My RIR Is Going Downhill, Help!

[Sylvestor12]

Her crop isn't hard at all. It's more so squishy than hard. What signs in my hen prompt you guys to say she may need antibiotics?

 

[Sylvestor12]

Her puke isn't green anymore...I'l try to clear my nose good tommorrow so I can get a whiff around her head; maybe there is a bad smell I just wasn't smelling before.
If she starts perking up from the egg yolks I'll update you guys about it!

 

[Haunted55]

Her crop isn't hard at all. It's more so squishy than hard. What signs in my hen prompt you guys to say she may need antibiotics?

I never said she needed antibiotics....I was giving a warning about use of a drug I was told NOT to use for laying hens. Dawg53 was giving information about that drug, because of my post, I believe.

There are many issues with crops and you need to read the thread I linked to and research. Just because her crop is soft doesn't mean that isn't where the problem is.

 

[Sylvestor12]

Well, I'll research squishy crop stuff and I'll say what I think it is after doing a good bit of research. I read the thread you put but I don't think it is anything impacted or a sour crop but I'll look up more cases of it.

 

[Sylvestor12]

UPDATE
My hen is moving more but I noticed something new. I felt her around some more and her bum is bulging. I don't know if it's an egg she'll lay soon or if it's food that's plugged up. Any clues? Does this change what you guys think it might be? Oh and it isn't hard or squishy. It feels like...I don't know, like a stomach bulged up from food.

 

[Sylvestor12]

Oh, and she's stopped puking all together I felt her crop some more and it didn't seem to bother her. Plus, I picked her up and set her down and she didn't even move her beak. Her crop still feels like it's mostly water/liquid though.

 

[Haunted55]

UPDATE
My hen is moving more but I noticed something new. I felt her around some more and her bum is bulging. I don't know if it's an egg she'll lay soon or if it's food that's plugged up. Any clues? Does this change what you guys think it might be? Oh and it isn't hard or squishy. It feels like...I don't know, like a stomach bulged up from food.

bulging as in sticking out? It sounds as if she is possibly egg bound and with a slight prolapse.

http://www.avianweb.com/eggbinding.html
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...is-how-did-it-happen-what-do-i-do-about-it/40 post #49

 

[Sylvestor12]

You guys were right from the start. She had a bacterial infection in her crop. It turns out the bulging was just an egg that she laid that day. I later found her hiding under the nestboxes about a day or two after my last post where other hens have hid to die. She wasn't breathing good and I saw she had more Phoebe. Me thinking that bad stuff like that needs out; I massaged her crop and slightly bent her head down so she could pucker it out. What looked like poo began coming out that smelled like death. After puking a lot up she coughed and her head dropped to the floor. I thought she was dead there and she started convulsing stopping after about 30 seconds. With a heavy heart I got rid of her body. I didn't feel like telling immeadiately but I finally got to it. Well now I've learner for next time; antibiotics just in case.

 

[Sparrow]

"Where other hens have hid to die".....have you lost several from similar symptoms? If so, you need to really revise your care-taking methods and see where the problem is stemming from.

 

[Sylvestor12]

This was the very first time that that case has happened. I don't always clean everything when I need to but are hens are strong, healthy, and in good spirits except for the occasional illness. I've had some cases over the years where they decide to hide under the boxes when they aren't feeling well and die. I take pretty good care of my chickens. I don't like that you're challenging my raising methods just because chickens like hiding when they're sick!