sick chicken with swollen abdomen. need help!

[Wyorp Rock]

she seems to be in a stable condition but I don't know how long this will last. her legs still useless and she still cant talk. the 2nd large picture looks like what my chicken had only my chick had yellow cheese balls in between. i am pretty sure that the yellow balls were lash eggs. what was the picture of anyways?

also do you know how much a examination would cost?

I'm sorry that she's not getting any better.
Are you able to get any fluids into her?
What state do you live in, I can look up your state lab for you.

The 2nd large photo in which link are you referring to?

 

[proudchickenmom]

I have been able to get her to eat and drink more frequently, and I am starting to think that she might have just had some sort of digestive infection that is in her only. I think the other chicken dying might have just been a coincidence. she seems to be getting better now ! it is probably just a passing infection. she only has one problem now... she cant seem to walk right☹, but it looks like she will be able to get over it soon. yay!!!

 

[proudchickenmom]

i guess it was not just an passing infection - she died this morning. I really thought I could save her and she would get better... so very very sad...

 

[coach723]

I'm very sorry for your loss.
After reading through your thread I think that everything that @Wyorp Rock said before is what I also would have said. Once a bird develops ascites (fluid in the abdomen), regardless of the underlying cause, the prognosis is usually poor. Unfortunately reproductive cancers are not uncommon, and based purely on your description, that would be my guess. Infection can also occur separately, or in addition to the cancer. The waxy things you said were lash eggs could very well have been infection. Even if it was only infection with no underlying cancer or other condition, reproductive infections are notoriously hard to treat and often do not respond to antibiotics unless caught very early, and sadly most are not since the birds hide it so very well. Most of the time it's fairly advanced before symptoms become obvious. I think you did everything you could have for her, and I'm very, very sorry.

 

[ASteelman]

I recently lost a hen in a similar way. Very swollen abdomen, yellowish diarrhea, not talking, lethargic. I believe she had egg yolk peritonitis after the reading I did online. It's not something hens usually recover from without draining of the fluid and antibiotics, or even surgery to remove the internal egg mass and/or the ovary

All my chickens were coming back into lay for the spring, and she always tended to lay large eggs. I did not do a postmortem but she had pieces of eggshell hanging from her vent when I first pulled her from the coop and did an exam. She made it many more days after that. We isolated her in a warm room, kept her behind clean and hoped for the best, but she never recovered. My city does have avian veterinarians, but they only treat exotic pets like parrots.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

i guess it was not just an passing infection - she died this morning. I really thought I could save her and she would get better... so very very sad...

I'm very sorry.

 

[proudchickenmom]

thanks everyone for all the advice yall have given me. I really appreciate it... and I am sure that she appreciated it too