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thechickenweirdo
In the Brooder
- Oct 1, 2021
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She hadn't eaten in a couple days so it was hard to tell. However she ate some yesterday and I just checked her crop and it is empty.Is her crop emptying overnight?
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She hadn't eaten in a couple days so it was hard to tell. However she ate some yesterday and I just checked her crop and it is empty.Is her crop emptying overnight?
Not that I know of... I am currently renting and they have half an acre to free range within a fenced in area. I live in a very rural part of North Carolina where people used to just bury their trash in the ground. Sometimes the girls dig up trash but I remove it immediately. The trash they find is usually plastic wrappers or beer cans and tops. I have never found anything that I was worried was a big contaminant. I also did a soil sample test that I sent to the state lab before I put them in that area to make sure it was safe. No contaminants came back.Do you have anything with lead in your garden? For example maybe in old paint or soil?
This hen was the first of my flock to lay-- she laid every single day for a couple weeks before the other girls did. They were always very strong shells and often were double yolks at the beginning but then were normal. She always laid really tiny eggs though, and my other girls laid tiny eggs to start that eventually got bigger, and hers stayed small, then she stopped laying. I had another easter egger who laid shell-less/goopy eggs for a couple months before starting to lay hard eggs, but now she lays totally normal eggs.Each morning it would be good to feel of her crop to make sure that it empties overnight. Some young chickens can have reproductive infections or disorders that may not be treatable. The way she stands is common for a sick chicken. When she was still laying in August, did you ever notice any shell-less eggs? When you have a sick hen with an unknown illness like this, and cannot see a vet, it might be good to worm her with the Valbazen, and perhaps give her an antibiotic such as Aqua Mox fish amoxicillin 125-250 mg twice a day for 10 days, in case of a reproductive infection.
I appreciate the honesty... I had a lot of hope at the beginning of all of this and have had less hope as the days go on. I just want her to be comfortable and not in pain, and if her passing on is the only way for that to happen I will accept that. I want to do everything I can to try and help her though. I don't care if she never lays an egg again! She's my "pet" of the flock- I just want her to be well, or be at peace. I have been feeding her some electrolyte/sugar water, which is really the only way she's been getting liquids.I fear this girl is on the brink of death. Sorry to sound so grim. In an attempt to buy her some time while you try to figure it out, if her crop is empty, would you be willing to try tube feeding her fluids?
No ita fine, dont worry!Yes, I'm so sorry I did not ignore those intentionally... I'm brand new to this site and this is my first time posting! I didn't even see until now that I could click to go to different pages
Im so sorry,I appreciate the honesty... I had a lot of hope at the beginning of all of this and have had less hope as the days go on. I just want her to be comfortable and not in pain, and if her passing on is the only way for that to happen I will accept that. I want to do everything I can to try and help her though. I don't care if she never lays an egg again! She's my "pet" of the flock- I just want her to be well, or be at peace. I have been feeding her some electrolyte/sugar water, which is really the only way she's been getting liquids.
The turquoise colour of her poop makes me suspect tht she might have ingested some rat/mice poison.
I do not use poisons/sprays/pesticides/etc. of any kind. I am very strong in my values of using all natural things, even in my garden I'd rather lose an entire crop than spray some toxic chemical. I live in a very rural area and my closest neighbor is a quarter mile away. Unless it could've been a residual amount of rat/mouse poison from someone who lived here years ago?The turquoise colour of her poop makes me suspect tht she might have ingested some rat/mice poison.
Did you or your neighbour put out some rodent poison lately? If so, she would need vitamin K to stop the effect of the anticoagulant.