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- Jan 21, 2016
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The starter is not medicated. She is preferring the scrambled egg over anything else right now. She has eaten approximately 1/2 a scrambled egg today. I have made a batch of the electrolyte water that you sent me to the link to and have made her drink a few drops of that. She has not had any yogurt for a few hours.
Maybe I used the wrong word when trying to describe her poo. It isn't thin or liquidy. It is sort of solid. The problem seems to be that she can't push it out. Pardon this analogy, but it's almost like a tube of toothpaste...like the "toothpaste" just sits there unitl I push it out. She cries a little when I do that. Yes, today, I noticed a tinge of blood and her vent does look irritated, and it is always (since I have been checking) filled with poo. Each time I check on her, I am able to squeeze some out, like tube of toothpaste. I have bathed her bottom in warm water a couple of times today to get the poo off of her feathers, but this seems to really stress her out, so I don't want to do it more than I need to.
The other pullets seem fine. I am checking on them regularly, too. Will check again for poopy butts.
The first sign of this one being sick was when I noticed she couldn't walk and it was 105 heat index outside. The poop issue wasn't noticed until I brought her in and began to tend closely to her, realizing she couldn't push the poo out. She was not dirty with poo when I first brought her in.
Your help is so much appreciated!!
Maybe I used the wrong word when trying to describe her poo. It isn't thin or liquidy. It is sort of solid. The problem seems to be that she can't push it out. Pardon this analogy, but it's almost like a tube of toothpaste...like the "toothpaste" just sits there unitl I push it out. She cries a little when I do that. Yes, today, I noticed a tinge of blood and her vent does look irritated, and it is always (since I have been checking) filled with poo. Each time I check on her, I am able to squeeze some out, like tube of toothpaste. I have bathed her bottom in warm water a couple of times today to get the poo off of her feathers, but this seems to really stress her out, so I don't want to do it more than I need to.
The other pullets seem fine. I am checking on them regularly, too. Will check again for poopy butts.
The first sign of this one being sick was when I noticed she couldn't walk and it was 105 heat index outside. The poop issue wasn't noticed until I brought her in and began to tend closely to her, realizing she couldn't push the poo out. She was not dirty with poo when I first brought her in.
Your help is so much appreciated!!