Does this look like gapeworm symptoms?

[DarrenS2]

Thanks all, the tips of her comb are starting to darken so it looks like the lack of food is starting to have an impact.

 

[theoldchick]

Sounds like her heart is failing. So sorry.

 

[DarrenS2]

Hi all, I thought I should post an update about this hen.
We’d been massaging her crop, and had syringed some coke into her. She’d been living indoors in the warm on her own for a couple of weeks, but the tips of her comb darkened and her body language looked worse. We ended up leaving her in the warm and quite to fade away, with an occasional crop massage. She looked ill but not in pain.

I kept expecting her to die, but every morning she was still there and her comb didn’t droop or look any worse. She’d walk out of her cage when we came downstairs, find somewhere comfortable to sit and spend the day there. When she did poo, it was white liquid, with spots of some black material - I think it was grass that the coke had blackened.

After a couple of days, she started getting up in the mornings and would still do these poos. We didn’t see her drinking but she must have been. She hadn’t eaten grass in at least a week, maybe two, but small lumps of it were still passing through. As she seemed a bit better we started the crop massages again.
We’ve also been making sloppy food for her and she finally started to show an interest in eating it.
So, it’s been about 4 weeks now, she’s dropped from about 3kg to nearer 1kg, but she seems to have turned a corner and is now going out in the daytime.
She’s still not right and when she goes out she only seems to eat grass, but I thought it worth posting a bit of a positive outcome.