Laying hens with "water belly" or "ascites"?

[chicknmania]

Still weird.

 

[TherryChicken]

Still weird.

It's just their crops. They had full crops n it's his first time with chickens n ducks so am helping him. However one thing I am very confused with is why 9 died?

 

[chicknmania]

That's what i was wondering, if it was their crops. Who knows. Could be anything. Ask him what he's feeding them, etc. A friend of mine said her neighbor has a peacock, and the peacock lives alone. They feed him catfood. Tees me off, seriously.

 

[TherryChicken]

That's what i was wondering, if it was their crops.  Who knows.  Could be anything.  Ask him what he's feeding them, etc.  A friend of mine said her neighbor has a peacock, and the peacock lives alone.  They feed him catfood.  Tees me off, seriously.  

That horrible n they are fed chick starter

 

[chicknmania]

He should get a necro to see what's going on before it becomes a bigger problem.

 

[TherryChicken]

He should get a necro to see what's going on before it becomes a bigger problem.

He was untill he found out his husband disposed of them already. He didn't say that he did because my friend was soo upset

 

[chicknmania]

Bluebell died last night.

We think she had complications from worms. I dewormed her twice and she would improve, but then regress again. Our vet's office told me a lot of people are having serious problems with parasites this year, probably because of the constant rain and damp conditions. I am so sad for poor Bitsy, she's so lonely without Bluebell. I am seriously considering taking Bitsy to the vet to have her drained, get her some Lasix, and let her go back with the flock for her remaining time. At least she'd be happy and she acts perfectly normal except for her ascites. The vet has told me 40.00 - 80.00 just to drain her....but at least they would drain her all the way and do it right. I'm thinking about it.

 

[Shabana]

I'm so very sorry to hear about bluebell poor little girl. I'm just worming my flocks at the moment. I use flubenvet and buy the pellets that are already medicated with it. I worm them four times a year as they are on the same ground.
It's difficult to know what to do about poor Bitsy it's a lot of money. My vets fees were about £50, for the consultation and a six month script, all they did was listen to her chest, and basically agree with my own diagnosis. They said they thought it was her heart but quite honestly I don't think they had a clue.
I wouldn't want to see her on her own either

If her underlying problem is a tumor though and you think her time is limited I would have a go at draining her myself. Did you do her once already ?
When I did Boots I followed Kathy's instructions on the site and it worked brilliantly.
Either way, if she's well enough I would gradually reintroduce her so she has company. Maybe she could have her milk thistle as a dose rather than in her food ? I don't know much about it.

Boots is good so far. She did have a spell while we were adjusting her medication when she looked ill and unhappy. I was trying to give her as little as possible while controlling the fluid but now I've increased her dose to 0.2 ml each day which keeps the fluid off completely and she's in full on Boots mode, tail up and into everyone's business. She's been on her medication for a month now. I don't know how much time she'll have at the end of all this as I don't really know the cause. All I can say is that the medication worked very well for her. Her comb is still a bright bright red almost comical bright red so the underlying factors are still there ( is that a liver thing ? Not sure..) but a month later she's bombing about so it was worth it.

Again so sorry about bluebell.
I named one of my babies after her today.

Love and hugs x

 

[TherryChicken]

Bluebell died last night.    We think she had complications from worms.  I dewormed her twice and she would improve, but then regress again.  Our vet's office told me a lot of people are having serious problems with parasites this year, probably because of the constant rain and damp conditions.  I am so sad for poor Bitsy, she's so lonely without Bluebell.  I am seriously considering taking Bitsy to the vet to have her drained, get her some Lasix, and let her go back with the flock for her remaining time.  At least she'd be happy and she acts perfectly normal except for her ascites. The vet has told me 40.00 - 80.00 just to drain her....but at least they would drain her all the way and do it right.  I'm thinking about it.

So sorry

 

[chicknmania]

Thank you.

I felt twice as bad, since Bitsy obviously is so lonely, and of course I always kick myself everytime I lose one. We have drained Bitsy twice but my friend who helped me with it is in hospital now...and when we did it she had a lot of problems, kept running into air pockets the second time, and it just seemed to take forever to drain her. It was stressful,. we felt like we were torturing her. Really, her fluid is not increasing....it's strange. It's not gone, though. I just thought if I could get a vet to do it fairly cheaply, it might be easier. And then maybe I could hand feed her her Milkthistle in a treat, or something. Anyway, the vet won't do it without a consultation...but there's another vet I can call...and it's a long shot but I thought maybe I'd even ask our four-leg vet, though I doubt he would do that, though he does four leggers. If he would do it, I know he would not charge me much.