Anorexia and Diarrhea

[ElleSpokane]

I have one crested cream legbar that has not laid an egg in a year. She's two. I thought she had vent gleet and I treated her for it. But she never laid again and she's never been quite right since. I've noticed she was wasting so I put her in her own pen/run and gave her scrambled eggs and probiotics and sort of waited for her to get better or not. She seemed to get better, but she still has runny green stool. I let her out to test if the others would see her as weak and they don't. She eats and drinks, but she's still underweight with this odd stool issue. Any ideas?

 

[DobieLover]

I have one crested cream legbar that has not laid an egg in a year. She's two. I thought she had vent gleet and I treated her for it. But she never laid again and she's never been quite right since. I've noticed she was wasting so I put her in her own pen/run and gave her scrambled eggs and probiotics and sort of waited for her to get better or not. She seemed to get better, but she still has runny green stool. I let her out to test if the others would see her as weak and they don't. She eats and drinks, but she's still underweight with this odd stool issue. Any ideas?

How is her crop function? Full at night (as full as the others) and empty in the morning?
Is her belly swollen between her legs?
If she hasn't laid since her vent gleet problem, she could be laying internally or has some other reproductive issue that may be putting pressure on her GI system causing her to not eat enough. The watery green stool is indicative of not eating enough.

 

[ElleSpokane]

How is her crop function? Full at night (as full as the others) and empty in the morning?
Is her belly swollen between her legs?
If she hasn't laid since her vent gleet problem, she could be laying internally or has some other reproductive issue that may be putting pressure on her GI system causing her to not eat enough. The watery green stool is indicative of not eating enough.

Thanks for getting back to me. She is probably laying internally. I'm taking her to a vet tomorrow. I've got to know for sure. Of course she's my kid's favorite or I'd cull her.

 

[Eggcessive]

You might try to determine if she has any crop disorder or if the crop is not emptying overnight. Try giving her some vitamin B complex 1/4 to 1/2 tablet crushed and spread over her food. It might help her appetite. Offer small amounts of wet chicken feed, scrambled chopped egg, and occasionally some canned tuna, liver, or canned cat food. Sunflower kernels are another good snack. Many of my hens stopped laying early on, and they probably have had internal laying or some other problem. They do seem to have good lives, and hang out with the other chickens. Sometimes we cannot know exactly what is going on until we can do a necropsy on them after death.