- Apr 2, 2012
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Hello, I'm new to the site. It is too late to save my poor Dominique hen, Helen, but I wondered if anyone else had run across this and could tell me what had happened. She would have been 2 in June, so she was young and healthy. I let the flock out at 4:00 pm and she was fine. By which, I mean, she ran out with the others--I didn't do a full physical on each chicken, but she seemed fine. Two hours later, she was hunched over, having uncontrollable diarrhea. When I picked her up, she vomited, and I found her crop was swollen. I massaged it and made her empty it. There were two smaller, stinging bugs in it--not wasps, but similar. Her comb and wattles were a very deep, unhealthy-looking purplish/brick-red. Her pupils were pulsating non-stop, and at first she was breathing open-mouthed. I poured some water over her head, and her wattles regained a better color--not great, but better, and she was still breathing heavily, but close-mouthed. I gave her a few eyedroppers full of red wine and olive oil, in case it was a crop issue, and then later we added some activated charcoal in case of some kind of poison. However, she just sat there the rest of the evening, and died sometime that night. Any ideas, as I don't want this to happen to any others in my flock!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you for the kind words and the advice. I already keep an emergency bottle of red wine for the chickens, now I'll have to add the liquid benedryl!
