Chicken with sour crop and yellow/clear diarrhea

[Pettez66]

Her crop is empty, although the picture shows her chest sticking out. She has perked up, so we gave her sugar water, probiotics and her third dewormer dose. She’s still not eating or drinking and no poop today. We offered scrambled eggs but only looked at it. She’s cooing and moving around more. I will give her more sugar water and dewormer tomorrow and see if I can find some antibiotics for an infection.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

She's not pooping at all?

 

[Pettez66]

She finally pooped last night.

 

[Pettez66]

I was able to interest her in sugar water this morning and she drank on her own quite a bit, but still not interested in food, scrambled eggs or moistened feed that I offered. I gave her another dose of dewormer. I will see if I can talk to a vet today, she may need antibiotics. She’s hanging on so I will do what I can to help her.

 

[Pettez66]

Found a vet, who felt bloodwork. X-rays were needed to get to the source of the problem, and $$$. She wouldn’t give the antibiotic without knowing what was the cause. I’ve decided to euthanize her and have a necropsy done to ensure we don’t have a flock issue.

 

[Pettez66]

Thank you for your help.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Found a vet, who felt bloodwork. X-rays were needed to get to the source of the problem, and $$$. She wouldn’t give the antibiotic without knowing what was the cause. I’ve decided to euthanize her and have a necropsy done to ensure we don’t have a flock issue.

I'm sorry about your hen.

I hope you are able to get some answers through necropsy, if you don't mind, let us know what the results are.

 

[Pettez66]

The necropsy found sporadic and spontaneous tumors throughout, primarily in oviductal or intestinal pancreatic origin. She was quite emaciated and a very sick chicken. We know this can happen more frequently in older chickens. We now more information for our flock and what to look out for. Thank you again!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

The necropsy found sporadic and spontaneous tumors throughout, primarily in oviductal or intestinal pancreatic origin. She was quite emaciated and a very sick chicken. We know this can happen more frequently in older chickens. We now more information for our flock and what to look out for. Thank you again!

Poor thing!
I'm glad you were able to get more information. Thank you for the update.