swollen abdomen and limp comb...help!

[PD-Riverman]

You could try soaking her for a while in a warm..not hot or cold..epsom salt bath.

Sorry but that want do any good now.

 

[Kiki]

Probably not but it may make them (op) feel better...like they at least tried everything.

 

[PD-Riverman]

i checked her for being egg bound , but didn't feel anything. and yes, she's waddling like a penguin. should i isolate her from the other chickens?

She is probably ok with them----if this is what I described--the egg bound is different than your normal egg bound----she is probably producing shell-less eggs and they are just building up inside her---which is what is making her heavier and hard. Let me find a pic-----not a pretty site though.

 

[casportpony]

She is probably ok with them----if this is what I described--the egg bound is different than your normal egg bound----she is probably producing shell-less eggs and they are just building up inside her---which is what is making her heavier and hard. Let me find a pic-----not a pretty site though.

That looks like a really bad repro-tract infection (salpingitis).

 

[casportpony]

It's been about 2 weeks since my RIR has roosted with the other chickens. She sleeps in the nesting box. Her abdomen is very very hard and bloated. I checked her for being egg bound and she isn't.
She's not moving around much and had a very messy bottom. Her comb is now limp and drooping badly to the side.
Does anyone know of anything I can do!! I'm desperate.

Does her belly feel hard, or does it feel like it full of fluid?

 

[johnbreit]

Does her belly feel hard, or does it feel like it full of fluid?

feels hard

 

[PD-Riverman]

That looks like a really bad repro-tract infection (salpingitis).

You know me good enough to know I am no doctor---the way this OP described the symptons---sound the same as this chicken. Might not be---But this chicken could have been soaked until the feathers came off----it would have never dumped this.

 

[casportpony]

feels hard

Gently place your finger in her vent and see if you can feel a mass.

 

[casportpony]

You know me good enough to know I am no doctor---the way this OP described the symptons---sound the same as this chicken. Might not be---But this chicken could have been soaked until the feathers came off----it would have never dumped this.

Nope.

 

[casportpony]

This hen also had a mass:

Spoiler: Necropsy Picture

This was a 500 gram mass that I found in a hen's uterus