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guesswhatchickenbutt - Oh that's fabulous! Please share any knowledge you get from the vet. And let me know if I have been doing anything wrong! I might need to revise my video haha. Good luck!
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Our vet was great. I told him I'd been researching online like a madwoman and I suspected it was - and he cut me off and said "egg yolk peritonitis?" I said yeah.... He said he was impressed I'd figured it out online and that he suspected it a month ago when I was describing her symptoms, but hoped it was not because it is uncurable once the symptoms show up.guesswhatchickenbutt - Oh that's fabulous! Please share any knowledge you get from the vet. And let me know if I have been doing anything wrong! I might need to revise my video haha. Good luck!
Well I'm by no means an expert, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but is her abdomen full, spongy and swollen? It took our vet quite awhile to get the liquid to start draining. He said when it's been there awhile it gets clumpy it's hard to suck up through the needle. When he first stuck her he got a small amount of blood, but he said that was from the initial needle stick. The rest of the fluid was yellow-brown and speckled with gunk. It definitely didn't come gushing out like I expected. It took him quite awhile of pulling back and waiting for it to come out. If you used a small gauge needle I doubt you hit something as long as you weren't directly under the vent. She may be stressed and will come around tomorrow... How old are your hens? Good luck with her.I have a RIR, Ruby, that has been having some problems recently and thought she had issues with worms, she became emaciated so I treated my whole bunch with garlic, yogurt and DE. She seemed to be bouncing back, feeling like she had gained a little weight but wasn't laying, or least I didn't think so until recently I have found broken super thin shelled eggs. When I picked her up yesterday she felt swollen.
Today her feathers appear dull and her tail is slightly down and she's not her usual friendly " come running when you see's you" self.
I have read the entire post and decided to drain her. I have a very small gauge needle & syringe, so it took several pokes. The first several
syringes were full of light yellow fluid and only once did I get a darker amber mixed with a bit of blood sample, this was a very small amount. I think I might have hit something?? She did drain slightly on her own and appeared a bit stressed so I stopped. What is heartbreaking to me is she is now hiding from me under the deck. Normally she's the first one to meet me. I hope I haven't made things worst and now she
will avoid me totally.
My group ( 5 total) seem to be on strike, I have only got 2 eggs in about 4 days. We are having beautiful weather so I know that's not it, I think molting could be the issue with 2, do they have sympathy pains? I'm open to any suggestions.