Changed question to: End stage liver disease?

[Sylver Queen]

Hello!

My beloved bird is old, I know she's likely not going to make it anyway. But I thought I'd put this out there for the information for the future. Got an Easter Egger who just turned 11 and she's been ailing for a month or so now with yellow urates that have now turned more of a green. The rest of the stool is a very dark color. She's lost appetite for most of her regular food, so I've been feeding her whatever she wants just to get calories in and basically giving her palliative care. She's been slowly shrinking for the last month with a very slow crop, but now I can't get the food to move through with manual palpation either, so I'm wondering if it's possible there are actually worms clogging the works since there's nothing noticeably "wrong" with her apart from lack of appetite, slow/sour crop and poor stools? Also possible it's cancer, and I just necropsied one of my other hens who died of unrelated causes (fatty liver, oops ) and she had zero noticeable signs of parasites in her entire digestive tract. Just wondering if anyone has heard of parasites localized in the proventriculus but not present in any other flock members or stools?? Or even recognizing the symptoms as cancer? She has no swelling anywhere on her body except for her now swollen crop. Lightweight all over from lack of appetite, no ascites, comb is slightly pale but not bad, feathers are perfect.

Thanks for any info!

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Sounds like liver disease to me with yellow urates and dark poo.
Sadly, I think this is close to the end.
LofMc

 

[Sylver Queen]

Sounds like liver disease to me with yellow urates and dark poo.
Sadly, I think this is close to the end.
LofMc

Thank you! May I ask what kind of liver disease? I'm only familiar with fatty liver and it's definitely not that since she's so thin. Unless she could have gotten too heavy at one point and it damaged her liver and this is the end result? She's had a slow crop for different reasons throughout the last year and I've always treated it and then she recovered well. But this time it isn't happening. Maybe digestion stops with end stage liver disease?

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Could be liver cancer or simply heart failure that has compromised the liver too. As they get really old systems just shut down.

 

[Sylver Queen]

Could be liver cancer or simply heart failure that has compromised the liver too. As they get really old systems just shut down.

Ahh, this makes sense, and kind of what I was thinking. It's just her time. Thank you for the reply!

Picture just cuz I love my girl and am convinced she's at least tied for the best chicken ever created.