EMERGENCY - FOUND HOLE IN MY HEN WHO HAS BUNCH OF FLUID!!!

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Mountain Life

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Hello - There has been a bloated belly on my hen Jasmine. That was a week ago this past Thursday.
She was so bloated she couldn't get up a step. I took her the vet.
I paid for x-rays to make sure she wasn't egg-bound.
I paid for a sonogram to see how far the fluid had gone.
I paid for a slide on the fluid to see what the fluid was - lots of white blood cells.
The vet charged me and offered to euthanize her for free. She had removed a lot of fluid.
That seemed to make Jasmine more comfortable (so I brought her home to die - vet said cancer and she would die in her own fluids)

and she has been doing well since then.
I have been cutting up fresh garlic in oats, buttermilk, grapefruit seed extract in water a few drops a day.
Today I cleaned out the coop and sprayed with Oxine (I've been doing oxine treatments in the coop the past three nights).
I gave them all baths today.
I just gave Jasmine a bath and rinsed her off and was towel drying her and found this chunk of hardened junk on her back right leg. I pulled it off and under it was more of fluid - it doesn't smell bad - but it's green and this is where the fluid in her belly is starting from. What can I do????

I can't take her back to that vet! Please help!! Thank you!!!

This explains why antibiotics have only worked while she is on them!!!!
If this were human wouldn't it have to be drained, kept open to heal???
 
If the puss keeps coming back, put gnaws on it and that's should let it drain and keep it clean. If the vet said cancer though, there might not be a good chance she'll live.
 
the vet never even found this spot/hole - even with an exam, an x-ray and a sonogram so I doubt her diagnosis of cancer is correct. If the fluid around her abdomen is from this spot, should I squeeze and drain it? Or will the gnaws draw it out even though it's an open hole?
 
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You'll want to get the puss that's there out now, if it'll drain let it but other wise you should squeeze it. After that, the gnaws will kinda absorb the puss and that's why you have to use new gnaws often.
 
I can't find gnaws anywhere.

It's not really puss though - it's kind of greenish brown goop. It makes a brown cork-like scab - it comes off easily, but I'm keeping it moist now with antibiotic ointment. I know having it open yesterday did bring some of the swelling down so the fluid must have come out. I just wouldn't know how to squeeze it since it's not like a normal abscess where it is white pus until the blood comes out??? I know it hurts her though too. Is there any numbing agent I can get over the counter to help her a little bit?
 
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The neosporin is keeping it moist and it's staying drained so I'm not going to use the drawing salve - although I got some.
I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing and hope she gets better. Sent the photos and note to the vet, didn't hear anything back yet?
 
BTW - thanks - you're the only one who responded on a site that says it has 1,000's of members. So much for a chicken loving community????
 

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