Hen no longer walking, what am I overlooking?

[MargieandMagic]

I just went to check on her and I noticed a red ring in her eye. I'm thinking maybe she has a respiratory infection and I'm going to get a bottle of injectable lyquamycin. I would prefer to get tylan soluble but with corona cases the only vets that have experience with chickens are not accepting any new patients so I will not be able to get her a vet appointment for at least another month.

 

[Eggcessive]

So you think she has conjunctivitis? Do you see any bubbles or swelling around the eye or face? A picture tomorrow might help.

 

[Duckpooper]

Thank you so much for sharing that article. I read the entire thing, had to google a bunch of terms/symptoms that I am unfamiliar with. Nothing seems to match enough to help me pick a treatment direction. Her legs look perfectly healthy as do the legs of my other chickens.

I can't find the article again, but as I've been doing research this afternoon I came across a little blurb in a blog that someone had a hen that tilted forward like she is in the photo when their hen was egg bound with a SOFT shell egg. I was going to try a epsom salt bath next.

Do you think it is possible that her curly toes/bad leg are the issue and she has just grown too big to support herself and may be in pain?

It depends on how bad her toe is curled. My duck has one and he seems to walk just fine. And I agree, she might have an egg stuck in her. I looked up some symptoms of it and they do seem to lift their butt in the air, but you have to act fast on it. Here's a website that shows how you could treat it/symptoms:
https://www.fresheggsdaily.blog/2012/06/egg-bound-hens-how-to-recognize-treat.html?m=1

 

[MargieandMagic]

Ok, so I gave her a epsom salt bath, it didn't appear to help. But after I got back from the store she finally had a abnormal poo. It looks like a cocci poo so I mixed some corvid for her and have so far helped her drink twice tonight with a dropper.

Fingers crossed it is something this simple and hopefully I'll see some results by tomorrow morning.

Thank you SO much for all your suggestions! I was absolutely racking my brain and at a total loss due to the lack of symptoms.

I'll update in the morning.

 

[MargieandMagic]

UPDATE: She still is flopping onto her side, doesn't want to walk but is no longer tilted forward. She is having normal bowel movements and appears to be eating and drinking though I am still offering her water through a dropper that is dosed with corvid.

The one thing that gives me hope is that her personality is returning, she fights me and tries to stand on her own when I take her out of her cage and tries to squirm out of my hands. She has also halfheartedly bit me. I know that last part doesn't sound great but it isn't a hard mean bite, she's just a sassy little hen.

 

[Eggcessive]

Have you tried giving any vitamins with riboflavin? Chicken slings might be something that you want to check out for her:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/