Hey yall, I've spent like an hour reading other posts on here but I'm still not sure what's wrong with my sweetheart, Rosie. She's a 1yr old Sex Link, lays for me every day without missing a beat even during the 5ft of snow we got this winter. Today when I got home I noticed she's acting odd. She usually goes crazy for clovers but won't eat any, she's sitting with her tail kind of drooped down and you can see it pulsate like when she's about to lay an egg only she isn't laying and I think it might have been a few days ago that she stopped because there was only one egg in there today and I didn't collect since sometime earlier this week. Her eyes are bright and alert, she doesn't want me touching on her which is normal, she moves away, but her comb and wattles were pale. When I took her out and she got all flustered they went back to a nice red and appear to be okay now but obviously that wasn't right. She does have a large mushy crop but she has always sort of been that way and there is no smell. She had some darker brown poop stuck to the feathers around her vent but not pasty butt, didn't see anything odd in the pen as far as blood or weird colored poop. I have no idea what's wrong and she's very, very important to us. Does anyone know what is wrong and what should I do? Hubby is bringing her inside for me so I can watch her better. Thanks!
