Hen yawning and milky white poop

[Hannah1234]

My 7 year old Americauna hen has started yawning periodically and has been having milky white poops. She still gobbles you the meal warms I give her for treats, but I haven’t noticed her eating her normal food in a while and she isn’t interested in some other treats she usually has liked in the past. I’ve seen her yawn, which I know usually means something isn’t moving properly in her crop or she is gasping due to some sort of lung injury. She still has a few normal looking poops (brown with white caps, etc), but I’d say at least half of her poops are all white. The white seems to be thicker than what I have usually seen and much more frequent. Also, it seems that her food may not be being digested normally, because there is sometimes brown chunks in her poo that still resemble the pellet shape of her pellet food.

We gave her deworming medicine for 5 days about a week ago after her sister was found to have worms. The strange poops started shortly before we gave her the deworming medicine.

She has also been almost frantically preening her feathers. She prefers her feathers to be very tidy, so it is normal for her to preen frequently, but there seems to be more urgency behind it now. The skin where her nose meets her beak also seems dryer than normal. She has also just started molting, so maybe that could be causing some of that, but I don’t recall this happening when she has molted before.

Has anyone seen these symptoms before? We had to put her sister down last week because she was found to have cancer, so I am very worried there is something wrong here as well .

 

[Hannah1234]

My 7 year old Americauna hen has started yawning periodically and has been having milky white poops. She still gobbles you the meal warms I give her for treats, but I haven’t noticed her eating her normal food in a while and she isn’t interested in some other treats she usually has liked in the past. I’ve seen her yawn, which I know usually means something isn’t moving properly in her crop or she is gasping due to some sort of lung injury. She still has a few normal looking poops (brown with white caps, etc), but I’d say at least half of her poops are all white. The white seems to be thicker than what I have usually seen and much more frequent. Also, it seems that her food may not be being digested normally, because there is sometimes brown chunks in her poo that still resemble the pellet shape of her pellet food.

We gave her deworming medicine for 5 days about a week ago after her sister was found to have worms. The strange poops started shortly before we gave her the deworming medicine.

She has also been almost frantically preening her feathers. She prefers her feathers to be very tidy, so it is normal for her to preen frequently, but there seems to be more urgency behind it now. The skin where her nose meets her beak also seems dryer than normal. She has also just started molting, so maybe that could be causing some of that, but I don’t recall this happening when she has molted before.

Has anyone seen these symptoms before? We had to put her sister down last week because she was found to have cancer, so I am very worried there is something wrong here as well .

apologies for all the poop photos. This is one of her poops on the more normal end. However, the white portion seems thicker than normal to me.

 

[Hannah1234]

For anyone wondering, took her to vet and she had a bad case of camplyobacteriosis. Taking medicine now.

 

[Lucy Brown]

I keep backyard chickens too and i have the same problem of the white poop.. any suggestions what to do? I already dewormed them and i cannot afford to take them to the vet