Sudden illness, blood in bright green, slimy poop

[Emrosenagel]

Use your own judgement, but when you are doing everything you can to save her, you will try everything. Others may disagree. Do you have anything to tube feed her? I will hold a tuna can or small cup/scoop up to their beak, and dip the beak to try and get them to drink fluids and eat. Tube feeding is fairly easy. A 35 ml syringe from the feed store can be connected to a piece of aquarium air tubing from the pet aisle of Walmart, or oxygen tubing, and they sell tubing that can fit at TSC and most Lowes and HomeDepot stores by the foot. Amazon sells baby lamb tube feeders as well. Here is a vet video of tube feeding:

She actually does peck at the food once in a while, but it just doesn’t seem to be going through.

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is a feeding tube set from Amazon, and you can use baby bird feed, raw egg, or very finely ground chicken feed plus water.
https://www.amazon.com/Abustle-pig-...a5e-45d1-91ef-662a1eb2b1d3&pd_rd_i=B0CY4P2X3C

 

[Emrosenagel]

She just pooped out more green stuff along with this. It looks like some kind of tissue? She’s been pooping more stuff like this today.

 

[Eggcessive]

I wish I knew what was going on with her.

 

[Emrosenagel]

I wish I knew what was going on with her.

Me too. It just came on so quickly. Could it be necrotic enteritis?

 

[Emrosenagel]

Update on my hen. Today she is acting better, was awake most of the morning pecking at her food and even took a few sips of water. Poop is still green, but looks a bit more normal in texture. Only one instance of blood, and no tissue looking stuff. Crop is still very slow and squishy but I think it went down a little.

 

[Eggcessive]

Can you offer some very watery chicken feed and runny egg? She needs some easy to digest food. Do you have any chicken vitamins or human B complex tablets? 1/4 tablet daily can sometimes help the appetite. You can experiment with a little canned tuna, canned cat food or ground meat, but just let her eat a tiny bit, and then offer the watery feed. Enteritis is usually more common in very young chickens, and coccidiosis may happen just before that.

 

[Emrosenagel]

Another update, good and bad.
my mama hen has gotten almost 100% better, which means something was working. But now one of the chicks fell suddenly ill today with the exact same symptoms; very bloody poop, lethargic, no appetite. I’ve started her on the antibiotics and given her corid undiluted, since she isn’t drinking.
Whatever this is, I think most of my flock had it last week when I was finding blood and shedding in the poop. Now everyone else is back to normal except these two. Both my mama and this chick are feather footed and fluffy, and I live in Florida. I think the heat stress may have made them more vulnerable than my other chickens to whatever this is

 

[Eggcessive]

I hope the chick gets better, and glad that your hen is improving.

 

[Emrosenagel]

The chick died in my arms in less than 24 hours of showing symptoms. I guess she just wasn’t as tough as her mom, in the end. I’m guessing it’s some strain of cocci, since she was pooping nothing but blood, similar to what the mama was popping on her worst day.