Please help! Don’t know what’s wrong with her.

[Mitchellwhitey]

What is wrong with this chicken? My mother and I are trying to figure out and it’s been like this since yesterday. Please help me, she can still poop.

 

[MROO]

Toys are a good idea! Cabbage is an awesome boredom buster. Last summer, we cut a long watermelon in half, lengthwise and set it in the run. They turned it into a seesaw! Another good toy is a Dollar Store wiffle ball (it's a cheap, plastic baseball with holes in it.) When it's cold (like now) we fill it with a mixture of fats drained from our own dinner, leftover fruits, veggies and scratch. In the warmer months, we use peanut butter, scratch and frozen produce. If you give them a ball, be sure to allow time to watch them explore & play with it ... it can be HIGHLY entertaining!

 

[CindyinSD]

It looks like you have a real nice setup there. Looks warm, too. Your signature doesn’t say where you are, and that info (just your general location—nothing specific—state, Provence, country... that kind of thing) could make a difference.

If it’s warm where you are, a daily bum bath in warm (not hot) water with Epsom salts might help. I’ve noticed there are a lot of used wire dog crates available on Craig’s List around here very reasonably. Maybe you could find one cheap or even free where you are, or borrow one from a friend/neighbor. Something like that could work for a “hospital” for her to protect her from the others’ pecking until she heals up. If there’s room you can set the crate inside one of the coops or some other sheltered location at night. You could also make a temporary pen for her from left-over wire fencing/chicken wire, etc. It sounds like she does need some protection from her flock mates.

Did you know you can give your chickens meat scraps, feed them back their eggs (scrambled not raw), and pretty much feed them anything that’s good for you to eat? Healthy stuff, I mean—not junk food. Since you’re limited to what your mom is able/willing to provide, that could be a good way to increase the protein in their diets.

Hoping your girl gets better.

 

[Mitchellwhitey]

It looks like you have a real nice setup there. Looks warm, too. Your signature doesn’t say where you are, and that info (just your general location—nothing specific—state, Provence, country... that kind of thing) could make a difference.

Hi, I'm located in Worcester, Massachusetts. It's awfully COLD here and as a matter a fact, tomorrow we're getting 3-5 inches of snow. It's snowy here. The picture I sent above was an old picture (maybe a year old). Coop looks the same but snow comes a lot here in New England.

 

[Mitchellwhitey]

She really needs to come inside to be bathed and dried thoroughly before putting her back out in the coop. If you could just bathe her vent area, that would be good. Chickens with this kind of problem usually require a few days of soaks to get the skin to heal. But this cannot be done if they are out in the cold. If possible, bring her in, treat her, dry her, then take her back to the coop.

She could have suffered a partial prolapse, or part of he cloaca could have been exposed as she was laying an egg, which in turn, caused the others to peck at the red. Or she might have vent gleet, a fungal infection of her digestive tract. The runny droppings could also be from a reproductive disorder or infection, and the vent pecking can damage the vent where droppings slowly constantly drip out. That drainage can cause burning of the skin, and in warm weather, attract maggots.

Vent pecking can easily lead to cannibalism in chickens. Some reasons are overcrowding, not getting outside to roam around, boredom, a lack of protein and a balanced chicken feed in the diet, and some breeds can be more aggressive than others.

What do you feed? How much room is there for the chickens?

Hello,
I do not provide the food, my mother does. The feed is called Purina Layena Crumbles. There is room for over 30 chickens in my chicken run. Now we have another chicken coop to the right of the one inside. So a total of 3 chicken coops, and the chicken run built from my family and I. Also, my mother is totally against bringing the chicken inside because she thinks it will attack her and/or make her sick. And as you were saying, I personally think the hen has a partial prolapse because I was just reading an article and it seems to be exactly what it is. Is there any other methods besides bringing the hen inside my house and cleaning her? (as terrible as it sounds )

 

[Mitchellwhitey]

Update as of today 3/16: I forgot to update, I cleaned her out and that day I cleaned her I found another one bleeding even worse than the original one. We ended their sufferings as all of the flock were chasing the two down to peck at them which would’ve led to cannibalism anyways. So we ended their sufferings, May the two hens Rest In Peace

 

[Peppercorngal]

Is her belly distended at all? How does it feel? The white stuff looks very similar to what poops from a chicken that is "internally laying" look like. I also see the red sore. Is she eating? Walking around like nothing is wrong, or is she rather listless, walking like a pregnant woman? Does she hold her wings up or are they droopy?

 

[Mitchellwhitey]

Is her belly distended at all? How does it feel? The white stuff looks very similar to what poops from a chicken that is "internally laying" look like. I also see the red sore. Is she eating? Walking around like nothing is wrong, or is she rather listless, walking like a pregnant woman? Does she hold her wings up or are they droopy?

She is perfectly fine. Everything you asked, she’s perfect. All besides the red sore and that’s pretty much it.

 

[Boonie Stomper]

Do you see anything coming out of the rel lump itself (is there a hole oozing stuff)?

 

[Mitchellwhitey]

Do you see anything coming out of the rel lump itself (is there a hole oozing stuff)?

This has stopped, but yesterday BESIDE the red lump there were white liquids just dropping out. Today during my time inside the run, I saw her poop twice.