Hen has green stool with blood!

[coach723]

My first thought when I saw the droppings was also cancer. Did the vet do any labs to ID any of the possible viral causes? The white in droppings is the urates, or urine, so dehydration could cause it to be absent. Or kidneys not functioning. In this case a necropsy would really be the best option to ID actual cause of death and with labs to look at bacterial and viral possibilities. Often cancer is fairly obvious on necropsy.

 

[Ccort]

My first thought when I saw the droppings was also cancer. Did the vet do any labs to ID any of the possible viral causes? The white in droppings is the urates, or urine, so dehydration could cause it to be absent. Or kidneys not functioning. In this case a necropsy would really be the best option to ID actual cause of death and with labs to look at bacterial and viral possibilities. Often cancer is fairly obvious on necropsy.

They just did the stool sample, said she had thrush in her mouth, and did the X-ray. I wish I had done a necropsy, they never mentioned it and I was not thinking to ask. I was very upset at losing her. By labs, do you mean blood work? They said they weren't sure that blood work would tell us anything and that it would be too much for her with how sick she was.

 

[coach723]

Labs can be blood work, swabs and cultures, slides etc. Just depends on what they are looking for, which is often decided based on what is seen during necropsy. Some kinds of cancer make numerous small lesions that could be related to Marek's disease or Lymphoid Leukosis. A reproductive cancer can be mostly in the ovaries, or can be spread throughout the abdomen. If they see something in heart and lungs they may look at respiratory diseases. Infections can become septic, and then they might do cultures for bacterial causes.
For future reference, maybe call your state lab and ask about costs and whether you ship or can deliver if you are close enough. That way you will know, in the event it's needed. When something viral is suspected, it's highly recommended, so you know for sure and whether it might affect the rest of the flock. Or peace of mind that it won't. Depending on state, some of the state labs are much less expensive for necropsy than a vet. I'm so sorry. I know it can be really upsetting in the moment, and trying to think and make decisions can be incredibly difficult.
This link has a list of labs, by state:
https://www.metzerfarms.com/poultry-labs.html

 

[sean_wonder]

Coccidia produces mainly bloody stool not green and I'd be worried about throwing a medication at them they might not even need right now. The white parts in chicken droppings are urates which are basically concentrated urine-- so a total lack of them in droppings would indicate dehydration and/or kidney failure.

That being said, try offering treats with more liquid (cucumber, grapes etc) to provide a little extra hydration if some of them start looking dumpy. I'd hesitate to add electrolytes to the system because I'm not sure if (with kidney problems) they'd actually be metabolized well... but keep monitoring for sure. Isolate any birds that seem off, even if slightly.

The other girl had crop issues, and this girl had thrush right? Wonder if the other girl was also dealing with it... your vet didn't suggest any treatment for the others? Did your vet recommend anything?

 

[Ccort]

The vet never said anything about thrush for the first girl. I've now seen three vets for these issues, all said not to do anything for the others and wait and see. None will give a medications without em seeing each one. To have her put down, I had to take her two hours away as no one was available.
As of this morning, the one was the runny stool had a good poop, pic below. However, she also had food in her crop. I gave her monistat this morning. I don't know what else to do. How does half my flock have yeast issues?!
I threw away the bag of food and opened another. Washed all food/water containers. Sanitized surfaces as best as I could. But that's obviously hard with chickens.
I have leftover fluconazale and leftover baytril from the other two. Should I administer that to this girl, since this has been so bad? She's a lot larger than them so dosage would be off and obviously don't have the full round available to dose with.
Pics of her stool this morning are below. Does the white on the other girl look normal? She's growing some new facial feathers o I think it's just molting but the white spots on the side, above her eye have me slightly concerned, with all that's going on with yeast issues.

 

[Ccort]

Coccidia produces mainly bloody stool not green and I'd be worried about throwing a medication at them they might not even need right now. The white parts in chicken droppings are urates which are basically concentrated urine-- so a total lack of them in droppings would indicate dehydration and/or kidney failure.

That being said, try offering treats with more liquid (cucumber, grapes etc) to provide a little extra hydration if some of them start looking dumpy. I'd hesitate to add electrolytes to the system because I'm not sure if (with kidney problems) they'd actually be metabolized well... but keep monitoring for sure. Isolate any birds that seem off, even if slightly.

The other girl had crop issues, and this girl had thrush right? Wonder if the other girl was also dealing with it... your vet didn't suggest any treatment for the others? Did your vet recommend anything?

Correct. One had thrush and the other had crop issues. I now have a third with crop issues. I posted an update below.