HeatherKellyB
✝️ Perfectly Imperfect ✝️
Hi! Let me start by saying thank you for your time and any advice you can share. I know how rare it is for someone to have plenty of time to burn so I sincerely appreciate you sharing your time with me.
I have a 15 month old Crested Cream Legbar hen, Luna Petunia, that's molting. About a week ago I noticed she wasn't participating in the nightly mealworm toss so I picked her up and found that she was very thin. The next morning I checked her crop and found it to be full and firm. I fixed her a kennel inside my shop so I could watch her. She has watery diarrhea with some food/solids as well as sometimes just being water. I did a molasses flush which didn't really produce much more than what I'd been seeing. After that, I think she was pooping more actual solids, but still diarrhea. Her crop still won't empty overnight. She will eat some but only small pieces. I can't keep her out of her poop but that seems to be a favorite place for her to find what she wants to eat No matter what, she digs and eats the little bits out. I can't seem to keep it removed fast enough or with enough repetition as she poops. I did administer Valblazen on November 1st and with so much going on, I completely forgot to administer again in 10 days. (I administered Valblazen after finding a round worm in the run. No idea who it came from, but my Polish has been doing much better since. Of course that could be a coincidence) I know I'll need to start the process over. So my concerns are her crop not emptying, diarrhea and her being a pile of bones. I'm not sure if it's from being malnourished or if she's craving something in particular that she's finding in her poop. She likes to eat bits of sand outside and I've noticed her eating pine shavings multiple times. I started keeping her in the kennel about a week ago, I believe, and this is still going on. What would you suggest I do for this hen? I was going to do the massages with coconut oil, but to be honest I'm not sure what treatment to go with this. She enjoys joining her flock and chasing them around and even still picks fights with my Bantams now that she's in their area. She really needs to absorb some nutrients, use the food she eats and get some of her weight back on.
Thank you again for your time and any and all input you can provide. I sincerely appreciate it
I have a 15 month old Crested Cream Legbar hen, Luna Petunia, that's molting. About a week ago I noticed she wasn't participating in the nightly mealworm toss so I picked her up and found that she was very thin. The next morning I checked her crop and found it to be full and firm. I fixed her a kennel inside my shop so I could watch her. She has watery diarrhea with some food/solids as well as sometimes just being water. I did a molasses flush which didn't really produce much more than what I'd been seeing. After that, I think she was pooping more actual solids, but still diarrhea. Her crop still won't empty overnight. She will eat some but only small pieces. I can't keep her out of her poop but that seems to be a favorite place for her to find what she wants to eat No matter what, she digs and eats the little bits out. I can't seem to keep it removed fast enough or with enough repetition as she poops. I did administer Valblazen on November 1st and with so much going on, I completely forgot to administer again in 10 days. (I administered Valblazen after finding a round worm in the run. No idea who it came from, but my Polish has been doing much better since. Of course that could be a coincidence) I know I'll need to start the process over. So my concerns are her crop not emptying, diarrhea and her being a pile of bones. I'm not sure if it's from being malnourished or if she's craving something in particular that she's finding in her poop. She likes to eat bits of sand outside and I've noticed her eating pine shavings multiple times. I started keeping her in the kennel about a week ago, I believe, and this is still going on. What would you suggest I do for this hen? I was going to do the massages with coconut oil, but to be honest I'm not sure what treatment to go with this. She enjoys joining her flock and chasing them around and even still picks fights with my Bantams now that she's in their area. She really needs to absorb some nutrients, use the food she eats and get some of her weight back on.
Thank you again for your time and any and all input you can provide. I sincerely appreciate it