Pullet rapidly deteriorating, drooping head, no poop over 24 hours, not eating and only dropper feeding

[Wyorp Rock]

Thank you! Will find calcium!

She is on organic layer feed, periodic oyster shells, forage in the run, and we periodically throw in kitchen scraps including cruahed egg shells and worms and the like. I threw in some cucumbers with pickleworms that she wasnt interested in but everyone else loved, which is what tipped me off. In Hawai'i!

Diet sounds pretty good. I'd see if she improves with the Calcium.

Keep us posted.

 

[Ponypoor]

She had a poop! First in 24 hours. The one from yesterday doesn't have the green. Head is less droopy now, hoping it stays so! Improvement? Maybe the poop will tell you something...

Did you inspect the poops to see what was in them? Maybe she ate something she is having a hard time passing. I recently had to do crop surgery on my young hen, her crop was packed with grassy hay, green grass and grain. The grass and hay was all tangled together in her crop, I had a devil of a time clearing it out. I was worried it had left it too long she had lost way too much weight.

As another suggested, I would continue with the fluids, see if she will eat some scrambled eggs.

 

[knownothinghomesteader]

Today she isn't head drooping, still not feeding without dropper, had another poop (green liquid and large white harder urate), but is hanging in there! I can't feel anything in the crop and certainly couldn't do crop surgery, yikes!