Hen With Swollen Abdomen 🤨

[Chick3nLover]

Hi! I have a 2.5 year old Golden Laced Wyandotte who has been kinda off the last few weeks. I was watching her and seeing if she’d improve, however, she has slowly seemed to decline. She has a Swollen abdomen (feels hard yet still mailable) and off white yellowish poopy vent feathers. Up until today, because I isolated her to observe her closer, but before I did this, she had been eating, still hanging out with her flock mates but more isolated and disinterested in snacks, more interested in pellets. Today she didn’t eat much of her feed I gave her separately (which was mashed watered pellets, Greek yogurt w/t honey; and just a few berries and corn later.) she enjoyed the uncommon foods but her mashed food she didn’t eat much if any. I gave her an epsom salt bath tonight, and then when I went to go lock up the girls she was in a corner on the ground not roosting. Any idea what this is and how I can help her please share

 

[MysteryChicken]

Hi! I have a 2.5 year old Golden Laced Wyandotte who has been kinda off the last few weeks. I was watching her and seeing if she’d improve, however, she has slowly seemed to decline. She has a Swollen abdomen (feels hard yet still mailable) and off white yellowish poopy vent feathers. Up until today, because I isolated her to observe her closer, but before I did this, she had been eating, still hanging out with her flock mates but more isolated and disinterested in snacks, more interested in pellets. Today she didn’t eat much of her feed I gave her separately (which was mashed watered pellets, Greek yogurt w/t honey; and just a few berries and corn later.) she enjoyed the uncommon foods but her mashed food she didn’t eat much if any. I gave her an epsom salt bath tonight, and then when I went to go lock up the girls she was in a corner on the ground not roosting. Any idea what this is and how I can help her please share

Sounds like water belly/Ascites.