Can you post some photos?
NEW EMERGENCY
I have posted here before about my BO hen who started out with what I believed to be sour crop.
She's about 2.5 yrs old, was isolating herself from flock, wasn't eating, I moved her into a crate in the garage with heat source. Started with TwoCrows crop buster drench along with worming with Safeguard paste wormer. I also resorted to vomiting her every morning for about 4 days until all putrid contents were out of her crop. Went on to treat with miconazole along with human probiotics. She refused to eat for a while until she passed a huge rope of grass about 7 inches long and almost a half inch in diameter. After that her poop was nothing but water with little bits of grass in it. Stunk like sewer swamp. Then poop became nothing but water, cloudy white water. Increased probiotics to whole contents of capsule mixed with applesauce and force fed with syringe. Also increased miconazole to 1cc 2x a day for about 5 days. She was eating nothing but crickets, mealworms and worms, with a tiny bit of cracker and finely chopped clover. She got out of her confinement and gorged on some grass before my hubby could catch her. She wouldn't eat much for 3 days following that. Then on the fourth day, she finally pooped out the grass. Between the time that she ate the grass and when she pooped it out, she only pooped clear fluid. After the grass came out. Her poop then turned mustard yellow and watery. That lasted for about 4 days.During this time she continued to eat small amounts of crickets, worms, crackers, rolled oats, scratch, and chicken feed. But only VERY small amounts. Her poop finally became more solid, still dark green and still smells like swamp. I have now noticed that she is also passing whole rolled oats and chips of grit. It doesn't appear as though her gizzard is grinding anything up.
Right now It's been since 11/01 since shes been ill. She's still in the crate in the garage, with a heat source for warmth. She is bedded on puppy pads to absorb all of the fluid from her poop. She drinks well, and now her diet consists of crickets, worms, rolled oats, finely minced broccoli pepper brusselsprouts, crumbled dried mealworms, crumbled layer feed, grit, oyster shell, and maybe a few bits of scratch. I give her what ever she will eat. Sometimes she turns her nose up at one to two things that she ate the day before, but she goes crazy for the vegies. Oh, and I also give her probiotics and chicken vitamins in her water.
Any idea of what may be the matter with her? I thought sour crop, then it looked like a blockage. I believed that the blockage had passed, but it doesn't seem like everything is like it should be in her digestive tract. I'm going to try to attach some pics.
beginning poop
grass blockage?
cloudy white poop
First day of new formed poop on top of night before's liquidy yellow poop.
From that day until now, this is what her poop looks like, Dark, grassy, and stinky. She will pass formed poop and then the next will be diarrhea of the same color. All with bits of what she ate, undigested.
Any thoughts as to the cause of this? Or if the prognosis might be good for a full recovery? It's been 5 weeks of struggle for the both of us.
Thanks
Oh, and I also gave her penicillin injections for 3 days after she had passed the rope of grass and before the cloudy white liquid diarrhea. I thought that she might have had a clostridia infection. Nothing changed with the treatment, so I discontinued it.
I'm glad you found a vet, it can be really difficult to find a vet to look at chickens. Sorry I don't have any advise on what to ask for at the vet :/. I've only had to a chicken to a vet once. Good luck and I hope your hen feels better
I'm sorry you are having trouble.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
