Henfla
Songster
I have a 2,5 year old hen. She have been having trouble laying soft shelled eggs for a very long time (maybe 6 months to a year). I have been giving her extra calcium, but it hasn't helped. I haven't seen her lay an egg in over a month at least. She has been acting normal until this weekend, when I felt something was off. So I felt her abdomen, and I think it was hard and a bit swollen. I had some sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim that I started her on saturday evening, and I went to the vet with her monday. The vet here knows very little about poultry. The vet prescribed baytril, but no pharmacy had it, so I couldn't start with that until today unfortunately. So she has gotten the sulfamethoxazole/ trimethoprim until yesterday.
Monday when I went to the vet I also thought her breath smelled like garlic, and I figured out it had to be sour crop when I came home (but the vet didn't know what it could be when I said she smells like garlic, so didn't start any treatment for that then). On monday she was still eating and her crop felt normal, so she had mealworms with plain yoghurt. Yesterday she drank alot of water in the morning when she was outside with the others, and I took her in from the afternoon because she seemed lethargic. Her crop was very squishy, so I gave her oil and what we call "sour milk" for the bacteria and yeast overgrowth in her crop, and massaged it alot the whole evening. She has been really unwell since yesterday evening.
She hasn't had any foods since yesterday, and she also has stopped drinking and today she is just lying down with her eyes closed all the time. I think her breathing is more heavy than normal.
She's laying beside me on the sofa because she doesn't want to be in the cage alone.
I give her water with ACV in a syringe, and oil and sour milk. Her breath smells normal today, but her crop still has a lot of solid content in it, from monday probably. I think she can't empty her crop properly atm because of the infection she has, and I'm hoping that the antibiotics I gave her today will help her.
Her poop has been white liquid with small bits of green in it since yesterday, and this morning it was very watery.
I am thinking that it seems like the sour milk and ACV is helping for the sour crop, and that I will call the vet and get her some medication for yeast infection if she is still alive tomorrow, but maybe the main focus should be the reproductive infection I think she has. I don't live in america so I don't have miconazole aviailable.
My question is if I should do anything differently?
I still also think her comb and wattles seems pretty normal in colour, and I want to give the antibiotics a shot before considering euthanasia.
Monday when I went to the vet I also thought her breath smelled like garlic, and I figured out it had to be sour crop when I came home (but the vet didn't know what it could be when I said she smells like garlic, so didn't start any treatment for that then). On monday she was still eating and her crop felt normal, so she had mealworms with plain yoghurt. Yesterday she drank alot of water in the morning when she was outside with the others, and I took her in from the afternoon because she seemed lethargic. Her crop was very squishy, so I gave her oil and what we call "sour milk" for the bacteria and yeast overgrowth in her crop, and massaged it alot the whole evening. She has been really unwell since yesterday evening.
She hasn't had any foods since yesterday, and she also has stopped drinking and today she is just lying down with her eyes closed all the time. I think her breathing is more heavy than normal.
She's laying beside me on the sofa because she doesn't want to be in the cage alone.
I give her water with ACV in a syringe, and oil and sour milk. Her breath smells normal today, but her crop still has a lot of solid content in it, from monday probably. I think she can't empty her crop properly atm because of the infection she has, and I'm hoping that the antibiotics I gave her today will help her.
Her poop has been white liquid with small bits of green in it since yesterday, and this morning it was very watery.
I am thinking that it seems like the sour milk and ACV is helping for the sour crop, and that I will call the vet and get her some medication for yeast infection if she is still alive tomorrow, but maybe the main focus should be the reproductive infection I think she has. I don't live in america so I don't have miconazole aviailable.
My question is if I should do anything differently?
I still also think her comb and wattles seems pretty normal in colour, and I want to give the antibiotics a shot before considering euthanasia.