Symptoms-
Mopey
not eating much
not drinking
crouched down look
constant puckering/ unpuckering of vent.
Cant feel an egg ( I even "went in" and couldnt feel one)
vent is empty, no poop although after her "exam" she did produce some very liquidy, yellow stool
The rest of the flock is more than fine and normal. I soaked her in warm water to see if maybe she was bound... nothing.... she is currently wrapped and a towel being dried off and warmed by my daughter. my daughter is VERY attached to this chicken, Sunnyside. Anything we can do we will. We have no bird vets in the area so unless someone knows a vet in the king/pierce county are of Washington state, a vet isnt an option at this point.She will be put on Tylan as a precaution but any advice? I've been looking through many threads but havent found just the right answer. Thanks!!
Mopey
not eating much
not drinking
crouched down look
constant puckering/ unpuckering of vent.
Cant feel an egg ( I even "went in" and couldnt feel one)
vent is empty, no poop although after her "exam" she did produce some very liquidy, yellow stool
The rest of the flock is more than fine and normal. I soaked her in warm water to see if maybe she was bound... nothing.... she is currently wrapped and a towel being dried off and warmed by my daughter. my daughter is VERY attached to this chicken, Sunnyside. Anything we can do we will. We have no bird vets in the area so unless someone knows a vet in the king/pierce county are of Washington state, a vet isnt an option at this point.She will be put on Tylan as a precaution but any advice? I've been looking through many threads but havent found just the right answer. Thanks!!
SO for the past month or so she's been gavin soft shelled eggs. Weird, so we upped her calcium. Still no luck. Yesterday she was making noises like she needed to lay and egg but never did. Started getting mopey, not eating/drinking, fluffed feathers, sulking head her vent was doing the same puckering like fish lips when a fish is out of water, her eyes were just not responsive to me... like she was looking straight through me. I immediately started researching and came up with egg bound or egg peritonitis.. As far as I felt there was no inflammation or any lumps. Finally she laid a shell less egg, but was still not right. Her poops were runny and had yellow, like the chalky yellow color of a cooked egg yolk. This matched up with egg peritonitis symptoms... maybe an egg had popped and she was pooping yolk. I decided things couldn't wait. Took her to the vet, they ran a culture test and said she has a raging infection at her egg tube opening which causes it to malfunction and not shell eggs. The vet also said that many people misdiagnose this as egg peritonitis or being egg bound. Beep got a big shot of antibiotics and was better last night. If you have an avian vet, I would go. If not, antibiotics could't hurt. I hope this helps! Crazy out of all the hours of internet research i did, nothing was the same answer as the vet gave me. I hope your girls get better.
