Collapsed egg hanging out of vent

[rehsanipoor]

Update:
1. This morning her crop felt smaller. Not completely empty but small.
2. She is still drinking a lot.
3. I've been getting her to take a little mash with egg in it, but she's not terribly interested.
4. She is much more active, comes out to free range, scratches and is more "in the mix".
5. Her poop is liquidy, yellowish, and some green.

I will continue with the regimen we've been doing. She is eating, but very little. Anything else to do at this point? Is there anything to gain by bringing her to a vet? I've only used/found one once that saw birds, but he admitted that he doesn't have a whole lot of background with chickens.

 

[azygous]

We won't discourage you from taking the hen to a vet. But there's little they could do that you aren't already doing. Intravenous feeding would be one, but you can tube feed her yourself and accomplish the same thing with less stress for you both.

Have you tried to find plastic tubing and an ample syringe? Oxygen tubing and aquarium tubing work well. Also you can ask your vet for a small animal tub feeding kit.

Have you tried giving her a raw egg? Given unscrambled with the yolk still intact is something all but the sickest chickens will go for. It gets good nourishment and fluids into the sick chicken and after that, the chicken is more likely to want to eat.

Do you have Poultry Nutri-drench? That is a valuable vitamin supplement for sick chickens. I highly recommend getting some for her.

 

[rehsanipoor]

I was at the feed store yesterday and picked up nutri-drench ,thinking it might be a good idea to have as I'd heard about it before. How do I use it?

I didn't get the tubing yet as I thought it was a last resort if she wasn't eating/drinking at all. But I will go ahead and check amazon now.

I had mixed the raw egg into her feed, but I'll try to entice her with an intact one as well.

I'll keep you posted. Thank you again. I'm grateful that am not trying to figure this all out on my own.

 

[rehsanipoor]

Would these work? If I order them now, they will arrive Wednesday. Maybe I won't need it by then???

 

[azygous]

Yes, it will work. You'll likely want to cut the catheter tube down to about nine inches, though. Those catheters are designed to reach the stomach of mammals. Whether or not she will need tubing by the time it arrives, it's still a good thing to have on hand.

 

[rehsanipoor]

Ordered. As for the nutridrench I'm thinking I'll need to put her directly into her beak since she is not reliably eating or drinking much. Does that sound okay? How much should I give?

I did offer her a raw egg (yolk in tact). She only ate the white and wouldn't touch the yolk. After a while I even gently broke the yoke to sneak some of it into the white but she wouldn't take any.

She's always been a finicky eater. Not as interested in soldier flies or other treats that the rest love.

 

[rehsanipoor]

I've never really gotten to the bottom of what the cause of this whole situation was. I have noticed a few of my other girls have poopy buts. And Flo (Florence) who is our medical case for sure has one now. Should I be concerned with worms at all? They've never been dewormed.

 

[azygous]

Us an oral syringe like the one in this photo and draw up the Nutri-drench dose. This will be good practice for tubing, as well. The tube is inserted in the same place in the throat as this syringe is. This way you are assured no liquid gets into the airway at the back of the tongue.

The way I do it, both to insert a syringe and a tube, is to wrap the hen in a towel to secure wings and feet. Pry open the beak and insert the syringe into the right side, going along between the side of the mouth and just slightly under the tongue. That guides you into the esophagus and that goes into the crop.

 

[azygous]

You can have a vet do a fecal float test on a flock poop sample. It will tell you if you need to worm.

 

[rehsanipoor]

When you say a flock sample, does that mean a little from each?