com/LimitedPoultry/eggboundhen.msnw

 

[Acre of Blessings]

Let me go check on her again and see how she is doing. I'll be back

 

[Acre of Blessings]

O.k. Just got back from checking on her. I pulled up her tail feather and she had passed a small amount of poop. Didn't see anything that pertained to a small worm (I was looking with my naked eyes).

Also I noticed a clear/creamy gooey liquid. Has an egg cracked within her? The liquid look like part of an egg white.

 

[mjelse]

I had this exact problem with a redstar, and it may be the same as in the set of questions about the hen with the fluid-filled belly that meriruka posted.

A had a hen at the vet when she started gasping and quickly went purple. The vet told me to get her on her feet, that her abdomen was filled with fluid and that the fluid-filled abdominal cavity was pressing on her lungs. Birds, he said, have no diaphragm. In us that is a thick muscular wall that separates the abdominal and chest cavities.

I supported the hen on her feet, holding her under her ribs so that I did not press on her belly. Her breathing returned to normal, her color returned to normal. She actually lived a good year or so after that and then the same condition got her again.

Check the belly. If it is distended, get the pressure off her belly. If she is lying on it that might be the problem. Check the thread on the hen with the fluid in her belly if it seems that might be your problem.

 

[homesteadingcowgirl]

good luck, let us know how it goes!!

 

[Acre of Blessings]

I am about to go and check on her again. Just got back form the emergency room with my oldest daughter. She messed up her knee while playing basketball. No, not broken or dislocated, just bruised really bad.

 

[homesteadingcowgirl]

Raining and pouring at your house, huh, Blessings? How is the hen?

 

[Acre of Blessings]

Just went out to give her some wormer in case that was the issue. Well, I had given her just a little when suddenly she jumped from the area that I had her at and she fell next to our bicycles. She then jumped and flapped her wings profusely and she got her head between the spokes in the bike wheel and broke her neck while flapping around.

I will be doing a necropsy soon to find the real reason all of this happened. I am

to my stomach that I have lost a bird and can't figure out why, as of yet.

I will let you know my findings as soon as I can. Thanks for all the help you all were trying to give. That's one good thing about BYC, when bad things happen it's good for information latet.

 

[Acre of Blessings]

Went and done the necrospy and and she was eggbound. The egg was actually sorta sideways and the egg coming up behind that was was busted. My husband tapped the egg and I asked him to make one more cut upwards and when he did the yolk fromt he other egg that had busted ran everywhere.

I hate that an animal suffered that way in my presence but hopefully the information here will help someone else later.

 

[AHappychick]

sorry about your loss but the experience will probably save other chickens if that makes you feel any better. I cant believe she managed to kill herself, very strange... Sorry again....