Big Ska Farm
Chirping
- Dec 13, 2024
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Hello all,
This is my second post to back yard chickens. Like many of you I imagine I'm here now to contribute, but it is my injured chicken that motivated me to join.
I'm at a loss as to why this almost two year old speckled sussex is straining to poop nearly three weeks after her attack. The details are as follows. About three weeks ago I found her in one of the nesting boxes nearly pecked to death. She had been molting and my guess is one of her flock pecked a feather and there was some blood and then the attack started. All of her feathers were gone off of her tail and a large portion of her back, belly and a significant amount of feathers on both wings. If it had gone on much longer she would have been killed.
I immdeiatey seperated her. She's in a tote on my laundry room. Treated her with vetracin, started the perdue stress electrolyte in her water, supplimental heat. What has me terribly concerned is that she is "crying" when she poops. And when she does the poop does not fall from her cloaca like it normally would. Her rear end was norribly pecked and although initially I thought it was a stuck egg, or constipation I don't think it is. I treated her for both a stuck egg (epsom salt baths daily) and for constipation (epsome salt and molasses given orally) and nothing has really changed. I don't feel a stuck egg, no way it could be after three weeks? She is eating and drinking normally. Her feathers are coming back in, but she still strains to go poop and hearing her in pain breaks my heart.
I've added a few photographs of her injury. I just took these a moment ago. Her cloaca is usually like this. Sometimes I hear little farts and shes always leaking some fluid. Pulls the poop hanging off with her beak and flings it. :-/
I would greatly appreciate any advice for poor Skylar.
Fun fact she is the only one who escapes the run regularly. She has figured out that she can make it over the seven foot fence in the run by flying from the top of the ramp over the fence.
This is my second post to back yard chickens. Like many of you I imagine I'm here now to contribute, but it is my injured chicken that motivated me to join.
I'm at a loss as to why this almost two year old speckled sussex is straining to poop nearly three weeks after her attack. The details are as follows. About three weeks ago I found her in one of the nesting boxes nearly pecked to death. She had been molting and my guess is one of her flock pecked a feather and there was some blood and then the attack started. All of her feathers were gone off of her tail and a large portion of her back, belly and a significant amount of feathers on both wings. If it had gone on much longer she would have been killed.
I immdeiatey seperated her. She's in a tote on my laundry room. Treated her with vetracin, started the perdue stress electrolyte in her water, supplimental heat. What has me terribly concerned is that she is "crying" when she poops. And when she does the poop does not fall from her cloaca like it normally would. Her rear end was norribly pecked and although initially I thought it was a stuck egg, or constipation I don't think it is. I treated her for both a stuck egg (epsom salt baths daily) and for constipation (epsome salt and molasses given orally) and nothing has really changed. I don't feel a stuck egg, no way it could be after three weeks? She is eating and drinking normally. Her feathers are coming back in, but she still strains to go poop and hearing her in pain breaks my heart.
I've added a few photographs of her injury. I just took these a moment ago. Her cloaca is usually like this. Sometimes I hear little farts and shes always leaking some fluid. Pulls the poop hanging off with her beak and flings it. :-/
I would greatly appreciate any advice for poor Skylar.
Fun fact she is the only one who escapes the run regularly. She has figured out that she can make it over the seven foot fence in the run by flying from the top of the ramp over the fence.
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