Options for egg bound bantam pullet

[azygous]

Chickens are built to swallow large bites, including large pills. Humans have a hard time swallowing large pills because we start to digest our food by chewing. Chickens swallow before they begin their digestive process in their crops and gizzards. Even baby chicks will swallow a large "bite". Give a week-old chick a meal worm and see what happens to it. (Grit required before you try this stunt.)

 

[HeatherKellyB]

I was able to get the 500mg amoxicillin capsule in her. That went so much better than I thought. I am so shocked at how fast this has progressed. How can something so horrible be going on with a chicken that I pick up and hold (she enjoys it) multiple times a day, every day, without me suspecting anything? I believe you all are correct in what's going on, but I am just so upset that I didn't catch this earlier

 

[HeatherKellyB]

750mg Tums, 500mg Amoxicillin, olive oil in the vent, placed in a crate indoors, with a towel over it, and water. Anything else I can/should do this afternoon, other than pray? Does she need more calcium (calcium citrate) today?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I wouldn't give her any more calcium until tomorrow.
Do what you can to keep her comfortable, be sure to get some photos of poop/what's coming out if possible.

I'm hoping she will be o.k.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

This is bad, right? @azygous @Wyorp Rock

 

[HeatherKellyB]

That's all of the oil that I was able to get in before she was seriously straining and then this came out. She seemed to feel a little better after expelling this, but I'm not getting my hopes up because it's a lot of blood clots, especially for a 1 lb bird

 

[azygous]

I'm sorry to say that it appears she may not be eggbound afterall. The clots indicate she is suffering internal bleeding and the clots may be what is blocking her. Is her comb pale?

Keep up the treatment. You never know how things will turn out.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Her comb and wattles have been red the entire time but her face has been pale. What on earth would have caused this?

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Fatty Liver Syndrome?

 

[HeatherKellyB]

I guess there any many different things it could be. I did feel an egg last night/very early this morning, just inside her vent and later this morning I couldn't feel the egg. Her dropping were tinted yellow, like the egg had broken inside. I thought it was urates, but it was far too yellow to be only urates.