Is this rooster damage? Or does she have something else going on?

[FunnyBunny89]

My poor hen Violet has been off the past two days. She came down with some sticky, yellow-y diarrhea. I noticed her overnight poop looked mucus-y and yellow too, and there was a lot. I gave her an epsom salt soak and cleaned her bottom, but she lays down a lot. Is she stressed out from the feather damage? I'm trying to come up with a way to separate her from the flock without jeopardizing her rank too much, but I have a bunch of 13-14 week old roos in the separation area right now, and I'm afraid if I put her there (with another hen whose feathers are getting wrecked) that the young roos will stress them both out in their own ways. The roos are due to be harvested, so I was hoping we could manage until then, but her chicken saddle isn't solving the problem.

I'm worried about her

Pics included.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I wouldn't put her with the extra boys, keep the boys separated from the hens.

The feather loss/damage looks typical from mating/being mounted. The broken feathers will not be replaced until she goes through a molt.

She's laying down a lot and the poop is mucousy/yellow - when was her last egg?
If she's not laid an egg and should have, I'd give her 1 Calcium Citrate+D3 tablet now, then once daily for a week.

Stress could be a factor, sometimes a hen will hide about if there's too many cockerels/roosters and being overmated, but I'd investigate/check her out to make sure she's not having some reproductive problems, lice/mites, crop not emptying, etc.

My poor hen Violet has been off the past two days. She came down with some sticky, yellow-y diarrhea. I noticed her overnight poop looked mucus-y and yellow too, and there was a lot. I gave her an epsom salt soak and cleaned her bottom, but she lays down a lot. Is she stressed out from the feather damage? I'm trying to come up with a way to separate her from the flock without jeopardizing her rank too much, but I have a bunch of 13-14 week old roos in the separation area right now, and I'm afraid if I put her there (with another hen whose feathers are getting wrecked) that the young roos will stress them both out in their own ways. The roos are due to be harvested, so I was hoping we could manage until then, but her chicken saddle isn't solving the problem.

I'm worried about her

Pics included.

 

[FunnyBunny89]

I wouldn't put her with the extra boys, keep the boys separated from the hens.

The feather loss/damage looks typical from mating/being mounted. The broken feathers will not be replaced until she goes through a molt.

She's laying down a lot and the poop is mucousy/yellow - when was her last egg?
If she's not laid an egg and should have, I'd give her 1 Calcium Citrate+D3 tablet now, then once daily for a week.

Stress could be a factor, sometimes a hen will hide about if there's too many cockerels/roosters and being overmated, but I'd investigate/check her out to make sure she's not having some reproductive problems, lice/mites, crop not emptying, etc.

I don't know when her last egg was, and that's my main concern. I have oyster shells out for them but idk if she eats them, and they're on an all flock mix. Normally we have zero issues with eggs, but the new roo I got favors her too much and I'm afraid she's having trouble because of it.

Would it be worth it to put the young roos back into the flock and put her and the other hen in the separation coop? It's not isolated from the flock, just separated, so they'll all still see each other plenty.

I can give her a calcium tablet tomorrow. I am considering adding ACV to their water. Someone near me suggested a tsp per gallon, swears that it helped his hens. But that's only if it isn't a reproductive issue, huh?

And do I check her crop in the morning? She is clear of lice. We had a bout of it in the main flock but it's pretty well gone at this point. Only one hen has any left and I dusted her tonight. I'm gonna clean the coop tomorrow. I don't think she has any bug problems, and her poops were normal until yesterday. I'm worried an egg broke inside of her...

 

[FunnyBunny89]

Sorry for the gross pic, but this was thr poop all over her butt that I washed off. Looks yellow and mucus-y.

 

[FunnyBunny89]

She actually might be in a molt right now. She's about the right age, and it'll be her first one. There are feathers everywhere and her tail has really emptied out, and I noticed her front is looking disheveled too, like it's missing feathers.

 

[FunnyBunny89]

Looks like she was eggbound with a broken softshelled egg. She's up and about this morning. Found this on the coop floor. Probably was stuck in her all day yesterday. She has a very red bottom, but nothing else seems to be wrong.