KerriChick
Songster
Brownie is a 1.5 yr old Buckeye who has always had pasty butt issues. She looks terrible in general right now because she is dead smack in the middle of a full molt, which makes this extra worse because I have to handle her.
She is not standing well, and is very lethargic. Usually she is the first to the front of the run for treats and to be let out! Her crop does look a bit swollen, but it is the end of the day so it's hard to tell if it's just full...she is bare there right now due to molt, so it looks extra poofy.
No other birds are acting unwell at all, and I have checked both the coop and birds for parasites and everything looks clear.
As far as I can tell, she has been acting this way since yesterday afternoonish, but at first I thought she was just dust bathing at the front of the coop, not laying down.
She is my 'special' chicken who doesn't lay, she laid last year until late spring and then just stopped, and has laid two eggs randomly since. I think she just has always had reproductive issues.
There are no signs of trauma other than the larger crop. I hope it's not sour crop!
She is eating a little feed now(organic pellets), not sure what else she's eaten today, we had some brussel sprout and salad scraps in the bucket for them this morning, along with a small handful of mealworms that they get once each day.
I have given her a butt bath as it was pretty nasty, and she is in a box in our bathroom until she gets dry enough to go back in the coop.
Her poop is kinda white and chalky looking and runny with a strong weirdish smell(not normal poop smell), no parasites visible there either.
So far I have only washed her off in a lukewarm bath and toweled her gently, I was thinking trying some electrolytes. I will look up things to do for sour crop while I am waiting for responses here.
Depending on the general consensus, we will nurse her here or take her to a vet if there is a treatment they can give. If it is a lost cause we will deal with that too.
They are in a prefab coop(4 birds) in fairly close quarters right now, moving them to a bigger roomier coop next week! I have aspen shavings in the floor of the roost area, and just cleaned it well a week ago. They are mostly confined to their run here, but I do let them out to forage a bit-they were out yesterday for a few hours. Maybe she ate something weird?
Here are some pictures of her crop and body, but she just looks so bad because of her molt it's hard to tell what's going on! Her comb is nice and red, so that's good!
Just went to check on her in her box, she's perked up a bit and is standing and eating. Maybe she just needed a spa day?
(warning, chicken poop photo ahead)
She is not standing well, and is very lethargic. Usually she is the first to the front of the run for treats and to be let out! Her crop does look a bit swollen, but it is the end of the day so it's hard to tell if it's just full...she is bare there right now due to molt, so it looks extra poofy.
No other birds are acting unwell at all, and I have checked both the coop and birds for parasites and everything looks clear.
As far as I can tell, she has been acting this way since yesterday afternoonish, but at first I thought she was just dust bathing at the front of the coop, not laying down.
She is my 'special' chicken who doesn't lay, she laid last year until late spring and then just stopped, and has laid two eggs randomly since. I think she just has always had reproductive issues.
There are no signs of trauma other than the larger crop. I hope it's not sour crop!
She is eating a little feed now(organic pellets), not sure what else she's eaten today, we had some brussel sprout and salad scraps in the bucket for them this morning, along with a small handful of mealworms that they get once each day.
I have given her a butt bath as it was pretty nasty, and she is in a box in our bathroom until she gets dry enough to go back in the coop.
Her poop is kinda white and chalky looking and runny with a strong weirdish smell(not normal poop smell), no parasites visible there either.
So far I have only washed her off in a lukewarm bath and toweled her gently, I was thinking trying some electrolytes. I will look up things to do for sour crop while I am waiting for responses here.
Depending on the general consensus, we will nurse her here or take her to a vet if there is a treatment they can give. If it is a lost cause we will deal with that too.
They are in a prefab coop(4 birds) in fairly close quarters right now, moving them to a bigger roomier coop next week! I have aspen shavings in the floor of the roost area, and just cleaned it well a week ago. They are mostly confined to their run here, but I do let them out to forage a bit-they were out yesterday for a few hours. Maybe she ate something weird?
Here are some pictures of her crop and body, but she just looks so bad because of her molt it's hard to tell what's going on! Her comb is nice and red, so that's good!
Just went to check on her in her box, she's perked up a bit and is standing and eating. Maybe she just needed a spa day?
(warning, chicken poop photo ahead)
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