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- Mar 22, 2019
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Hi all,
I am hoping someone can help me figure out what is going on with my chicken. Libby is a 3 year old barred rock. She, along with the rest of my flock went through a heavy molt back in the fall and stopped laying eggs. Libby hasn’t layed since early October and was laying well before that. My chickens are fed a good quality layer pellet and they also free range all day. I had started to notice her slowing down in early December. She started to have very watery poops with green in them. I noticed she was eating a lot of grass and not the layer pellets. I put ACV in their water and noticed an improvement. Last week I saw her start to stay back from the flock. She would free range on her own and sit quite a bit puffed and with her eyes. I began to notice that her comb and wattles were shrinking and looked almost like paper. I live in Ontario and our winter temps have been sitting at around -5 degrees so I brought her inside about 3 days ago. She has been on a vitamin and electrolyte mix. I have given her yogurt and sunflower seeds as well as mashing her pellets up with water. She does nothing but eat and drink all day. She empties her water dish 3 times a day. Her poop is very runny with scant amounts of solid poop and high amounts of the white uric acid. I did see her vomit twice too. She sleeps when she is not eating. Her comb and wattles look better but still look floppy. She hasn’t really gotten any better but she hasn’t gotten worse either. I can feel her keel bone protruding. Her crop feels fine her, her vent looks fine but her bum is messy from the diarrhea. She has no fluids coming from her eyes or nostrils. Her breathing is slow and easy. I did not see any mites or lice, her feather look pretty good actually. All my other chickens are fine. I feel like this is not something that is contagious. More of an organ failure problem or tumour issue?
Any thoughts?
I am hoping someone can help me figure out what is going on with my chicken. Libby is a 3 year old barred rock. She, along with the rest of my flock went through a heavy molt back in the fall and stopped laying eggs. Libby hasn’t layed since early October and was laying well before that. My chickens are fed a good quality layer pellet and they also free range all day. I had started to notice her slowing down in early December. She started to have very watery poops with green in them. I noticed she was eating a lot of grass and not the layer pellets. I put ACV in their water and noticed an improvement. Last week I saw her start to stay back from the flock. She would free range on her own and sit quite a bit puffed and with her eyes. I began to notice that her comb and wattles were shrinking and looked almost like paper. I live in Ontario and our winter temps have been sitting at around -5 degrees so I brought her inside about 3 days ago. She has been on a vitamin and electrolyte mix. I have given her yogurt and sunflower seeds as well as mashing her pellets up with water. She does nothing but eat and drink all day. She empties her water dish 3 times a day. Her poop is very runny with scant amounts of solid poop and high amounts of the white uric acid. I did see her vomit twice too. She sleeps when she is not eating. Her comb and wattles look better but still look floppy. She hasn’t really gotten any better but she hasn’t gotten worse either. I can feel her keel bone protruding. Her crop feels fine her, her vent looks fine but her bum is messy from the diarrhea. She has no fluids coming from her eyes or nostrils. Her breathing is slow and easy. I did not see any mites or lice, her feather look pretty good actually. All my other chickens are fine. I feel like this is not something that is contagious. More of an organ failure problem or tumour issue?
