- Jul 18, 2012
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I have a 11.5 week old Delaware pullet. Our chickens are free range, on grass and other weeds. I give fresh water night and morning. they also have access to Dumor chicken crumbles. it has been between 45f at night and 75f during the days. no rain, no wind, no hot, sweltering sun.
Two nights ago, she was unintentionally left out of the coop. We found her out in the yard in the next morning. She was generally fine, no outward signs of injury, but as the day progressed we noticed that she was walking very slowly and had her feathers puffed out. I sat and watched her for a bit...while watching her, i noticed her poop was clear. When i had picked her up earlier, she felt very skinny and her crop was huge! i massaged it a bit. it did not seem hard. it was pliable and the food in there moved around freely. last night she seemed a bit better and she got into the coop by herself. This morning she was in one of the nesting boxes on the floor of the coop. when the other girls went out, she stayed in. we brought her in at that point and put her in a pet crate fed her food mash, put food and water in front of her. There has been relatively little change in her condition. she does not move around the crate. she eats unenthusiastically. She does appear to be dehydrated - her skin is not elastic and the skin on the bottom of her feet does not feel soft or pliable.
now that she is inside on paper, i can see her poop better it is definitely very liquid, it has very little bits of solid brown in it, no signs of worms. it looks sort of like this (http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff221/Aunt__Sally/Poo/Watery.jpg).
any thoughts, insights would be appreciated!
-Jill
Two nights ago, she was unintentionally left out of the coop. We found her out in the yard in the next morning. She was generally fine, no outward signs of injury, but as the day progressed we noticed that she was walking very slowly and had her feathers puffed out. I sat and watched her for a bit...while watching her, i noticed her poop was clear. When i had picked her up earlier, she felt very skinny and her crop was huge! i massaged it a bit. it did not seem hard. it was pliable and the food in there moved around freely. last night she seemed a bit better and she got into the coop by herself. This morning she was in one of the nesting boxes on the floor of the coop. when the other girls went out, she stayed in. we brought her in at that point and put her in a pet crate fed her food mash, put food and water in front of her. There has been relatively little change in her condition. she does not move around the crate. she eats unenthusiastically. She does appear to be dehydrated - her skin is not elastic and the skin on the bottom of her feet does not feel soft or pliable.
now that she is inside on paper, i can see her poop better it is definitely very liquid, it has very little bits of solid brown in it, no signs of worms. it looks sort of like this (http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff221/Aunt__Sally/Poo/Watery.jpg).
any thoughts, insights would be appreciated!
-Jill
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