HELP! Dying chicken??

[Berhobbit]

Is this a dying chicken? I love her and I want to know how to help! She is very pale, will gasp suddenly and wont eat or drink. What do I do?

 

[DobieLover]

Sorry your girl isn't feeling well. Please provide more details to help determine what might be the trouble with her.
How old is she and how long have you had her?
What do you feed your chickens?
What does her crop feel like?
Have you brought any new chickens to your property recently?
Is she laying and if so, when did she last lay an egg?
What does her poop look like?
When did her symptoms start?

 

[Berhobbit]

Sorry your girl isn't feeling well. Please provide more details to help determine what might be the trouble with her.
How old is she and how long have you had her?
What do you feed your chickens?
What does her crop feel like?
Have you brought any new chickens to your property recently?
Is she laying and if so, when did she last lay an egg?
What does her poop look like?
When did her symptoms start?

She is about eight months old, we've hade her for six months, we feed them layer pellet feed, oyster shells/worms every now and then, she is the newest chicken, she laid an egg maybe Saterday? Her poop is a dark green. Her sypmtoms started sunday.

She is also an olive egger. The only chickens we've lost have been easter eggers! Is there any correlation?

 

[DobieLover]

Has she been puffed up and lethargic?
How is she walking?
Does her belly feel swollen?
If she hasn't laid an egg in 4 days she may be having some trouble with her oviduct. Could she be egg bound or struggling to pass a soft shelled egg?

 

[Matt_onthemt]

Matt here..in cahoots with Berhobbit.

She hasn’t walked much. We have her inside in a brooder box..keeping her away from the bullies. The other hens have recently been picking on her. Any time we’ve taken her out, she doesn’t go far. Also no sign of a soft egg or otherwise being eggbound.

She is kinda puffed up. It’s also long past her bedtime. Might have to wait for the morning to see how she operates when it’s light out

 

[Matt_onthemt]

There is a little white discharge stuck to her feathers under her vent

 

[LilMissChick]

I’m too new to chickens to be able to offer help, but I am sending good thoughts your way and hope you find out what’s going on and that she gets better!

 

[DobieLover]

There is a little white discharge stuck to her feathers under her vent

Can you please post a picture of this?

@Eggcessive , @azygous , @casportpony , @Texas Kiki

Please join in if you can.

 

[azygous]

The very first thing in the morning, you need to feel her crop. If it feels full and round and squishy like a sponge, she probably has sour crop. That can make a chicken feel very sick, and she won't feel like eating much. That makes her poop full of bile which is green.

If you feel a hard lump in her crop tomorrow morning, she likely has an obstruction. That is treated differently from a sour crop. So it's important to do this crop check.

If her crop is flat against her chest in the morning, she has something else going on. Just as a doctor will ask you lots of questions when you go to the clinic because your feel sick, we need information, too. Call it gathering clues.

Here are some more questions in addition to what @DobieLover asked.
1-Was she free ranging on Saturday or early Sunday when she began to act sick?
2-Was she in a compost pile where there have been spoiled veggies or fruit tossed?
3-Where do you live? Is it warm and humid?
4-Is she having trouble with her balance? Does she wobble and try to balance with a wing held out?
5-Any bubbling around her eyes?
6-Any crackly sounds when she breathes?

Take these one at a time and answer each one. It's the only way we can come up with some idea of what could be wrong with her. Then maybe we can get her well.

 

[Matt_onthemt]

1-yes. She stayed in a thicket of wooded growth much of the day

2-only what produce trimmings we toss them periodically

3-we’re in the Denver area. Mostly very dry but there was the bomb cyclone last Wednesday

4-I just took her out of the box and set her down. A slight wobble that made her look off balance

5-no bubbling but her left eye is staying closed more than her right

6-no cracking sounds