Help -- Sick chicken

[owl]

Help, one of our chickens is really sick. she is really lethargic and weak, and has clear fluid dripping out of her mouth. Any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks

 

[JewellFarm]

Does her crop feel all mushy? If it is do a search on impacted/sour crop.

 

[nzpouter]

first thing you do... isolate and keep warm.

 

[owl]

Hi, how can I tell if her croup is mushy?

 

[owl]

I was feeling around the croup, and fluid kept coming out of her mouth, and then she started spasming, and then we lost her.

I think she actually must have injured her neck somehow. When I was feeling her neck when we first brought her in, it seemed "lumpy" on the left side. She was holding is funny when we found her, and then it just hung.


I suspect she had cracked it, and then when I manipulated it, it did the final damage.

She was a wonderful pet, very friendly. We trimmed off some feathers to keep, and we will bury her tomorrow.

Thanks for your concern.

- Carol

 

[dlhunicorn]

Sorry you lost her...
"drooling" and loss of control in the neck can indicate botulism.

 

[owl]

Thanks for your condolences. Do you have any thoughts on where she could have gotten into something with botulism? They've been on this bag food for a while. My husband will scrub the waterer this afternoon.

- Carol

 

[jjthink]

Food on the ground gone moldy...
Waterers need to be changed a lot - I change water twice daily. Once is probably sufficient.

So sad about your hen

- I'm sorry....

JJ