HELP!!!Does she have an infected crop maybe???!!!

[HortonCreek]

I think it’s been covered about checking if the crop empties overnight but if it makes you feel any better we get a random hen doing that on some nights and haven’t yet found any correlation to a health issue. It reminds me a lot of how my parakeets used to say “I love you!” Except they would actually regurgitate seed and then shake to fling it all over. So my own hypothesis has been maybe like an over full crop or maybe some junk caught up in their throat. Has this been a chronic issue? Does she do this any other time?

 

[azygous]

Yes. That's the stuff you want.

The purpose of the concentrated calcium is undermined by diluting the tablet in water. She needs the entire tablet all at once.

I understand the stress of dealing with an uncooperative patient. Believe me, the few chickens of mine that seem to hate me are the ones most likely to become patients in need of my help. This is a proven corollary - because they hate to be handled, they are the least handled so if they have a health issue, it's usually late in the illness or injury that they get noticed.

To deal with a chicken that is willing to fight to the death rather than let me treat her, I wrap her securely in a large towel to immobilize wings and feet. Those appendages are what an angry chicken uses to try to free herself. For one real spit fire, I add an ACE bandage wrapped around the towel so she's as good as encased in a strait jacket.

This usually takes all the fight out of her, and I then unceremoniously pry open her beak and shove the pill inside. Done! Chickens have zero problem swallowing large pills. If you need to know why it's so easy for them when it's hard for us humans, it's because we have teeth and they don't. We need to chew what we eat to get the digestive process started. Chickens don't. Their digestive process begins after they swallow.

 

[Annalyse]

I think it’s been covered about checking if the crop empties overnight but if it makes you feel any better we get a random hen doing that on some nights and haven’t yet found any correlation to a health issue. It reminds me a lot of how my parakeets used to say “I love you!” Except they would actually regurgitate seed and then shake to fling it all over. So my own hypothesis has been maybe like an over full crop or maybe some junk caught up in their throat. Has this been a chronic issue? Does she do this any other time?

Thank you lol and no issues as far as I have told/seen. Fisrt time I'm seeing it

 

[Annalyse]

Update: does the crop look like a ball lined of under her chest feathers? Because if so I found it. I feels "soft" in a way if you know what I mean something like that and squishy. Is it supposed to feel like that? I saw her eat and drink but she wouldnt eat the oyster shell when I showed it to her idk if she needs to or not. She stopped doing that thing with her opening her mouth. She seems fine. The coop stunk from all the poop they did. I caught her walking and squatting like she was gonna lay an egg but didnt and she just walked normally away. Should I still give her a tablet?

 

[aart]

Is this the same bird that was 'wheezing'?

 

[Annalyse]

Is this the same bird that was 'wheezing'?

Dont exactly know because I have 2 plymouths and never checked which one was "wheezing".

 

[azygous]

Yes, give the calcium tablet. And I don't quite understand if "all the poop they did" means this chicken pooped a lot. Can you get a photo of her poop?

 

[Annalyse]

Yes, give the calcium tablet. And I don't quite understand if "all the poop they did" means this chicken pooped a lot. Can you get a photo of her poop?

Sorry I meant my whole flock pooped alot. Her poop looks fine (normal). I checked

 

[Annalyse]

I'm going to pick up the tablets in the afternoon and give it too her tonight if that's fine?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Update: does the crop look like a ball lined of under her chest feathers? Because if so I found it. I feels "soft" in a way if you know what I mean something like that and squishy. Is it supposed to feel like that? I saw her eat and drink but she wouldnt eat the oyster shell when I showed it to her idk if she needs to or not. She stopped doing that thing with her opening her mouth. She seems fine. The coop stunk from all the poop they did. I caught her walking and squatting like she was gonna lay an egg but didnt and she just walked normally away. Should I still give her a tablet?

How much ventilation do you have in your coop? Do you have it shut up tight because of cold weather?