Listless hen

[Arivis2]

Should I give her an epsom salts bath

We have 6 hens and had 6 eggs yesterday. Can they get egg bound that fast?

 

[Arivis2]

Should I give her an epsom salts bath

Should I give her an epsom salts bath

epsom salts bath - how much salt to water?

 

[Arivis2]

Have you checked her crop? Is is squishy or hard?

Squishy. I just read about sour crop. I isolated her, gently massaged top to bottom on her breast and I'm preparing a epsom salt bath.

 

[Kiki]

They get a lettuce or corn cob treat in the morning to share. I feed them the same chicken feed they've had since they started laying. They are all a year old in july. I don't know of anything new in their diet. Everyone else is fine

Feeding treats, like lettuce and especially corn, daily is not good. Feeding treats like that takes away from them getting a balanced diet which leads to problems.
Please rethink feeding treats daily before more birds become ill.

 

[Kiki]

epsom salts bath - how much salt to water?

No. Never ever put a sick chicken in a bath unless you feel a stuck egg.

Doing so can actually kill the bird.

 

[Arivis2]

One of my Rhode Island Reds was just standing at the door this morning, i stated petting her and she had no response, I set her out, she didn't move, I held her, her craw seems bloated. She layed down by a dish of lettuce and isn'tt eating. Closing her eyes. Help

I just watched a video about sour crop. He breast feels like it fluid filled and that's how the gal described her chicken. She used Monistat 7 1/2 ml 2x a day for 3 days to get rid of the yeast infection. Does anyone know anything about that?

 

[Three Little Chicks]

epsom salts bath - how much salt to water?

Only give her Epsom salt bath to calm her if she is egg bound. You need to gently put you pinky (gloved and with a gel lub or Vaseline type thing) and see if you feel egg pieces or an egg that's stuck. . google chicken anatomy so you know what to expect. And google how to help an egg bound chicken it will give a better description than I can. But having done it if the egg is in there you will probably feel it within an inch or so.

 

[Arivis2]

Incase it's sour crop would you put ASV in her water?

 

[Three Little Chicks]

Also both poo and the egg come out but from different tracks, I think if she's egg bound you'll feel if fairly immediately more upward than downward. But google chicken anatomy so you know where to look. Good luck to you both let us know.....

 

[Three Little Chicks]

Here is something about sour crop.and ASV

https://www.chickenvet.co.uk/sour-c...difficult as,infection needs to be controlled.