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

[OG Anomaly]

Thank you so much for the help!
We felt 3 other crops and compared to those, hers is more swollen and is definitely softer/squishier.
I massaged her for a bit, while son was grabbing the other girls, and after comparison & putting her back in cage, she is standing up and eating crackers.
She does occasionally shake her head back & forth/side to side, then ends by contracting her neck in towards her body. I think that's what I thought was a shudder at first.
She's plenty warm and I did make a batch of electrolytes for her.
She didn't seem to mind the crop massage at all.
As for the breast bone...I don't know, maybe Leghorns are different, but I know our other birds are healthy, and all their breastbones seem sharp and defined to me and have always been like that, so I can't give any helpful info there. Other people have asked me about this in the past and I just don't know what to tell them.

Do I need to keep massaging her crop?
I'll look into this to see how if happens, but is there anything I can do/change immediately to stop this from happening again?

Now she is back down in a squat, and is moving around by using her...knees? elbows? She's scooting around on those and won't stand up.

What number is she?

What number is she?

Oh this great! She's definetely a 3 or 4

 

[casportpony]

Oh this great! She's definetely a 3 or 4

Well, that's a good sign!

 

[OG Anomaly]

I'll work on getting the crop pics. She also pooped again and it's even worse than the last one. It's not even green.

 

[casportpony]

I'll work on getting the crop pics. She also pooped again and it's even worse than the last one. It's not even green.

What does it look like now?

 

[casportpony]

Has she ever been de-wormed?

 

[chickens really]

Hmmm?...Saving a Chicken does not workout in most cases so be prepared to put the Bird through multiple things and to have it pass anyways...I Cull all sick Birds so they don't suffer...Its Humans that think they can save them...

 

[Pyxis]

I agree with what's been said about possibly an impacted crop or maybe worms. Tonight leave her without food in the pen and see if her crop has gone down in the morning and is empty. If it's empty, her crop is not impacted and food is moving through normally.

If that turns out to be the case, then it may be something like a high worm load, or a bacterial infection that can be treated with antibiotics.

And don't give up - I had a really sick juvenile peacock just recently. He was gasping for breath and not eating. A round of antibiotics later and he's good as new - poor thing had gotten pneumonia. It took only a week for him to get better, and now he has 20 years of life ahead of him. If I had killed him as soon as I noticed he was sick he wouldn't have gotten those years of life.

I could tell he was still willing to fight, so I was too. Had he not gotten better, I would have culled him, but I gave him the chance first and I'm very glad I did. I'm sure he is too.

 

[OG Anomaly]

Ok, I don't know if these pics will help at all, but I did see another thread started today and their bird's crop is huge, ours is not like that.
She has not been dewormed. TBH, I didn't know I had to watch out for those in chickens, but it makes sense.
I don't mind putting time in to try and help the bird, but if it's apparent that I'm just prolonging her agony, I will do what I gotta do.
I did take a pic of her butt, but all you can see is that she's dirty from the loose stool. I did feel her belly though, and all over her body, and I don't notice anything that seems really out of sorts...except that her crop is a little softer than the other birds, and a tiny bit bigger.
I had my son hold her on her back and this is the best I could get. All the others were out of focus because she kept squirming around.
With and without flash, her butt is normal size
Newest poop

I understand it's difficult to diagnose someone else's animal from bad pics and descriptions, haha, I'm just trying to get an idea of where to even start.

 

[OG Anomaly]

I agree with what's been said about possibly an impacted crop or maybe worms. Tonight leave her without food in the pen and see if her crop has gone down in the morning and is empty. If it's empty, her crop is not impacted and food is moving through normally.

If that turns out to be the case, then it may be something like a high worm load, or a bacterial infection that can be treated with antibiotics.

And don't give up - I had a really sick juvenile peacock just recently. He was gasping for breath and not eating. A round of antibiotics later and he's good as new - poor thing had gotten pneumonia. It took only a week for him to get better, and now he has 20 years of life ahead of him. If I had killed him as soon as I noticed he was sick he wouldn't have gotten those years of life.

I could tell he was still willing to fight, so I was too. Had he not gotten better, I would have culled him, but I gave him the chance first and I'm very glad I did. I'm sure he is too.

Thank you & congrats on saving your peacock!

 

[casportpony]

Newest poop

I understand it's difficult to diagnose someone else's animal from bad pics and descriptions, haha, I'm just trying to get an idea of where to even start.

That poop says a lot to me. I can tell you what I would do if you would like to hear that.