Runny yellow clear discharge from cloaca

[moonnippie]

Hello, I'm doing a one dose now and one in 10 days. Both drugs we did 10mg/kg.

I'm beginning to wonder if in the insane Jan thaw and flooding she found some bad scratch in the paddock they free range in and has Clostridium.
Thoughts? The green grainy poops are remaining as is but the eggwhite like discharge is gone and has been for 2 days.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Hello, I'm doing a one dose now and one in 10 days. Both drugs we did 10mg/kg.

I'm beginning to wonder if in the insane Jan thaw and flooding she found some bad scratch in the paddock they free range in and has Clostridium.
Thoughts? The green grainy poops are remaining as is but the eggwhite like discharge is gone and has been for 2 days.

Can you get a gram stain on a sample of that poop?

 

[moonnippie]

I'm not sure he would have the stains. He's a small practice, one dr one tech. He sends a lot of not most of his lab samples off to be tested.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

O.K. Let's give @casportpony a yell! Kathy, can you take a look at the poop for us.

I agree with you, the poop is not right and it could very well be Clostridium. But it's really hard to know without testing.

 

[moonnippie]

Here's a fresh one. She's happily eating mashed hard boiled egg with plain kefir added to it currently.

 

[moonnippie]

Please help @casportpony ! I'm at a loss as of what to do next. I don't want to add metronidazole tablets to her care plan until I have your opinion.

 

[moonnippie]

So she had some normal BM's yesterday and the night before so I opted to move her back out to the coop with the other 3. She immediately reestablished the pecking order and seemed quite happy. Her bum is fluffy, she's scratching and hanging with her ladies but I did notice more watery green poop when I went out to change their vitamin water this am. She then had what looked like a normal small cecal poop. Not sure what to think/do? I've not treated with any antibiotics up to this point

 

[oregonkat]

So she had some normal BM's yesterday and the night before so I opted to move her back out to the coop with the other 3. She immediately reestablished the pecking order and seemed quite happy. Her bum is fluffy, she's scratching and hanging with her ladies but I did notice more watery green poop when I went out to change their vitamin water this am. She then had what looked like a normal small cecal poop. Not sure what to think/do? I've not treated with any antibiotics up to this point

Interested in how your hen is doing at this point? I have a friend with a hen that is suffering the same kinds of things.