My hen is 1 1/2 years old, hatchery Australorp/Jersey Giant (either a small JG or an Australorp with yellow feet).
When I went to feed the birds their breakfast she was the only one not interested in food and would not come out of the coop. She just stood in the coop sort of hunched over, slightly fluffed up looking. I put her in a pet carrier indoors.
I made her egg with oregano oil, garlic, red pepper and a dab of ACV.. something that they're used to getting if they appear ill. She didn't eat any of it.
She did drink some Gatorade (it's what I had on hand).
I looked her over, touched her all over, opened her mouth, checked her eyes, her vent etc. She seems to be mid-molt, lots of new feathers still in their pin stage. Her comb is normal in color, a little dry looking, but not unusual. Eyes were clear. Nothing unusual in her mouth. Her crop felt to have some water and sand/gritty substance in it, but not much. Her abdomen feels fairly firm, but I couldn't say for sure if I felt an egg or not. She did feel a bit hot to me. Her vent was not obstructed.
After all the groping she passed some strange poop. Almost neon blue/green and mucuslike.. or seaweed-ey. Hard to describe. They're fed a mash made with water and layer crumble. They get table scraps too, recently they had a few black muscadines, but likely not enough to cause blue poop. They free-range occasionally, and she had been digging in the mulch that is a bit moldy (I've read moldy grain causes blue/green poop).
Anyway, later that night she passed more blue/green poop but this time with white gobs of ..something? Tissue? Egg? They look like white beans. They have no smell. They look sort of like fatty tissue, but are a bit firmer. They squish easily and are the same color on the inside, the texture looks very fleshy to me..
She seems to feel less uncomfortable today, but is still passing this stuff. What the heck is it? Anyone seen this before? I was thinking lash eggs, but that's way too many. Her vent looks like she may not be laying currently, but considering she's appearing to be mid-molt, that's to be expected.
I'm ready to cull her if need be, but I'd rather give her a chance to recover. I don't take my chickens to the vet, as that's not financially doable (they're livestock, not pets, to us. $100-200 vet visit... not gonna happen.)
When I went to feed the birds their breakfast she was the only one not interested in food and would not come out of the coop. She just stood in the coop sort of hunched over, slightly fluffed up looking. I put her in a pet carrier indoors.
I made her egg with oregano oil, garlic, red pepper and a dab of ACV.. something that they're used to getting if they appear ill. She didn't eat any of it.
She did drink some Gatorade (it's what I had on hand).
I looked her over, touched her all over, opened her mouth, checked her eyes, her vent etc. She seems to be mid-molt, lots of new feathers still in their pin stage. Her comb is normal in color, a little dry looking, but not unusual. Eyes were clear. Nothing unusual in her mouth. Her crop felt to have some water and sand/gritty substance in it, but not much. Her abdomen feels fairly firm, but I couldn't say for sure if I felt an egg or not. She did feel a bit hot to me. Her vent was not obstructed.
After all the groping she passed some strange poop. Almost neon blue/green and mucuslike.. or seaweed-ey. Hard to describe. They're fed a mash made with water and layer crumble. They get table scraps too, recently they had a few black muscadines, but likely not enough to cause blue poop. They free-range occasionally, and she had been digging in the mulch that is a bit moldy (I've read moldy grain causes blue/green poop).
Anyway, later that night she passed more blue/green poop but this time with white gobs of ..something? Tissue? Egg? They look like white beans. They have no smell. They look sort of like fatty tissue, but are a bit firmer. They squish easily and are the same color on the inside, the texture looks very fleshy to me..
She seems to feel less uncomfortable today, but is still passing this stuff. What the heck is it? Anyone seen this before? I was thinking lash eggs, but that's way too many. Her vent looks like she may not be laying currently, but considering she's appearing to be mid-molt, that's to be expected.
I'm ready to cull her if need be, but I'd rather give her a chance to recover. I don't take my chickens to the vet, as that's not financially doable (they're livestock, not pets, to us. $100-200 vet visit... not gonna happen.)
