- Apr 8, 2014
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Hi I have been a long time reader of BYC very valuable info .
I am having trouble with one of my chickens she is approx 3 years old . The first thing i noticed was she was standing alone and not very energetic I looked her over and noticed a swollen crop ( BTW i know the difference between a crop and gizzard =) ) anyways It felt like a blown up balloon but it was watery sounding I gently massaged and squeezed her crop and some nasty black watery goo came out and she went back to eating the next day it was the same and I squeezed some more black goo out. I separated her from the others and I suspected a partially blocked gizzard or a sour crop that may have caused an infection . She was pooping yellowish watery nasty smelling poop as well. I had another hen die approx 6 months earlier before I realized what was going on and the necropsy I did showed a piece of crushed peach pit lodged in the gizzard.
She was still drinking at first but she slowed down drinking and eating now she has lost most of her mass and is wobbly and weak and her comb listed to the side. I believe she is still eating a tiny bit and drinking very little and i am force feeding her "super booster" antibiotic mix with vitamins and some blended liquified eggs mixed with the antibiotic water. Her poop was yellowish and watery but its not still watery but brown.
She has been this way for approx 3 weeks and has been on the antibiotic water for 3 days with a tiny bit of improvement I'm not sure how she is still living and i have been thinking of putting her out of her misery.
Things I have tried:
At first when she was eating i fed her Vaseline/olive oil on bread.
Massaging crop and trying to massage gizzard (i believe i can feel the gizzard or some sort of hard mass if its not the gizzard she is just that skinny)
Force feeding Antibiotic vitamin water and Liquified eggs for the last few days.
Force feed mineral oil which caused her to poop a lot of watery poop.
warm bath and heat lamp.
I am noticing a very tiny improvement as she ate a few pieces of damp crushed up crackers and a little bit of cut up baloney but not enough to make a difference.
I do not suspect her to have worms but it has crossed my mind , I have never noticed any odd worm like things in her poop or the other hens poop but they do eat bugs and grass and are outside of the cage foraging quite often but it has been cold so no bugs were available or not many .
If anyone can suggest something else for me to try or give a diagnosis that would be great other than being weak, skinny and her comb to the side she looks normal her eyes dont look different or any mucus in her nose or anything and none of my other hens seem sick. I believe if she doesn't improve within the next couple of days I will have to put her down as she has suffered longer than she should have.
I am having trouble with one of my chickens she is approx 3 years old . The first thing i noticed was she was standing alone and not very energetic I looked her over and noticed a swollen crop ( BTW i know the difference between a crop and gizzard =) ) anyways It felt like a blown up balloon but it was watery sounding I gently massaged and squeezed her crop and some nasty black watery goo came out and she went back to eating the next day it was the same and I squeezed some more black goo out. I separated her from the others and I suspected a partially blocked gizzard or a sour crop that may have caused an infection . She was pooping yellowish watery nasty smelling poop as well. I had another hen die approx 6 months earlier before I realized what was going on and the necropsy I did showed a piece of crushed peach pit lodged in the gizzard.
She was still drinking at first but she slowed down drinking and eating now she has lost most of her mass and is wobbly and weak and her comb listed to the side. I believe she is still eating a tiny bit and drinking very little and i am force feeding her "super booster" antibiotic mix with vitamins and some blended liquified eggs mixed with the antibiotic water. Her poop was yellowish and watery but its not still watery but brown.
She has been this way for approx 3 weeks and has been on the antibiotic water for 3 days with a tiny bit of improvement I'm not sure how she is still living and i have been thinking of putting her out of her misery.
Things I have tried:
At first when she was eating i fed her Vaseline/olive oil on bread.
Massaging crop and trying to massage gizzard (i believe i can feel the gizzard or some sort of hard mass if its not the gizzard she is just that skinny)
Force feeding Antibiotic vitamin water and Liquified eggs for the last few days.
Force feed mineral oil which caused her to poop a lot of watery poop.
warm bath and heat lamp.
I am noticing a very tiny improvement as she ate a few pieces of damp crushed up crackers and a little bit of cut up baloney but not enough to make a difference.
I do not suspect her to have worms but it has crossed my mind , I have never noticed any odd worm like things in her poop or the other hens poop but they do eat bugs and grass and are outside of the cage foraging quite often but it has been cold so no bugs were available or not many .
If anyone can suggest something else for me to try or give a diagnosis that would be great other than being weak, skinny and her comb to the side she looks normal her eyes dont look different or any mucus in her nose or anything and none of my other hens seem sick. I believe if she doesn't improve within the next couple of days I will have to put her down as she has suffered longer than she should have.
