Lethargic chicken, falling asleep standing

[Big4Flyer]

Our 1 year old Buff Orpington, Chicken Nugget (named by our son), has been lethargic this morning, and consistently falling asleep standing up. She’s following the flock around slowly, but falls asleep as they eat, and then moves on to catch up with them and just stands there asleep. Yesterday she was completely fine and acting normal. All the other birds are still acting normal as well.

She’s usually one of our heaviest and most active and is still at a normal weight for her.

I can’t think of what would have caused this, except that my kids said they fed the chickens each a cherry yesterday, and I’m worried the pit may have done something to them (I’m not sure whether they ate the pit or not, but I assume so since they usually swallow grapes whole).

I’ve been holding her for the last hour and she’s breathing fine, but just sleepy unless she hears a sound and wakes up for a minute. She just pooped, so I’ve included a picture of that. She also just ate some soldier worms I gave her.

I’m trying to decide whether to bring her into an avian vet, but the nearest one is an hour away, and I don’t know if the drive would stress her more.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[dennisma1]

This is a sign of sickness, or yes could be something she ate. Cant hurt to isolate her. Some vitamins electrolytes if you have them. Since I dont bring chickens to vets cant comment on that. Ive found chickens to be pretty hardy and they often bounce back. one of mine ate a lizard or a toad (my guess) and acted like she would die , and was fine in a few days. Isolation keeps them from having to pretend to be well so they dont get picked on .

 

[Big4Flyer]

This is a sign of sickness, or yes could be something she ate. Cant hurt to isolate her. Some vitamins electrolytes if you have them. Since I dont bring chickens to vets cant comment on that. Ive found chickens to be pretty hardy and they often bounce back. one of mine ate a lizard or a toad (my guess) and acted like she would die , and was fine in a few days. Isolation keeps them from having to pretend to be well so they dont get picked on .

Thanks for your reply, I took her away from the others and just held her for a couple of hours. She then seemed to snap out of it, ran to the coop and laid 2 eggs, and now she’s looking back to normal. It was definitely quite the scare.