- Mar 29, 2011
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My three year old production red hen, Sunny has been throwing up.
Yesterday she was free ranging with the flock and seemed to stay by herself a lot under a small bush. Her and another hen stayed in the yard a good part of the day while the rest of the flock went back to the coop.
At around dinner time, I went and picked up my hen to bring her back to the coop for the night. She was still all alone under a small bush and didn't seem like she was going to go back to the coop on her own. She is generally a hen who doesn't tolerate being held very well, but she was fine with me bringing her to the coop last night.
When I bent down and placed her in the chickens run, she vomited all over the ground. Her beak was dripping wet and appeared to be a piece of grass on it too.
I immediately separated her into the storage part of the coop in a cage. When I placed her in her cage, she vomited again. It was a brown liquid.
Her voice sounded "liquidy" after that.
Then this morning I checked on her and held her. I avoided touching her crop and just kind of supported her wings with one hand and right in front of her feet with the other as I placed her on the floor, and she vomited again. Brown liquid.
Her poop appears green. She is drinking, but doesn't seem hungry.
Her vomit does not seem to have a odor.
What should I do for her?
Edited to say: Her crop felt squishy yesterday and this morning.
Yesterday she was free ranging with the flock and seemed to stay by herself a lot under a small bush. Her and another hen stayed in the yard a good part of the day while the rest of the flock went back to the coop.
At around dinner time, I went and picked up my hen to bring her back to the coop for the night. She was still all alone under a small bush and didn't seem like she was going to go back to the coop on her own. She is generally a hen who doesn't tolerate being held very well, but she was fine with me bringing her to the coop last night.
When I bent down and placed her in the chickens run, she vomited all over the ground. Her beak was dripping wet and appeared to be a piece of grass on it too.
I immediately separated her into the storage part of the coop in a cage. When I placed her in her cage, she vomited again. It was a brown liquid.
Her voice sounded "liquidy" after that.
Then this morning I checked on her and held her. I avoided touching her crop and just kind of supported her wings with one hand and right in front of her feet with the other as I placed her on the floor, and she vomited again. Brown liquid.
Her poop appears green. She is drinking, but doesn't seem hungry.
Her vomit does not seem to have a odor.
What should I do for her?
Edited to say: Her crop felt squishy yesterday and this morning.
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