Our little Suzi is sick

[micstrachan]

Try a few mealworms then wait a couple minutes and try the eggs again. Sometimes it seems like they need a kick start to eat when they are ill.

Agree.

 

[MTR]

What are the poops like? You said Opal had worms - you sure? I had Coccidia once which was making my chickens shed pieces of stomach lining that I thought was worms. I treated for worms and kept loosing chickens. I took some poop to a vet and they told me the stringy stuff was lining and gave me the Coccidia diagnosis. Some treatments and we were back to normal with everyone else.

 

[Eggcessive]

A product such as Poultry NutriDrench or Poultry Cell is good to give a quick boost of electrolytes, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids, giving 1 ml orally per every 3 pounds of weight daily. What product and dose of wormer did you use? If you have any pictures of the droppings she is producing, that would be good. Feel of her crop to see if it has emptied overnight.

 

[humblocal]

Morning folks I checked her belly against another chicken and it feels like she is bloated, what would be the next steps?

 

[Eggcessive]

Are you checking her crop in her right upper chest or her abdomen between her legs? Does it feel full and puffy, hard, or doughy?

 

[humblocal]

What are the poops like? You said Opal had worms - you sure? I had Coccidia once which was making my chickens shed pieces of stomach lining that I thought was worms. I treated for worms and kept loosing chickens. I took some poop to a vet and they told me the stringy stuff was lining and gave me the Coccidia diagnosis. Some treatments and we were back to normal with everyone else.

I will grab a sample later to check out

 

[humblocal]

Are you checking her crop in her right upper chest or her abdomen between her legs? Does it feel full and puffy, hard, or doughy?

I just checked her belly compared to her sister, the sister belly felt like an egg was in there, Suzi's was a little more mushy

 

[micstrachan]

That could be ascites, which could be from a number of different things. Is an avian vet an option? If she were mine, I’d ask an avian vet to tap the fluid and go from there.

When you got her at the beginning of July, was she a chick?

 

[micstrachan]

@humblocal how is your girl?