1) What type of bird , age and weight.
White Faced Black Spanish hen, 5 months old.
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
She moves her head around in peculiar ways, sometimes like she's trying to swallow something large, other times like she's trying to shake off something around her head.
Also, her breast feels very fluid-filled and squishy.
Her beak is covered in something that looks like wet crumble. She's sneezing.
3) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
No.
4) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
I don't know.
5) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
Eating lay crumble and whatever she finds free-ranging. Drinks water from puddles. She won't stay in the chicken yard and drink and eat with them.
6) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
Don't know.
7) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
None.
10) Describe the housing/bedding in use
She roosts in trees: orange tree, pencil tree, and ash tree.
As I mentioned, her breast is swollen and feels like it's fluid-filled. I can squish it around.
She had been laying eggs, really large ones, for a few weeks. She's a white egg-layer. Now we find eggs of that same size, but they're brown, so we assumed another hen started laying, and that a snake was eating her eggs. It is possible though that she has stopped laying, since it's been 4 days of not getting her eggs. Could she start laying brown eggs???
When my DS holds her now, she doesn't seem as relaxed as she used to. She acts like I would if I were trying to swallow an orange whole.
We just pulled her out of the tree and she has stuff all over her nose and beak that looks like wet crumble. She's sneezing. When I turn her upside-down, wet lay crumble comes out. Nothing smells bad at all. The last time I turned her upside-down and the stuff came out onto a towel, I looked closely and saw crumble, one grass blade, and crumble-colored water.
DH mowed last Thursday. I was thinking eating lots of grass could be the cause, but when I squish around her crop, I feel nothing solid. It's like holding a baseball, but filled with water.
White Faced Black Spanish hen, 5 months old.
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
She moves her head around in peculiar ways, sometimes like she's trying to swallow something large, other times like she's trying to shake off something around her head.
Also, her breast feels very fluid-filled and squishy.
Her beak is covered in something that looks like wet crumble. She's sneezing.
3) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
No.
4) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
I don't know.
5) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
Eating lay crumble and whatever she finds free-ranging. Drinks water from puddles. She won't stay in the chicken yard and drink and eat with them.
6) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
Don't know.
7) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
None.
10) Describe the housing/bedding in use
She roosts in trees: orange tree, pencil tree, and ash tree.
As I mentioned, her breast is swollen and feels like it's fluid-filled. I can squish it around.
She had been laying eggs, really large ones, for a few weeks. She's a white egg-layer. Now we find eggs of that same size, but they're brown, so we assumed another hen started laying, and that a snake was eating her eggs. It is possible though that she has stopped laying, since it's been 4 days of not getting her eggs. Could she start laying brown eggs???
When my DS holds her now, she doesn't seem as relaxed as she used to. She acts like I would if I were trying to swallow an orange whole.
We just pulled her out of the tree and she has stuff all over her nose and beak that looks like wet crumble. She's sneezing. When I turn her upside-down, wet lay crumble comes out. Nothing smells bad at all. The last time I turned her upside-down and the stuff came out onto a towel, I looked closely and saw crumble, one grass blade, and crumble-colored water.
DH mowed last Thursday. I was thinking eating lots of grass could be the cause, but when I squish around her crop, I feel nothing solid. It's like holding a baseball, but filled with water.
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