PLEASE HELP! Lethargic chicken

cvlcite

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Sep 5, 2019
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Hello I’m sorry but please can anyone help me out? I have a chicken (I’ve been told she’s a red sex link and I don’t know her age) and today when I got home I let her out of the run and into my yard (which is mostly brick) and she went to go scratch at a corner with some dirt. I go inside for an hour and come out to check on her and she’s no longer out but back in the run

Now I’ve never been able to hold her before she always runs away because she wasn’t raised by hand or anything, she was given to me.

But she let me catch her and hold her and that concerned me. Then I see that she’s moving pretty slow. She has a bit of a droopy Tail and wings but not too much.

I don’t think she’s egg bound because she didn’t have that “penguin pisture” and she also hasn’t laid any eggs in months anyway.

It’s important to note that yesterday there were some landscaping people that sprayed some kind of liquid on the brick to kill weeds but it wasn’t really in the area where my chickens are, but could it be possible that she’s poisoned??

Can anyone tell me if these symptoms sound like something?? Is there anything I can do?? I have another chicken and I’m going to quarantine her just in case it’s something that can catch

I’d appreciate any help at all thank you

Edit; just some more details, she can still walk, I don’t know if she ate today as I got home around 4 and i have their food in a container they can access whenever they want.
 
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Try to get her to take some water and electrolytes would be helpful. You can use Gatorade or Pedialyte as well at room temperature. Most chickens will scarf down some bits of scrambled egg, bits of tuna, salmon, or chopped/ground meat. Wet chicken feed is usually good as well. Feel of her crop first to see if it is empty and flat, full, hard, doughy, or puffy/soft. Then check it again in early morning to see if it is empty, when it normally would be. Check her lower belly under her vent to see if it is enlarged or fuller than others. Look her over for any lice or mites on her skin. Poop pictures can be helpful.
 

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