RIR constipated?

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TexiCaliBlues

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Hello everyone! I'm hoping to get some insight into a problem I'm having with one of our girls. I noticed a couple of days ago but she doesn't seem to be herself had a small hard ball in her crop. Gave her garlic water started massaging seemed to loosen it up and I noticed that she passed what looked to be a large dry crusty ball of poop... checked her vent, looks normal and unobstructed.. moist, no crusty poop, just a little bit on the feathers below, I thought that would be the end of the issue however she still does not seem to be quite right..crop is not hard anymore but is squishy in the morning instead of empty, and it seems like I can feel something like perhaps long grass in there. No sour smell to her but I have been watching her and she does not seem to actually be pooping currently only small amounts of what appears to be urine are coming out . (Also no egg for 2 days, she's a pretty regular layer) Gave her a tiny bit of egg with a tablespoon of olive oil this morning to try to get things moving... Other than occasionally sitting in the corner with her tail down she seems to be moving around normal no walking like a penguin no pendulous crop so I'm wondering if maybe she is constipated and what suggestions would y'all have to help handle it.. thank you in advance!
 
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Well, nobody chimed in, but I wanted to do a follow up/update in case anyone else came looking for info...over the last 10 days this poor little Rhode island red chicken has been through a lot. at first I thought I might be dealing with some kind of impaction but after a couple of days of massage she wasn't really changing condition wise I also was not noticing any kind of sour smell from her. She would eat some things mostly grapes or cucumbers but was not free ranging in the yard as much as normal was not vocalizing as much as she usually does and had no interest in her crumble. I also noticed that she didn't seem to be drinking water, but as I said she free ranges so she could have been getting her water source elsewhere. 2 days ago I woke up and went out to let the chickens in the yard and noticed that her comb and wattles were very pale almost completely White, she was a bit lethargic and no longer interested in taking any kind of treats but still moving around a bit. I've been looking over the last 10 days a lot of information on this site and determined that with the combination of her lethargy her decrease actually complete stop in laying when she is normally a daily later and the appearance of the occasional watery poo that I definitely needed to take action. I determined that from her symptoms I was either dealing with a worm infestation or coccidiosis. I have not notice any blood in her poop but upon my reading on this website I realized that only certain strains of the coccidiosis well actually produce blood in feces. I purchased the powdered corid 20 from TSC and began administering the max dose in all Waterers. I monitored her closely and did not see her drinking so I used a medicine plunger and gently hand fed her the medicated water small amounts at a time on the hour until it was time to put them up for the night. This morning her color is almost completely back to normal, she is roaming the yard and almost back to her spunky self. I hope that if anyone else is dealing with something like this that this is the least bit helpful!
( PS:I chose to treat for the coccidiosis before worms as it is the more deadly of the two.)
 
TexiCaliBlues said:
Well, nobody chimed in, but I wanted to do a follow up/update in case anyone else came looking for info...over the last 10 days this poor little Rhode island red chicken has been through a lot. at first I thought I might be dealing with some kind of impaction but after a couple of days of massage she wasn't really changing condition wise I also was not noticing any kind of sour smell from her. She would eat some things mostly grapes or cucumbers but was not free ranging in the yard as much as normal was not vocalizing as much as she usually does and had no interest in her crumble. I also noticed that she didn't seem to be drinking water, but as I said she free ranges so she could have been getting her water source elsewhere. 2 days ago I woke up and went out to let the chickens in the yard and noticed that her comb and wattles were very pale almost completely White, she was a bit lethargic and no longer interested in taking any kind of treats but still moving around a bit. I've been looking over the last 10 days a lot of information on this site and determined that with the combination of her lethargy her decrease actually complete stop in laying when she is normally a daily later and the appearance of the occasional watery poo that I definitely needed to take action. I determined that from her symptoms I was either dealing with a worm infestation or coccidiosis. I have not notice any blood in her poop but upon my reading on this website I realized that only certain strains of the coccidiosis well actually produce blood in feces. I purchased the powdered corid 20 from TSC and began administering the max dose in all Waterers. I monitored her closely and did not see her drinking so I used a medicine plunger and gently hand fed her the medicated water small amounts at a time on the hour until it was time to put them up for the night. This morning her color is almost completely back to normal, she is roaming the yard and almost back to her spunky self. I hope that if anyone else is dealing with something like this that this is the least bit helpful!
( PS:I chose to treat for the coccidiosis before worms as it is the more deadly of the two.)
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Im glad shes doing better😀
 

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