pitapinta79
Chirping
Hi, my name is Pablo and I'm from Spain.
I have an Issa Brown called Marilyn -she's a pretty blondie- with 3 years old, very good layer as all Issa brown seems to be. Two weeks ago she started to act strange, like running stressed across the meadow. She looked weird, like gone mad for moments. I thought it was the molt, as they change their behaviour sometimes when they are molting. In fact, she had a really hard molting this year. But two days after that change they started to poop yellow/mustard and I started to worry more.
I started to give her onion and garlic (i usually do this 2 or 3 times each 10 days, more or less) and a treatment for coccidiosis, just in case she had worms. But, the day after that, she tried to fly a little to a wall where they have their daily sunbath and she fell. She was really really weak as it is a small wall (20 cms. high).
Immediately I took her home and prepared a corner in the living room, near the radiator, with food and drink nearby. I realized that I was hardly walking. His health had deteriorated very quickly. As I watched her closely and felt her chest, I realized that she had lost a lot of weight. She was anorexic.
The first thing I did was start an antibiotic treatment, in case she had some kind of infection. She seemed to have a fever. I saw that his poop was still yellow, and also with very liquid consistency. The first thing I thought was that it was cholera or something like that. I fed her little by little. I did not want to stress her body.
For 4 days she ate very little, and what she did was drink a lot of water, in which I give her vitamins and minerals. On the 4th day I noticed that his crop was completely full and hard in the morning. I massaged it and waited a few hours just in case, but it turned out she had it blocked.
I immediately went down to the pharmacy, bought a scalpel, and with the help of my wife we did the surgery to open his crop and empty it. They were very hard moments. I had to learn by some videos on YouTube quickly. I felt that his life hung by a thread and I could not delay. I opened and what I saw left me stunned. It was a compact ball full of grass, grains, probably bread - sometimes I give them a little, not much ... - It looked like it had been there for many days. I emptied it and stuck the incision with superglue after disinfecting. She endured the surgery very well and a few hours later began to eat. The poor thing had to take days, perhaps a week or more consuming her reserves of fat. That's why she was anorexic. ¿Or maybe not only for that?
Yesterday I wanted her to see her companions. It was a good day, so I took her to the meadow. A sunbath would do her good, and feeding the other hens might stimulate Marilyn's appetite. That's how it went. But I also noticed something else. He seemed to make efforts to defecate. However, she defecated very little. In fact, since I empty her crop, I have the feeling that she defecates less than she eats but I do not know if it's my paranoia.
When I lifted her up in the air to check her vent, I thought it was bulging and somewhat round. As if I had an egg bound. I had already observed that she kept herself with a penguin posture and now makes "effort" noises. She has not laid an egg for months, since she began to molt.
So I took her home, submerged her in warm water for twenty minutes and massaged her belly. I put on gloves and olive oil in one finger. I put it into his vent and I certainly noticed something round at the beginning. I lubricated everything I could and waited a few hours. At sunset I repeated the process. I also prepared a box with grass and put an egg inside. I had hoped that at dawn today she would have laid an egg. But it was not the case.
Today was exactly the same. I took her to the meadow, she makes the effort, I notice that she gets something out of the cloaca , etc. I give her the bath, I introduce the finger ... and the same thing. I notice his cloaca hard inside and that's what I think is an egg or what? I just don't know. She continues without defecating a lot of solid matter even though she eats. I am afraid that she is blocked in some way and she will have the problem in her crop again or worse. I have come to think that maybe it is not an egg, but a piece of tumor or something like that. The funny thing is that although she remains very weak (she barely walks like a drunkard, although she is still standing) the poops are not yellow since I emptied the crop and eat more, she has more appetite. Today she finished the antibiothic treatment so I fear that she has something inside she could get an infection. But she can not take more antibiothics for a while.
What I'm going to do now at sunset is to put her vaseline in the vent again, just in case. And supply her with the mixture of cinnamon, ginger, lemon and cayenne in case she has a piece of something undigested in her digestive tract.
This is a photo of her vent after making noises of effort. When the photo was taken, the swelling had diminished. What you see is a mixture of Vaseline and poop that has been expelled.
I'm sorry I wrote such a long text, but I'm really desperate. She is my little blonde.
Many thanks.
I have an Issa Brown called Marilyn -she's a pretty blondie- with 3 years old, very good layer as all Issa brown seems to be. Two weeks ago she started to act strange, like running stressed across the meadow. She looked weird, like gone mad for moments. I thought it was the molt, as they change their behaviour sometimes when they are molting. In fact, she had a really hard molting this year. But two days after that change they started to poop yellow/mustard and I started to worry more.
I started to give her onion and garlic (i usually do this 2 or 3 times each 10 days, more or less) and a treatment for coccidiosis, just in case she had worms. But, the day after that, she tried to fly a little to a wall where they have their daily sunbath and she fell. She was really really weak as it is a small wall (20 cms. high).
Immediately I took her home and prepared a corner in the living room, near the radiator, with food and drink nearby. I realized that I was hardly walking. His health had deteriorated very quickly. As I watched her closely and felt her chest, I realized that she had lost a lot of weight. She was anorexic.
The first thing I did was start an antibiotic treatment, in case she had some kind of infection. She seemed to have a fever. I saw that his poop was still yellow, and also with very liquid consistency. The first thing I thought was that it was cholera or something like that. I fed her little by little. I did not want to stress her body.
For 4 days she ate very little, and what she did was drink a lot of water, in which I give her vitamins and minerals. On the 4th day I noticed that his crop was completely full and hard in the morning. I massaged it and waited a few hours just in case, but it turned out she had it blocked.
I immediately went down to the pharmacy, bought a scalpel, and with the help of my wife we did the surgery to open his crop and empty it. They were very hard moments. I had to learn by some videos on YouTube quickly. I felt that his life hung by a thread and I could not delay. I opened and what I saw left me stunned. It was a compact ball full of grass, grains, probably bread - sometimes I give them a little, not much ... - It looked like it had been there for many days. I emptied it and stuck the incision with superglue after disinfecting. She endured the surgery very well and a few hours later began to eat. The poor thing had to take days, perhaps a week or more consuming her reserves of fat. That's why she was anorexic. ¿Or maybe not only for that?
Yesterday I wanted her to see her companions. It was a good day, so I took her to the meadow. A sunbath would do her good, and feeding the other hens might stimulate Marilyn's appetite. That's how it went. But I also noticed something else. He seemed to make efforts to defecate. However, she defecated very little. In fact, since I empty her crop, I have the feeling that she defecates less than she eats but I do not know if it's my paranoia.
When I lifted her up in the air to check her vent, I thought it was bulging and somewhat round. As if I had an egg bound. I had already observed that she kept herself with a penguin posture and now makes "effort" noises. She has not laid an egg for months, since she began to molt.
So I took her home, submerged her in warm water for twenty minutes and massaged her belly. I put on gloves and olive oil in one finger. I put it into his vent and I certainly noticed something round at the beginning. I lubricated everything I could and waited a few hours. At sunset I repeated the process. I also prepared a box with grass and put an egg inside. I had hoped that at dawn today she would have laid an egg. But it was not the case.
Today was exactly the same. I took her to the meadow, she makes the effort, I notice that she gets something out of the cloaca , etc. I give her the bath, I introduce the finger ... and the same thing. I notice his cloaca hard inside and that's what I think is an egg or what? I just don't know. She continues without defecating a lot of solid matter even though she eats. I am afraid that she is blocked in some way and she will have the problem in her crop again or worse. I have come to think that maybe it is not an egg, but a piece of tumor or something like that. The funny thing is that although she remains very weak (she barely walks like a drunkard, although she is still standing) the poops are not yellow since I emptied the crop and eat more, she has more appetite. Today she finished the antibiothic treatment so I fear that she has something inside she could get an infection. But she can not take more antibiothics for a while.
What I'm going to do now at sunset is to put her vaseline in the vent again, just in case. And supply her with the mixture of cinnamon, ginger, lemon and cayenne in case she has a piece of something undigested in her digestive tract.
This is a photo of her vent after making noises of effort. When the photo was taken, the swelling had diminished. What you see is a mixture of Vaseline and poop that has been expelled.
I'm sorry I wrote such a long text, but I'm really desperate. She is my little blonde.
Many thanks.
