Thank you! I think the gurgling was due to handling while we worked on her backside her head was below her body and maybe my husband held her too snuggly. I don’t know if she is laying or not. I thought so but then today our smallest hen layer an egg and I thought she was the one that wasn’t laying. I know I read an article on this site regarding the difference in vents between a layer and a non layer. I will follow up tomorrow. Till then, fingers crossed
She actually came out of her coop today and seems more fiesta. I sure hope she’s on the mend!
That's great!
How’s she today?
About the same, she comes out, walks around but is now back up in the coop. Her crop doesn’t seem to be the problem now. I’m wondering if something else is wrong. She will be a year old in May but may be the one that hasn’t started laying yet. They are all the same age but really took a long time to start laying eggs and one still isn’t. I don’t think I feel anything hard between her vent and legs. She is at least drinking water today!
. It sure puts her in a tailspin when we bring her in but there is no way she could clean that up herself.
How is she doing now?Today is the first day since I first reported a sick chicken, that she actually joined the group to race for meal worms! Can’t tell you how happy I was to see this.
We have given her two sits baths to clean her vent and surrounding area of liquid yellow and black poo. She looks like she is getting a bit messy again
We are still getting only one egg a day, some times none when it used to be two pretty regularly. Will certainly keep a close eye on her/them. We only have three and had talked about getting two more. Will have to see how this goes. Thanks again for all the advice! I do have the pedialite in one water container and plain in the other.
She recovered for about 5 days then kinda stayed to herself again for a day or two and now seems to be just fine again. She will be a year old on Monday and still isn’t laying
The co-op girls figure it’s still too cold 40s during the day and 30s at night, to count on them laying most days. I have no vets around my area to take her to. So we just keep her clean r/t occasional diarrhea versus liquid egg? Thanks for asking!
