Help! I think my hen ate pebbles???

[DWok]

Thank you, I very much appreciate you, your openness, and your attitude! You’re why I’ve made it through this day. I just wanted to explain myself as well. I’m going to show you the feeding tube they gave me.

Okay, I just got home to her. She is still with us. She woke up a little bit honestly her crop seems so far down her body. I’ll attach photos of her current state. Please advise on what to do first. I don’t know if we have time to wait until tomorrow to assess honestly. She’s barely alive at all today. No food no water (only that tiny amount of sugar water I forced her to have) she refuses everything and can’t even keep her eyes open. In this photo my boyfriend is holding her feathers up for me but my hands are on the bottom holding her crop which is like a ball slightly smaller than a golf ball right now. It’s just so far down her body, like it’s falling.

 

[DWok]

Is your hen able to drink the sugar water on her own now? If she has not been able to, you may try tubing the sugar water.

I shorten the tube to around nine inches as that's easier for me to deal with alone. If you have help, you can try it the length it is if you like.

If you have poultry vitamins, you can add a dose to the sugar water, and if the hen is perking up, you can add a raw egg to this solution. Getting nourishment into her will help stabilize her.

Okay I’m going to work on this now. She hasn’t been willing to have anything in her own, I had to gently force her beak open to even get a tiny dropper of it down.

 

[DWok]

Okay I’m going to work on this now. She hasn’t been willing to have anything in her own, I had to gently force her beak open to even get a tiny dropper of it down.

I just gave her a little sugar water mixed with vitamin supplement. Not very much at all and she didn’t even open her eyes for it. We brought her outside to feel the sun… how long could this go on for worst case scenario if she doesn’t start improving?

 

[The Coop Crew]

I don’t have a ton of advice but I do know that I’ve read many stories where once the hen gets the sugar water solution they will perk up quite a bit. Like @azygous said, the solution is imperative to stabilizing her and giving her more time to find the actual issue.
I am so sorry you’re going through this. Sending prayers and hugs

 

[azygous]

Once a chicken closes their eyes, they're telegraphing that they've given up. Once they lie down on their side, death usually comes within hours.

We look for improvement after giving the sugar water. It's the basic first aid to revive a chicken. If the chicken doesn't revive after given a moderate amount of sugar water, you must assume she may be beyond help.

But tubing the water into her can get the amount into her that can reverse starvation and dehydration, so try again in a bit to get more into her. There's always room for hope until there isn't.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

To give you a bit of hope, there's a thread on here titled

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-to-care-for-him-in-his-last-moments.1608736/

It's rather lengthy but I will tell you the rooster recovered.

 

[DWok]

To give you a bit of hope, there's a thread on here titled

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-to-care-for-him-in-his-last-moments.1608736/

It's rather lengthy but I will tell you the rooster recovered.

Thank you for that hope…I’ll take it until the very last moment. How much sugar water is appropriate? When I opened her mouth she had stickiness from this morning when I gave her some and thought she took it all…I cleaned her mouth with water by giving her a dropper of it before tubing the sugar water. I gave her very little since I can’t find anywhere how much I should administer.

I found a concoction in another thread that mentioned helping her by getting the doughy mass out of her crop, I’m attaching the recipe to see if you think I should do that also or…I don’t even know.

 

[DWok]

Thank you for that hope…I’ll take it until the very last moment. How much sugar water is appropriate? When I opened her mouth she had stickiness from this morning when I gave her some and thought she took it all…I cleaned her mouth with water by giving her a dropper of it before tubing the sugar water. I gave her very little since I can’t find anywhere how much I should administer.

I found a concoction in another thread that mentioned helping her by getting the doughy mass out of her crop, I’m attaching the recipe to see if you think I should do that also or…I don’t even know.

 

[The Coop Crew]

I just found this. Hopefully it helps.

 

[DWok]

I just found this. Hopefully it helps.

Thank you very much.