Hen not moving much. Help?!?

[MotherMal13]

Yesterday she was outside under a chair in the rain and all the other chickens were in the coop. I didnt think anything of it so i went and got a towel to take her into the coop with. She was only a little bit wet. Anyways, when i set her down she didnt move. She hasent moved much just a couple steps every few minutes. She will drink if i put water in front of her but will only eat one bite. Also she has poo on her butt. It dosent look like its stuck just underneath on her tailfeathers. Does anyone know whats wrong with her and how can i fix it?
Thanks.

 

[Chickens? WOW]

Maybe she is egg-bound. Is she pushing and straining? If so she probably is egg-bound. Clean off the poo, smooth some olive oil on her behind and put her over a heat source, like a hot bucket of water. This will help her open up. OR you can put her over a hot steamy bath. DON'T put her in the bath, let the steam help. If she isn't egg-bound I don't know what the problem is.

 

[MotherMal13]

If she is egg bound would she be able to poo? Because i cleaned off her bum and after she pooed. I didnt see anything in there also.

 

[teach1rusl]

If egg bound, you might feel around her rear area underneath for any bulges that aren't normally there.
Also, check her crop first thing in the morning to see if it is small, cause impacted crop is another issue that can cause problems. If it's still big/full, that's probably your issue.
Without knowing more, we're really only guessing. If you try to give her a treat like scrambled egg or something REALLY tempting, will she eat it????

 

[karen71]

You may want to bring her in to isolate her - how is she doing ?

 

[Black Creek Poultry]

Anytime we find one practicaly motionless, we will one of 2 things, offer her Gro-Gel B+ and or Power-Aid or Gatorade! The latter 2 are loaded with electrolytes and provide a chicken with that "boost" of energy to get them going again. Thus, giving them appetite and desire to move, increasing blood flow.
John

 

[MotherMal13]

I tried to give her yogurt but she wouldnt take it. The poo she did wasent really normal, it was like liquidy green balls connected with a white stringy thing, really strange. Also she isent roosting with the other chickens she is snuggled up on the floor with the silkies.

 

[amamaofmany]

I just logged in to ask about a similar situation with our silkie, Cloud. She didn't want to go into the coop, and was hiding under it. We got her out, and she just stood so pathetic and lethargic on the floor of the coop when we put her in.

I went out with a strong flashlight and saw that her bottom was bloody from being pecked clean of most feathers, and that she had diarrhea. Her vent is very open with thin green poo around it and down her wounded bottom. She's now just standing, not sitting, but I can't feel any unusual lumps or anything to indicate that she's eggbound.

Her crop is not full - I'm not sure she's eaten much - all I can feel in her crop is sand.

I gave her water by spoon as she would not drink and after a few spoonfuls she refused more.
She is right there by the food, and isn't making any movement to go eat. At this moment I cannot isolate her as the chicken isolation pen is currently housing a shi'tzu! Well, he was abandoned last fall and we can't trust him not to mess in the house at night, so he's in the dog crate that was formerly used to isolate the chickens.

I don't have anything else at the moment that could work.

Anyway, we washed up her bottom and treated the wounds with bluekote. And she just stands there looking droopy and sick.

Should I give her antibiotic? (I have Aureomycin in a packet that we have for an old feral tomcat that occasionally comes here with a bulging head and abscess, probably from his teeth and we give him some in tuna oil for 14 days to help the old boy.) No gatoraid or any other electrolyte stuff here at the moment, though for Cloud the Silkie. Not sure what else to do for her until morning.

 

[MotherMal13]

Can i bring her in? I have a broody in the house already and i dont want her to get sick too, if its even possible for them to share it. Could whatever is wrong with her be contagious, i have more animals in the house and i dont want anything happening to them. I dont know how she is doing right now

i'll to check on her in the morning before school tomarrow. I dont have any gatoraid or anything around. Is there something else i can give her?
Thanks again.

 

[MotherMal13]

Nothing better today, moving even less than yesterday she drank or a good 5 mins and i got her to eat some bread. She is all puffed up and on her bum it looks like there is diarrhea stuck under her bum, well not stuck but encrusted on her tailfeathers. Another one of my girls whose name is Dove, may be sick. Earlier my mom said that she was walking slowly into the coop and she had a bloody bum. I just came in from locking them up and there was a egg thing. It looked like a piece of brown wax paper pinched together. Also there was poo around it.

I dont know whats wrong with them!

Tomarrow my mom is going to TSC to try and find some medicine for them, what should she look for? Thanks.

Maybe there will be some chicks there. I have a boody on day 20 and im not so sure the eggs are going to hatch.

ETA:Would pics help?