Sick Chicken w Pics, I've no idea what's wrong

[Saaniya]

Feels like your bird having Fowl Pox & A Bacterial Infection ..
as per the loose Poop and its neon green ..

Fowl pox has no medication but u can apply some ointment on the comb
For bacterial infection
Biotrim is best by far but first confirm it that ur bird is having a infection

 

[rebrascora]

I would agree with Wyorp rock as regards the black spots on the comb. It doesn't look to me like fowl pox, just pin pricks of blood. If you rub her comb with wet fingers, do the black spots dissolve up like blood?
Personally, I would not be overly concerned about her comb looking like that.

 

[OG Anomaly]

How dirty is she?

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I got her cleaned up a little more & she wasn't quite as dirty as it looked at first.

 

[casportpony]

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I got her cleaned up a little more & she wasn't quite as dirty as it looked at first.

 

[casportpony]

How does she look today?

 

[casportpony]

What I should have said is how is she acting today?

 

[OG Anomaly]

Wow! A 5lb leghorn with a 2-3 body score!!! You must be doing something right!
I certainly got the diagnosis wrong then! Clearly not a crop problem. It's always really difficult to assess what is going on with a bird from a description and photo.

Many people find that their chicken picks up after a warm soak, but as with most things, there are slight risks as well as potential benefits. I do not have a bathroom that would generate the warmth and steam required so that would not be an option for me. I do not think it is a good idea to bathe a very sick, frail bird, but your bird doesn't seem to be in that category at the moment. If you can generate a steam room then certainly, go with that.

I too would probably be leaning towards a shell less egg causing the problem now. They are very difficult for the bird to expel and make them very weary from the constant straining, especially if she has had a run of them.
As birds get towards the end of their egg laying cycle, it is not uncommon for them to become weak shelled or shell less. As has been suggested a direct dose of calcium should help.

I completely understand what you're saying about trying to guess what's wrong with someone else's animal from pics and descriptions, lol. I think you all do a great job and really appreciate the time and effort everyone takes to help figure it out.

I think she has a combination of problems. I do think she had a sour/stopped up crop, as well as a soft egg stuck. Right after I was checking her crop & massaged it that little bit, she defecated almost immediately after, with that gooey/albumen looking poop & her crop shrunk down, hardened up a bit and she started perking right up.

Because she was doing so well and was getting really anxious about being in the house/cage, and I didn't want to keep trying other things because she was doing so much better & didn't want to stress her out more, if I didn't need to, I decided to put her outside for the night. I also didn't want her getting too acclimated to the house warmth and knew I could check her easily in the morning. I also thought that, if it was something contagious, the others probably would've been showing signs of being ill by then, and they hadn't, so I went with it.
I'm happy to report she is doing fine now.

I do need to address this soft egg problem and find out why this keeps happening. I will be getting some calcium in a little bit & will give her a dose of that, but she does have plenty of access to oyster shells (and has since the beginning) & her pellets have calcium/oyster shells in them as well, and I haven't seen any of the others have this problem.
When it first started happening I found an article about the different things that can happen to eggs (soft shelled, lumpy, double yolks, etc) and it didn't sound like it was a big problem, unless they got stuck or something. They had all just started laying for the first time and thought it might even be related to their bodies getting used to this new process & I figured I just keep an eye on them and see how it went.
Now, it's been a few months, they're all into their regular laying habits (I assume, lol, they're 9 months old now) it's still happening and now, apparently, causing problems.

I was wondering if it was stressful for the bird to get a soft egg out, so thank you for that info too.
I was also wondering if this could this be some kind of genetic/birth defect type of problem? Like this particular chicken, for whatever reason, has a problem processing calcium & that causes a deficiency?
I dunno but I gotta figure it out.

 

[OG Anomaly]

I would agree with Wyorp rock as regards the black spots on the comb. It doesn't look to me like fowl pox, just pin pricks of blood. If you rub her comb with wet fingers, do the black spots dissolve up like blood?
Personally, I would not be overly concerned about her comb looking like that.

They are like little scabs, if you pick them off, it will bleed underneath...does fowl pox not bleed under the spots?
Sometimes they will come out of the coop with blood on their heads or comb area or little drops on their backs or tail area, but I've only found an actual open wound twice. So, I figured it was just them bickering & pecking each other over who gets to sleep where.
I'm happy to hear everyone seems to agree it's not concerning!

 

[OG Anomaly]

Do you have any tums? Tums are basically calcium carbonate, so you could use that instead, though it would be better if you could get some human calcium citrate or calcium gluconate for cattle.

I just wanted to tell you this is a great idea! Thank you!
I was going to say it the other day & just forgot.

 

[OG Anomaly]

I would add some Epsom salts to the bath water.
Glad to hear everything is heading in the right direction!

Thank you!