Mortality rate in treatment of egg bound chicken

[ksbkeys]

Hi everyone - just a little update
She went into surgery today, and they thought that it was a rotten egg, but turns out that her stomach content went rotton, and there was no egg. Her stomach was full of grass and dirt and so on, which eventually fermented
Crazy!
So she had her stomach flushed, and is staying there for the night
Luckily she woke up from the anaesthesia and is doing okay
Will keep you guys updated
Really hoping she pulls through!

Please do let us know!

 

[coach723]

Was it her crop that was impacted? Chickens don't have a stomach, they have a crop, gizzard, intestines, it would be good to know for future readers of this thread who might be looking for help, where it was. @LaFleche may have been correct in post #11 when she suspected they might be seeing the gizzard on the x ray...

 

[chicki291]

Was it her crop that was impacted? Chickens don't have a stomach, they have a crop, gizzard, intestines, it would be good to know for future readers of this thread who might be looking for help, where it was. @LaFleche may have been correct in post #11 when she suspected they might be seeing the gizzard on the x ray...

Oh yes sorry the gizzard!
Her crop was fine, always emptying. But her gizzard was impacted
The lump honestly felt like an egg or hard rock, so that’s why we all thought it was an egg
I’ll insert a picture for you guys on how she’s looking, tomorrow morning i can go fetch her. They just want to see if she is able to make normal droppings
Post #11 was definitely correct!

 

[LaFleche]

A chicken's gizzard will usually be full of all kinds of things they picked up over the course of the day, like grass, insects, feed, little stones (grit) and crushed oyster shells/egg shells etc.

So each time I butchered a chicken their gizzard was filled to the brim hard stone hard because of it.

I just hope your little girl will recover well from this (misdiagnosing) ordeal. She is lucky to have you as her owner.

Edit to add: What happened to her feet/toes? Did she lose part of her toes to frost bite? are some of her nails overgrown forcing her toes to bend this way?

 

[chicki291]

A chicken's gizzard will usually be full of all kinds of things they picked up over the course of the day, like grass, insects, feed, little stones (grit) and crushed oyster shells/egg shells etc.

So each time I butchered a chicken their gizzard was filled to the brim hard stone hard because of it.

I just hope your little girl will recover well from this (misdiagnosing) ordeal. She is lucky to have you as her owner.

Edit to add: What happened to her feet/toes? Did she lose part of her toes to frost bite? are some of her nails overgrown forcing her toes to bend this way?

She had a vitamin B2 deficiency when she was still a chick
Both her feet were bent inwards and she was walking on her “knuckles”, if you could call it that haha
We’ve treated her with anti-inflammatories, and her feet have mostly gone straight again
Unfortunately the left foot never got completely straight as you can see in the picture, and eventually a bump formed on one of those toes. Almost like a bunion
This past weekend her feet have started bending more inwards again
I think it might be due to the weight of that lump she had? Not sure
But she is still able to walk and scratch around, and i try to keep her nails short

 

[LaFleche]

She had a vitamin B2 deficiency when she was still a chick
Both her feet were bent inwards and she was walking on her “knuckles”, if you could call it that haha
We’ve treated her with anti-inflammatories, and her feet have mostly gone straight again
Unfortunately the left foot never got completely straight as you can see in the picture, and eventually a bump formed on one of those toes. Almost like a bunion
This past weekend her feet have started bending more inwards again
I think it might be due to the weight of that lump she had? Not sure
But she is still able to walk and scratch around, and i try to keep her nails short

Maybe supplement her with a vitamin B complex and vitamin E on a regular basis., starting with B complex twice a week and E once a month. You can get the ones for humans from your super market.
Sometimes chicken have a heredatary condition causing problems with the uptake of vitamins, mostly B.

 

[chicki291]

Maybe supplement her with a vitamin B complex and vitamin E on a regular basis., starting with B complex twice a week and E once a month. You can get the ones for humans from your super market.
Sometimes chicken have a heredatary condition causing problems with the uptake of vitamins, mostly B.

Yes I think that might be her case
We keep multivitamins in her water at all times
I also bought some vitamin B2 tablets a while back that I mix into her food every now and again

Her feet were doing well until recently, but tomorrow I will definitely give her some more vitamins
Hopefully it will also give her a jumpstart to her recovery process

 

[LaFleche]

We keep multivitamins in her water at all times

Be careful not to overdose as some vitamins will have a poisonous effect if given too often/too much.

 

[chicki291]

Be careful not to overdose as some vitamins will have a poisonous effect if given too often/too much.

Will do! We have cats and a dog too, so there are many water bowls in the garden and in the house
Sometimes she drinks out of the vitamin bowl and other times the normal water
The cats and dog don't drink the vitamin water

 

[chicki291]

Unfortunately she won’t be coming home today
The vet said that she hasn’t been eating well enough to be discharged yet
She is still pooping, but her poops are mostly urates
So they will be keeping her there until she eats and poops normally