LittleBird123
Songster
Yesterday morning when I went out to my chicken's coop I found one of them laying on the floor. I picked her up and she was breathing with her mouth slightly open and her crop was very large and squishy, it felt like it was filled with fluid or gas. I thought she might have sour crop and I had read before that you need to get them to vomit to clear their crop so I tried to get her to vomit by holding her upside down and massaging her crop. She vomited some grass and clear fluid that had the consistency of saliva. Her crop was still pretty full after that. she was puffed up and still was breathing with her mouth slightly open. After about ten minutes she got worse and would no longer stand. Then five minutes later she started shaking her head, then her body went rigid, she started flapping her wings and appeared to have a seizure and died. Clear fluid came out of her mouth after she died. She was completely fine the day before running around with the other chickens, and she seemed fine sitting on the roost that night when I put them to bed. She was six years old and has had very runny poop that would get stuck to the feathers beneath her vent for a long time, but other than that she has not had many health issues. I do not know what happened and I am very worried that whatever happened to her could spread to my other chickens. They all seem to be acting normal now but I am worried because of how quickly this happened to her. If anyone knows what happened to her and if it could spread to my other chickens please respond, any information would be helpful.
