Sick chicken?

Poliwag1

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I don’t have any photos at the moment but my chicken is sort of hunched over / shoulders fluffed up, fatigued (moving slowly and barely running), has a lot of dry ‘food’ and I believe regurgitated spit on her feathers under her beak and around her neck. I think it might be digestive related because she had a sunflower seed sitting in her beak last night which I removed. She is a (daughter?) of a Peking bantam born in September last year (around 4-5 months old). I can take a photo if necessary
 
When was her last egg? If she should have laid an egg and hasn't, then I'd get extra calcium into her for 5-7days. Give 300mg Calcium Citrate once daily.

In addition to the calcium. Check her crop to see if it's emptying overnight. If it's not, the address that symptom according to the article below. It sounds like she may have a crop issue, but this can sometimes be a symptom of something else.

Be sure to look inside the beak for any obstruction, canker or lesions.


https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/
 

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