Lace Wyandotte eating but afterwards does a neck dance

[Nikuchan]

I found our Silver Lace in a corner with her feathers all fluffed. I picked her up and she seemed thinner than normal. She wasn’t eating with the other girls. The hard freeze was hitting so brought her inside along with another hen with a hurt foot.
She had watery stools. Her crop felt full and seemed lopsided but not hard. She’s had access to free grit all the time.
She would not eat layers pellets. She would eat small amounts of rice and then do a neck dance.
I removed the rice and waited. The next day her crop seemed empty. I returned the food. She still had watery stool for 2 days.
This morning the stool is more firm, but she is still doing the neck dance and her crop is soft. I offered her a meal worm and she just thew up water.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

I found our Silver Lace in a corner with her feathers all fluffed. I picked her up and she seemed thinner than normal. She wasn’t eating with the other girls. The hard freeze was hitting so brought her inside along with another hen with a hurt foot.
She had watery stools. Her crop felt full and seemed lopsided but not hard. She’s had access to free grit all the time.
She would not eat layers pellets. She would eat small amounts of rice and then do a neck dance.
I removed the rice and waited. The next day her crop seemed empty. I returned the food. She still had watery stool for 2 days.
This morning the stool is more firm, but she is still doing the neck dance and her crop is soft. I offered her a meal worm and she just thew up water.

She might have coccidiosis.

Symptoms of coccidiosis include weight loss, paleness, ruffled feathers, depression, huddling, unwillingness to eat, and watery or bloody and watery diarrhea. All birds are at risk, but growing birds and young adults ages 3 to 5 weeks old seem most susceptible.

You can buy Amprolium and put it her water (keep her quarantined)

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Sounds like possibly sour crop. How old is she?

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Sounds like possibly sour crop. How old is she?

I didn’t think about that

 

[Aapomp831]

Chickens do not vomit, so if food is coming out you have an impacted crop. Rice is the very last thing you should be feeding her, as it is a heavy carbohydrate and will worsen impacted crop - and once a crop is impacted for too long, it becomes sour bc the food isn’t going down and it sits and ferments. Withhold food and water for 12 hours and see if the crop goes down - but please stop feeding her rice. If anything, some scrambled egg (because it has 0 carbs - sour crop is a yeast infection fed by carbohydrates).

 

[Nikuchan]

2 1/2 years

Sounds like possibly sour crop. How old is she?

 

[Nikuchan]

Sounds like possibly sour crop. How old is she?

2 1/2 years

 

[Nikuchan]

Sounds like possibly sour crop. How old is she?

2 1/2 years

 

[Nikuchan]

I’m treating for sour crop.

 

[Nikuchan]

Chickens do not vomit, so if food is coming out you have an impacted crop. Rice is the very last thing you should be feeding her, as it is a heavy carbohydrate and will worsen impacted crop - and once a crop is impacted for too long, it becomes sour bc the food isn’t going down and it sits and ferments. Withhold food and water for 12 hours and see if the crop goes down - but please stop feeding her rice. If anything, some scrambled egg (because it has 0 carbs - sour crop is a yeast infection fed by carbohydrates).

I didn’t say food was coming out. I wasn’t clear. Water came out. I said I had removed food. I did for 12 hours. This included the rice. She only had 3 peaks of rice before it was removed. I appreciate your knowledge but it sounds like you are yelling. As I read, I’m learning. I’m trying my best.