Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I got in the car and traveled westbound.
No, I didn’t bring my chickens.

 

[featherhead007]

I got in the car and traveled westbound.
No, I didn’t bring my chickens. View attachment 3141124View attachment 3141125View attachment 3141125

I had the beach all to myself Tax:

 

[RoyalChick]

After re-reading your post, I realize that I read the treatment I looked up wrong (I thought it said cellulose...not cellulase) Cellulase is an enzyme that helps break down cellulose, no? I wonder if that will actually help Minnie or not. If the blockage is worms, that won't help break them down, will it? Can you put a 'more than normal' dose of ACV in her water to help break down the worms? Or see if she likes caffiene free coke-a cola? I have it stuck in my craw (pun intended) that the deceased worms are what is causing the blockage....due to the timing!

And, though I'm sure less than you, couldn't bear to think that that might cause her demise....too many worms, kill them, and they cause blockage that well... you know.

to the darn (yes, I used a milder term than I was thinking) worms.

Yes indeed. Cellulase is an enzyme that breaks down cellulose - so my logic was that if she has a fibrous grass plug that I can't feel - say in her gizzard - that the cellulase would help dissolve it.
I have also given her Sodium Bicarbonate in her food and ACV in her water in the hope that the bubbles created will dislodge something. That would be what the Coca Cola would do but without me needing to syringe something else into her!
And like you I am very upset at the idea that the blockage may be dead worms. How awful! I wondered whether to give her something like Papaya extract - it acts as a meat tenderizer so would break down the worms - but I was worried with complete blockage it might inflame the lining of her crop so I have held off that.
She does seem to be improving a little bit. More crud is emerging from the other end and her crop was smaller this morning than it was yesterday.

 

[Marie2020]

I got in the car and traveled westbound.
No, I didn’t bring my chickens. View attachment 3141124View attachment 3141125View attachment 3141125

I would LOVE to get to a beautiful beach and soak myself in the sea. It's been so long, sigh

 

[featherhead007]

I would LOVE to get to a beautiful beach and soak myself in the sea. It's been so long, sigh

I wish I could spend the whole weekend here. It’s such fresh ocean air. And the sounds of seabirds. I would like to share this experience with you also. But I’m gonna go get a seafood lunch and head home.

 

[GregnLety]

RIP spring, it was nice while you were here...

 

[featherhead007]

RIP spring, it was nice while you were here...View attachment 3141383

Does anyone have a spatula to scrape @GregnLety off the heat? I think they melted 103 damn that’s hot . Gotta love Texas!

 

[featherhead007]

$ Gas, six twenty a gallon. Highway robbery! I’m almost home, and need my emotional support rooster! (I love you Jaffar, and I will be home soon) just in case he has his iPhone on him.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Yes indeed. Cellulase is an enzyme that breaks down cellulose - so my logic was that if she has a fibrous grass plug that I can't feel - say in her gizzard - that the cellulase would help dissolve it.
I have also given her Sodium Bicarbonate in her food and ACV in her water in the hope that the bubbles created will dislodge something. That would be what the Coca Cola would do but without me needing to syringe something else into her!
And like you I am very upset at the idea that the blockage may be dead worms. How awful! I wondered whether to give her something like Papaya extract - it acts as a meat tenderizer so would break down the worms - but I was worried with complete blockage it might inflame the lining of her crop so I have held off that.
She does seem to be improving a little bit. More crud is emerging from the other end and her crop was smaller this morning than it was yesterday.

That she's pooping more than just liquid is a very good sign I think! That's progress that things are moving at least some.
Do you all really think the wormer worked too well, too fast, and caused a massive die-off? Could she have that big a worm load? It's also just possible that she pigged-out too quickly on dry feed after getting the dewormer, was she fasted for awhile prior to getting it? I read that can happen in chickens, and that giving moistened feed an hour after deworming can help.

 

[RoyalChick]

That she's pooping more than just liquid is a very good sign I think! That's progress that things are moving at least some.
Do you all really think the wormer worked too well, too fast, and caused a massive die-off? Could she have that big a worm load? It's also just possible that she pigged-out too quickly on dry feed after getting the dewormer, was she fasted for awhile prior to getting it? I read that can happen in chickens, and that giving moistened feed an hour after deworming can help.

I think either is possible. The fenbendazole does work pretty much immediately so if she did have a big load then they would all die and could clog her up. The thing against that is that it took two stool samples to find the roundworms - if it was that heavy a worm load you would think they would have shown on the first fecal test.
Equally however because she was under the weather for a while before I got the worm diagnosis she wsa definitely not eating well - for several days she just sat there looking like she would die at any moment - and the day I noticed her crop ballooning she was eating like a crazed beast - just stuffing her face as fast as she could. So it seems equally plausible that the worming medicine killed the worms, made her feel better and therefore hungry and she got in trouble from eating too much too fast.
Either way, poor Minnie!
I am definitely taking the black slime coming out of her rear end as a good sign. I just really keep wishing that my morning inspection would reveal an empty crop.