Fluid in chest

[Hddesdemona09]

Hi everyone, I noticed my chicken has not been feeling well for a little bit. She has been sitting down more. I noticed that she had an enlarged area in the front of her chest. It kind of looked like an egg shape on the right side of her breast. Today I went over and I picked her up and I pushed around under her neck, the front of her chest seems to have a lot of fluid in there, I have never seen this before. Sure what it might be. I’m hoping that somebody has seen this and maybe could explain to me what this might be. Thank you.

 

[DonyaQuick]

This sounds like sour crop and/or an impacted crop. An impacted crop can’t empty into the gizzard so food and water stays in the crop. Often it’s caused by ingesting fibrous material or long grass. Slow or impacted crops can also turn into sour crop which is an infection and has bad breath as a symptom.

 

[Eggcessive]

How old is your hen? Do you put out some granite poultry grit to help her gizzard grind up seeds, bugs, and grasses? What do you feed? Does she lay eggs, and have you seen any soft shells? Any pictures that you have of her or her poop would be welcome. I agree, it sounds like her crop may be slow or going sour. How long has she been sick? I would get some Monistat or miconazole yeast/fungus cream from your pharmacy, and give her a 1/2 inch of the cream into her beak twice a day. Offer water with some electrolytes and some watery scrambled egg. Has she been eating and drinking? Check her crop/chest first thing in the morning to see if it feels empty or still full and squishy.

 

[Hddesdemona09]

This sounds like sour crop and/or an impacted crop. An impacted crop can’t empty into the gizzard so food and water stays in the crop. Often it’s caused by ingesting fibrous material or long grass. Slow or impacted crops can also turn into sour crop which is an infection and has bad breath as a symptom.

Ok thank you. Is this something that could kill my chicken. Is there a treatment when i looked at her again it seemed even larger. Is the fliuid feeling food?
Thanks

 

[Hddesdemona09]

How old is your hen? Do you put out some granite poultry grit to help her gizzard grind up seeds, bugs, and grasses? What do you feed? Does she lay eggs, and have you seen any soft shells? Any pictures that you have of her or her poop would be welcome. I agree, it sounds like her crop may be slow or going sour. How long has she been sick? I would get some Monistat or miconazole yeast/fungus cream from your pharmacy, and give her a 1/2 inch of the cream into her beak twice a day. Offer water with some electrolytes and some watery scrambled egg. Has she been eating and drinking? Check her crop/chest first thing in the morning to see if it feels empty or still full and squishy.

Hi have been feeding her purina egg lay pellets. She doesn’t want to get up on the roost and i find her in the egg laying box to sleep i have been taking her iut and putting her on the roost pole thinking she just wants to sleep in there but the realized poor thing not feeling good. I occasionally let them out to forage. I have given a grit haven’t thought about using that. There are some rocks in the outter run thats encaged. Is grit different then small rocks? Im stilling learning about chickens. This hen i think is about 5 or 6. Im not sure is shes still laying. She seemed broody also. She did have some diarrhea that was watery as well as i noticed a few other chickens did too. My son switched there regular feed when he was children sitting. I will post a pic of her tomorrow. Thank you

 

[Eggcessive]

I would check her crop first thing in the morning before she eats or drinks, to see if her crop feels empty and flat. Here is a good thread about crop problems:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

 

[Hddesdemona09]

Her chest was full of fluid. Today i noticed she vomitted brown fluid i pushed a little bit on her crop and a lot of brown fluid came out. She seems even more miserable today