Emergency! Constipated/Eggbound Hen? Please Help! Pics!

[casportpony]

Please read this:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ergency-and-supportive-care-updated-4-11-2016

-Kathy

 

[TwinsLoveChicks]

I'll go check if she has fluid in her stomach right now. I won't bathe her.
Thank you for answering!

 

[TwinsLoveChicks]

So it doesn't feel like there is anything in her crop at all, despite the fact that she has been drinking pretty regularly and taking a peck or two of food occasionally. I also saw her poop. It was green, mushy, almost pellet-shaped poop in a watery yellow fluid. She is tapping her feet every minute or so as well, so do you think that her circulation is being cut off somehow? She is still pretty alert as well. Do you think that she might have been bitten by a spider or something? I'm not sure. It's all very strange.

 

[TwinsLoveChicks]

I will try to get some updated pictures to you on her behavior. She's not standing quite as upright either. Also, she is walking around a little bit. She'll walk a little, stop and rest, then walk a little, etc.
Thanks!

 

[TwinsLoveChicks]

 

[casportpony]

Her crop is not her belly. her belly (abdominal cavity) is the soft area below her vent. The small pelleted shaped poop could mean that she has an obstruction in her intestines or that there is something, like fluid or a mass pressing on her intestines.

-Kathy

 

[TwinsLoveChicks]

Oops.

I will check as soon as I get the chance. (Very soon.)

 

[casportpony]

Oops. I will check as soon as I get the chance. (Very soon.)

I don't want to scare you, but you should know that your hen is very sick and it's probably something that you can't treat. If you have the money, it would be best to have a vet look at her.

-Kathy

 

[TwinsLoveChicks]

I will try, but no vets in my area do birds.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

O that's a shame I have a vet that does birds just about 10 minutes away from me but castportpomy do u know what she is sick with