HI all!
Been a while since I've been on here. Working 2 jobs to support car insurance, etc.....
Have been treating a 4.5 year old Rhode Island Red hen, approx weight NOW is 2lbs. She's emaciated to the point where no muscle at all can be felt along the keel bone. Been treating her for past 2.5 months for what was initially sour crop. She was lethargic (of course) and had her head tucked in. Dont know why she developed it in first place. Brought her in to garage in dog crate. Wormed her, treated for cocci, right off the bat. Condition didn't improve. Poop had that strange smell that they get from yeast infection, so I began treating with Monastat 7, and gave Dulcolax to try to clear out crop, intestines, of yeast. Continued this treatment for several days, several times a day with the Monastat. Once a day with Dulcolax. She didn't have much of an appetite when I first brought her inside. Gave crushed up Cheerios at first, would eat that and bits of pretzel. Thats all. Hence the emaciated state. Finally developed a better appetite so I added minced up broccoli florettes (just flowers). She continued to improve.She is now eating her chicken feed. For the past two days, I have gone to check her and found the quart waterer empty. Which I blamed on her just knocking over the waterer, though strangely, the floor and newspaper didn't seem soaked just a little wet. Yesterday, I observed what appeared to be floppy piles of chicken feed. Which I thought strange. Today there are several there. There has also been watery feed in the bottom of the waterer tray. Now I believe that she is drinking copious amounts of water and filling her crop to the extent that when she puts her head down, it all comes up and out.
She had only been pooping small quantities of poo. I saw today that there were still those small poops, with a little nitrates on them. I also saw 2 cecal poops. The first in the 2.5 months since she had been brought inside.
My concern is the vomiting. Can she have a blockage and still poop/pass cecal poops?
Is there no blockage, but are her kidneys failing and she is drinking large quantities due to this, and it is causing her to vomit? Should she be euthanized?
She is alert, and talking up a storm scratching in her cage, wanting to escape, etc.
She is impossible to catch. Im not even sure that she has gained any weight. In the beginning when I caught her to bring her in, she could only run so far, then would fall down and lay on her side. I have been hesitating chasing her down, only to have that happen again, as I was afraid to cause her a stroke or heart failure.
I have been lax in my attention to my hens. I have been working so much, and trying to keep up with normal household activities, that I have been relying on my other family members to do so, and they just aren't as observant as I am. I am afraid that this poor girl is beyond my help now, but would love to hear otherwise.
Been a while since I've been on here. Working 2 jobs to support car insurance, etc.....
Have been treating a 4.5 year old Rhode Island Red hen, approx weight NOW is 2lbs. She's emaciated to the point where no muscle at all can be felt along the keel bone. Been treating her for past 2.5 months for what was initially sour crop. She was lethargic (of course) and had her head tucked in. Dont know why she developed it in first place. Brought her in to garage in dog crate. Wormed her, treated for cocci, right off the bat. Condition didn't improve. Poop had that strange smell that they get from yeast infection, so I began treating with Monastat 7, and gave Dulcolax to try to clear out crop, intestines, of yeast. Continued this treatment for several days, several times a day with the Monastat. Once a day with Dulcolax. She didn't have much of an appetite when I first brought her inside. Gave crushed up Cheerios at first, would eat that and bits of pretzel. Thats all. Hence the emaciated state. Finally developed a better appetite so I added minced up broccoli florettes (just flowers). She continued to improve.She is now eating her chicken feed. For the past two days, I have gone to check her and found the quart waterer empty. Which I blamed on her just knocking over the waterer, though strangely, the floor and newspaper didn't seem soaked just a little wet. Yesterday, I observed what appeared to be floppy piles of chicken feed. Which I thought strange. Today there are several there. There has also been watery feed in the bottom of the waterer tray. Now I believe that she is drinking copious amounts of water and filling her crop to the extent that when she puts her head down, it all comes up and out.
She had only been pooping small quantities of poo. I saw today that there were still those small poops, with a little nitrates on them. I also saw 2 cecal poops. The first in the 2.5 months since she had been brought inside.
My concern is the vomiting. Can she have a blockage and still poop/pass cecal poops?
Is there no blockage, but are her kidneys failing and she is drinking large quantities due to this, and it is causing her to vomit? Should she be euthanized?
She is alert, and talking up a storm scratching in her cage, wanting to escape, etc.
She is impossible to catch. Im not even sure that she has gained any weight. In the beginning when I caught her to bring her in, she could only run so far, then would fall down and lay on her side. I have been hesitating chasing her down, only to have that happen again, as I was afraid to cause her a stroke or heart failure.
I have been lax in my attention to my hens. I have been working so much, and trying to keep up with normal household activities, that I have been relying on my other family members to do so, and they just aren't as observant as I am. I am afraid that this poor girl is beyond my help now, but would love to hear otherwise.