Sick hen .... need help

[Jtaranc]

I posted about my friend giving me a hen who was getting picked on at her house. I knew the moment I saw her she was not well. She's very skinny with a droopy crop. I got her to eat strawberries the first day.

Day 3 she's barely eating, smells strong of ammonia and is all puffed up. Her comb is also turning purple now.

She did have watery diarrhea when she got here. Now she's just sitting in her poop. Also sounds like her tummy is rumbling.

Any ideas what I can do?

 

[Eggcessive]

Is her crop enlarged, firm, soft, or doughy? It looks possibly like a pendulous or sour crop. Can you check it now and again first thing in the morning before she eats or drinks? Does she lay eggs? How long ago did she lay? Do you have any pictures of her droppings? Does she get granite poultry grit in a separate container from feed? What are you feeding her?

 

[Jtaranc]

Is her crop enlarged, firm, soft, or doughy? It looks possibly like a pendulous or sour crop. Can you check it now and again first thing in the morning before she eats or drinks? Does she lay eggs? How long ago did she lay? Do you have any pictures of her droppings? Does she get granite poultry grit in a separate container from feed? What are you feeding her?

It's doughy. It's always doughy.

Like I said this is the 3rd day I've had her she's only eaten thinly sliced strawberries for me. She drank water yesterday and when she leaned over black stuff fell from her mouth into the water. My friend I got her from doesn't know age or last time she laid. She hasn't eaten today at all.

 

[Jtaranc]

She passed last night

 

[Eggcessive]

I’m sorry for your loss. If she had the crop problem for awhile she may have not been getting enough nutrition to survive. Impacted crop can be from getting clumps of grass caught into the crop, but more likely from a secondary problems in the body. In hens that can include reproductive infections, egg yolk peritonitis, worms, or not having access to granite poultry grit when eating foods, grass, and grains or seeds besides chicken layer or flock raiser feed. Treating crop problems can be hard, but this article is very good if it happens again:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

 

[Jtaranc]

I’m sorry for your loss. If she had the crop problem for awhile she may have not been getting enough nutrition to survive. Impacted crop can be from getting clumps of grass caught into the crop, but more likely from a secondary problems in the body. In hens that can include reproductive infections, egg yolk peritonitis, worms, or not having access to granite poultry grit when eating foods, grass, and grains or seeds besides chicken layer or flock raiser feed. Treating crop problems can be hard, but this article is very good if it happens again:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

Yea like I said she was given to me cause she was getting beat up. The minute I saw her I knew she wasn't well. My guess is her flock could see it too.

I've treated one of my barred rocks for sour crop but she always eats for me. This girl had no appetite at all. It's hard when you don't know their history.

 

[Eggcessive]

I have lost a few to crop impaction or sour crop that never responded to the usual treatments, and in their last day, the others would peck at them. I usually separated them at that point or put them down.