Pain while pooping, stuck egg, impacted crop? Favorite hen! Help!

[azygous]

Yes, it's the same amoxicillin that comes labeled for humans. I am a pretty busy person, so I just pop the entire capsule into my patient's beak. Pull down on the wattles, and the beak opens magically.

More meticulous folks here divide it into two doses, giving it twelve hours apart so, theoretically, the antibiotic will be a constant in her body. But I've never had a patient not get well with the one full dose. So you decide. As far as I'm concerned either choice is valid and effective.

 

[HopieGirl4Ever]

Got the antibiotics today. Haven't used them yet, because I wanted to check in with you - all day yesterday and today she's been acting totally fine. Eating, drinking, energy back, her old self. Should I still give her a round of antibiotics?

 

[azygous]

Since she had that egg collapse inside her, even though she likely passed all the remains, it's still wise to treat her with the antibiotic in case inflammation occurred and bacteria began to grow. Even though she's feeling better, I would do the antibiotic for seven days. Feed any eggs she lays back to her during the treatment and for seven days after the final dose.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

@azygous , Just curious how does a blind chicken lay? I mean I guess I understand once in a while but dont they lay by the light? IE: When days are short and they stop laying you increase the light.

 

[azygous]

Hi Granny! You're right. Blind chickens do not need to be able to see light in order for light to affect their reproductive systems. Light can be perceived by photo-receptors in the retina of the eye, pineal gland, and hypothalamus. In fact, the light that hits the retina least affects laying of all those three receptors.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Thanks , very cool information .

 

[HopieGirl4Ever]

Gave her her first dose today, as a full capsule. Took me a while but I managed to get it into her She seems to have quite a bit of undigested crumble feed in her droppings this morning, and she has a tiny bit of food still in her crop. I made her crumble wet today, hopefully that'll help, and I'm also still adding chick grit to her food. We've had periods of time in the past when she'd have undigested droppings for a while, but then it stopped. I should probably just start giving her easy soft food for a while? We cook them rice and oatmeal from time to time. She still acts pretty normal, she was drinking a lot when I left her.

 

[BugStalker]

After the antibiotics, maybe even before finishing them, probiotics would be good in helping to reduce fungal growth that slows the crop. Human probiotics will work. Add it to the water or food, change daily.

 

[Bronwenemma]

I have had a very similar problem. Jasmine passed a broken egg yesterday along with some very offensive green poo but to look at her today you wouldn’t think anything has been wrong at all. No egg today though and her poo has returned to a more normal soft brown and white but still a little offensive. I took her to the vet and she was happy to prescribe antibiotics but she told me that if she takes them we can never eat her eggs ever again???? I was quite surprised by this advice, is anyone else?
As her poo is returning to normal and her behaviour is completely back to normal I refused the antibiotics, have I don’t the right thing?

 

[Eggcessive]

I have had a very similar problem. Jasmine passed a broken egg yesterday along with some very offensive green poo but to look at her today you wouldn’t think anything has been wrong at all. No egg today though and her poo has returned to a more normal soft brown and white but still a little offensive. I took her to the vet and she was happy to prescribe antibiotics but she told me that if she takes them we can never eat her eggs ever again???? I was quite surprised by this advice, is anyone else?
As her poo is returning to normal and her behaviour is completely back to normal I refused the antibiotics, have I don’t the right thing?

Antibiotics are not approved for laying hens. Many use an antibiotic to treat a specific problem, such as when one has an egg break inside or to treat salpingitis in early stages. It is up to the person whether or not to ever eat the eggs again. Vets do not want to be liable for anyone becoming sick or developing an antibiotic resistant infection. Baytril is one that is banned in chickens in the US, but it is one of the best to give that treats E.coli and mycoplasma, 2 of the several bacteria that can infect the reproductive tract. Farad the organization that approves of drugs in chicken approves of very few drugs in poultry. Many people use antibiotics with a 14 day egg withdrawal, while some drugs may need for a month. With Baytril, many chickens have reproductive disorders where they don’t lay eggs anymore, so the decision is not as hard to make, whether or not to use it.