Impacted and/or Sour crop treatment

[azygous]

It's great you were able to get her in to see a vet. Actually seeing a chicken is 100% superior to trying to make guess over the internet.

You usually see improvement with an antibiotic within the first 24 to 48 hours. Be sure to give all the doses even if she appears to be better.

We old timers usually suspect a reproductive infection when we see yellow tinged poop. Yellow poop can also indicate liver malfunction. So if the antibiotic doesn't improve her symptoms, you could be looking at liver disease. Did the vet mention that?

 

[Winderdear]

It's great you were able to get her in to see a vet. Actually seeing a chicken is 100% superior to trying to make guess over the internet.

You usually see improvement with an antibiotic within the first 24 to 48 hours. Be sure to give all the doses even if she appears to be better.

We old timers usually suspect a reproductive infection when we see yellow tinged poop. Yellow poop can also indicate liver malfunction. So if the antibiotic doesn't improve her symptoms, you could be looking at liver disease. Did the vet mention that?

No, she did not mention that. I hope that isn’t the case.

 

[Winderdear]

So, I spoke with the vet over the phone. She believes it’s unlikely to be liver disease or toxicity damage to the liver. She says that green /yellow poop is common with bacterial infections, and based on what she’s been dealing with previously, that’s our best guess. The liver itself isn’t enlarged on the x-ray, so it isn’t fatty liver. She cannot rule out a liver infection, but the amoxicillin should fight that as well if that’s the case.

My theory, which has no basis in medical knowledge, is that she had a blockage somewhere lower down, we cleared it with papaya and digestive enzymes as well as stool softeners, and once that blockage was cleared, her weakened and imbalanced gut developed a secondary infection. I don’t think she has had an infection all this time, based on her behavior the past two weeks. She seems completely different now that she is dealing with a fever and these yucky sludgy poops (which of course I now have a picture of on my phone… )

She is still drinking a lot of water, though her appetite is suppressed and she won’t willingly eat anything. Overall, I think that’s to be expected. I don’t usually eat much when I have a fever either. When the amoxicillin knocks back the infection, her appetite should return. I plan to follow up the antibiotics with probiotics, assuming all goes well. Which it will. I have to keep telling myself it will.

 

[Winderdear]

She did well overnight, and is eating and drinking. She has better looking poops, more like what they were a few days ago. I believe her fever is gone, but she isn’t moving around a lot like she was before we had to take her to the vet. She can balance and stand just fine, but going up and down off of things seems to be difficult for her at the moment.

She had this one odd poop, and I was hoping you could give me your opinion on it @azygous or anyone else who is knowledgeable about such things.

She has had very watery poops all this time, even her cecal poop was full of water. This poop however was just a lump, which at first felt rubbery, but really it was more the consistency of half-dried paint, sort of stretchy. I initially thought it was a tiny bit of lash material, but it’s kind of like thickened urates maybe? Isn’t that odd with all these puddle poops she’s been giving us? In the past two weeks she’s never had anything like this.