Is it a bad sign for an internal layer/ egg yolk peritonitis?

[hensintheHOUse]

I will keep updating until she dies or surviveｓ.

Here is her dropping from last night and now (In the morning ) . After the dropping she made above, her stools are getting runny again.


Last night.



5:00am in the morning. Again, I saw this kind of poop yesterday.. What is this?

 

[hensintheHOUse]

Here is what I contacted with one of memebers who I mentioned above.
She kindly allowed me to copy and paste our conversations for anybody who has this problem like our chickens.

Hello, I have a question about your chicken Ralphie

Conversation between missychicky mom and me

hensintheHOUse
Yesterday at 12:31 pm
Hello

It is nice to meet you.

I read your thread about Ralphie who seemed recovered from internal egg/ egg yolk peritonitis.

My chicken has the same problem as your Ralphie had.

If you have time, could you please tell us your story about your Ralphie ?


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Here is the tread that I started below.

79 of 79

Well, I was reading about egg yolk peritonitis here, I found this one.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/555426/egg-peritonitis-vent-gleet-something-else


It seems like missychickymom's Ralphie was recovered. The symtom is like mine,but I don't see fresh egg yolks comming out from her vent like that, it is more like cooked some white egg come out

hmm...




https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...gn-for-an-internal-layer-egg-yolk-peritonitis

hensintheHOUse
Yesterday at 12:32 pm
I am sorry, I hit the send button befoer I finished..


Thank you for reading,

All the best,
Akiko

missychicky mom
Yesterday at 10:06 pm
Well that was two years ago as I recall...
It took me forever to figure out what happened to Ralphie. It is actually a disease called salpingitis which is a secondary infection that happens when a respiratory bacterial infection that travels down the respiratory tract into the oviduct. There does not seem to be an agreed upon treatment for it. Ralphie and Doofy both got it and died within a month of getting it. Amber got the respiratory infection but we gave her antibiotics and she recovered. She only rarely lays eggs anymore (about once a year...) but she is healthy.
Here is a link to an article about it. http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/134/salpingitis
wish I could tell you something happier about this......
Good luck......


hensintheHOUse
Today at 12:58 am
Thank you so much for your response and very kind words.

Now I can understand why she has had the symptoms.

I am very sorry for your loss, even though that is a long time ago.
But I am glad to hear that Amber is well now.

Thank you so much, again.

All the best,
Akiko

hensintheHOUse
Today at 2:33 am
Hi again,

I am wondering if I could copy and paste your this private message on my thread, because it may help others why their chicken have a swollen abdomen.


Happy holidays,
Akiko

missychicky mom
Today at 3:03 am
Please do! It took me over 2 years to finally figure out what had happened- I could not find anything about Salpingitis and yet it is apperently a very common chicken ailment.
The key seems to be treating any respritarory infections quickly before they turn into this.....


hensintheHOUse
Today at 3:07 am
Thank you so much, missychicky mom!

I certainly do.

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she would have the disease at first ,then have had many problems came out, I wonder?

I still worm and give her Baytril though. I never wormed her before.

 

[casportpony]

All of my sick birds get wormed, period.

-Kathy

 

[hensintheHOUse]

Kathy,

I got it, period.

- Akiko

 

[casportpony]

I know your husband is opposed to this, but I really think you should have a vet look do a gram stain on the poop, maybe a fecal float, too. I was at the vet yesterday and the vet found yeast in my peahen's poop and lots of gram negative bacteria in my peachick's poop. Total bill for two birds was $150 and that included the office visit, exams, two gram stains, one fecal float and anti-fungal pills. Treatment for the one with the gram negative bacteria is Baytril, which I already have.

-Kathy

 

[hensintheHOUse]

Kathy,

Thank you for your experiment. I didn't care about worming until you told me. I was really careless not to worm our chickens.
It was very good to know how to take care birds correctly.

Thank you for that, I really mean it.

 

[casportpony]

That was not aimed at you, lol, sorry if it seemed like it, I was just trying to emphasize in a roundabout way that is is a very safe thing to do even when birds are sick. Don't feel bad about not worming, heck, I have tons of chickens and ducks here that have never been wormed, mostly 'cause I'm too lazy to catch them and do it. Peafowl and Turkeys, this might sound harsh, but they're the ones I care about, so they are on a regular worming schedule.

Worming a stable, sick bird is fine and it might help the bird get better. If your bird is up and about it is stable enough to worm, IMO, lol.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

BTW, I think your hen's poop is starting to look more normal, so maybe the penicillin is starting to work? If it is starting to work I don't think you need to switch to the Baytril, but this is where the advice from a vet would be best.

-Kathy

 

[hensintheHOUse]

LOL... I didn't take that way, Kathy.

Well, my other chicken's poop started to look weird.



This picture is after I cleaned. the poop looks okay,,but the liquid looks bloody for some reason. I don't know what it is.

It is a good thing to worm both of them!

 

[pwand]

Worm all your chickens. If one has it, they all have it.