Lame hen, discharge from beak

GuineaFowling

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Oct 3, 2013
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My Buff Orpington hen is suddenly sick. I seen her yesterday and she was perfectly fine. Today I went to fill the feeders and found her just standing with her eyes closed and her tail drooping down. Upon further inspection, I discovered her comb was very plump at one part like it swelled. Her beak has some almost clear but with a yellowish tint, sticky, liquid drooling out onto her wattles. As the liquid dries it turns more yellow. Under her nostrils is red and at the start of her beak is also a little red. Her crop is a little empty but that is due to me running out of feed yesterday and having to buy it today. I checked her vent and it was normal. I haven't seen her poop yet but the feathers around her vent are not wet or dirty so I dont know if she has diarrhea. I will find out what her poop looks like.
It is also very, very hot here. It's 92 degrees currently and yesterday it was higher. Could it be caused from heat? What is wrong with her? I have her secluded from the rest of the flock in a rabbit hutch. The other hens are perfectly fine. I put some vitamin and electrolyte mix in her water and dipped her beak in it a couple of times. She showed no interest in her feed but when I presented a grape to her she ate it happily. Is there anything else I can do? She keeps closing her eyes. If this is a disease, what is the cure for it or treatment?
I will post pictures soon.
Any feedback or suggestions will be much appreciated.
Thank you.
 
Im afraid my hen is experiencing the same symptoms. Are her eyes swollen and watery and is her vent pulsing? If you find anything out please inform me!
 
Subhanalah, I will try and get a picture soon. My cameras battery is dead.

Krisch, My hens eyes are not swollen or watery. Her vent is pulsing a little but all hens have pulsing vents don't they? Well mine do, especially when i try and inspect them.
 



She is very pale and her eyes are watery. Her beak is full of a sticky saliva-like liquid. Shes still eating but acts like shes in a daze and closes her eyes often. Her vent was pulsing a lot but from what i see it has stopped.
 
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I just found her like that today but i wasn't around all day yesterday to check and see if she had it then. I really hope they both get better too!
 
So this is my hen. She is still the same. Her mouth has some crusty yellow stuff in the corners.
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I think I might have found the cause of my hen being sick. Yesterday my sister went out to collect the eggs. She found one in the coop that was really light (in weight) and she thought it was fake (We have realistic fake eggs in the nestboxes) so she tapped it against the tree as she was leaving the coop and it popped. It burst open all over her and she dropped the eggs on the ground. Some cracked and my orpington was the first to run over and eat them. I ran out and threw the stinky rotten eggs away but the orpington still ate a lot. I don't know why the eggs were rotten. I think my sister found a clutch under the nestboxes and collected it. Could this be the cause? Do chickens get sick after eating rotten eggs? They werent really rotten because the smell only stayed around the egg and I have found clutches of eggs that were so rotten that they exploded and the smell went all over my property.
 

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