Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

[ShanaMcS]

My favorite chicken has a very bloated belly. She didn't come down to feed this morning when the others did, although she did a little later. She is walking slow, but not necessarily like a penguin. Her feathers are fluffed up.

I just gave her a sitz bath and inserted my finger into her vent. I did not feel anything. I gave her calcium with her chicken feed and she ate it. I blow dried her afterwards. She never pooped throughout any of this. She may have pooped this morning, but I couldn't tell whose poop was whose. She has been laying very large eggs recently.

What should I do? She is my favorite, sweetest chicken and I don't want anything to happen to her.

 

[ShanaMcS]

She is four years old. There has been a few bloody poops in the coop the last two days, none today. There has been two eggs without a shell in the last month, but I don't know who laid them. It looks like she had some yellowish stuff dribbling out of her vent before I gave her the sitz bath. I took this picture right before her

bath.

 

[Tommie Hockett]

Get some penicillin and get it to her asap. Give the max dose of a 1/2 cc once a day for four days. It is probably egg peritonitis. Give it to her in her muscle not orally

 

[James head]

My favorite chicken has a very bloated belly. She didn't come down to feed this morning when the others did, although she did a little later. She is walking slow, but not necessarily like a penguin. Her feathers are fluffed up.

I just gave her a sitz bath and inserted my finger into her vent. I did not feel anything. I gave her calcium with her chicken feed and she ate it. I blow dried her afterwards. She never pooped throughout any of this. She may have pooped this morning, but I couldn't tell whose poop was whose. She has been laying very large eggs recently.

What should I do? She is my favorite, sweetest chicken and I don't want anything to happen to her.

 

[glassdragonfly]

So sorry for your little hen! It could be an internal laying problem,or Ascites. I have had some experience with Ascites but I don't feel I know enough to advise you. I'm sure others on here will be able to give you better advise. Good luck with your girl!

 

[ShanaMcS]

Thank you, Tammy!!! Here's a picture of her. She is off

by herself.

Get some penicillin and get it to her asap. Give the max dose of a 1/2 cc once a day for four days. It is probably egg peritonitis. Give it to her in her muscle not orally

Is this the right stuff?

 

[Tommie Hockett]

Yes Ma'am that is the stuff. No gaurantees that will fix her but it is better than not doing anything

 

[Tommie Hockett]

Also get some molasses and probiotics. If she isn't drinking or eating mix the two with some water and give it to her through an eye dropper to keep her hydrated.

 

[ShanaMcS]

You are wonderful. Thank you very much for helping me. ( And Penny.)

 

[Tommie Hockett]

No problem. As I said I don't guarantee this treatment to fix her but I have had success with it.