Crazychocolatedog
Songster
ugh....please help me.
I have 5 chickens. I am very new at keeping chickens ....they are 30 weeks old.
One chicken, Dixie, a gold colored chicken that I believe is a micxed breed,...was always a big fat happy girl. Her crop was always big and full...all the time. Soft and mushy, less volume in the AM, but I’d say , it still had food inside.
I thought maybe it was sour. ...? I massaged it a lot , and it seems to go down a lot. I tried to make her vomit..nothing came up. But I kept massaging her crop and I thought things were going well.
The last few days I have notice that her vent was dirty. I washed her gently today, but it was dirty again soon after. When I picked her up...she was all bones. I also noticed her poo was runny and green. I think she is dying. She eats, she drinks...but she is walking one slow step at a time. I hadnt picked her up, or seen her walking so slow, over the past few days because it has been raining forever here, and they have been in their run a lot....and I was letting them out for short periods between downpours...not staying out and watching them for an hour or so like I usually do daily.
I live in the city....we don’t have any farm vets around here. I’ve read a lot of forums and question and answers here and it “sounds” to my novice ears, like Enteritis.
I read to give her an injection. Of biomycin or gentamicin. These are prescription drug where I live, and I wouldn’t be able to get it. ...and I’m not comfortable about doing this, even if I could because I don’t know if this is the issue at hand.
Any idea other than what I think this is, or what I can do? She’s a sweet bird, but I’m afraid I realized too late that she was so sick, so very thin .
Please advise, and I apologize for being stupid.
I have 5 chickens. I am very new at keeping chickens ....they are 30 weeks old.
One chicken, Dixie, a gold colored chicken that I believe is a micxed breed,...was always a big fat happy girl. Her crop was always big and full...all the time. Soft and mushy, less volume in the AM, but I’d say , it still had food inside.
I thought maybe it was sour. ...? I massaged it a lot , and it seems to go down a lot. I tried to make her vomit..nothing came up. But I kept massaging her crop and I thought things were going well.
The last few days I have notice that her vent was dirty. I washed her gently today, but it was dirty again soon after. When I picked her up...she was all bones. I also noticed her poo was runny and green. I think she is dying. She eats, she drinks...but she is walking one slow step at a time. I hadnt picked her up, or seen her walking so slow, over the past few days because it has been raining forever here, and they have been in their run a lot....and I was letting them out for short periods between downpours...not staying out and watching them for an hour or so like I usually do daily.
I live in the city....we don’t have any farm vets around here. I’ve read a lot of forums and question and answers here and it “sounds” to my novice ears, like Enteritis.
I read to give her an injection. Of biomycin or gentamicin. These are prescription drug where I live, and I wouldn’t be able to get it. ...and I’m not comfortable about doing this, even if I could because I don’t know if this is the issue at hand.
Any idea other than what I think this is, or what I can do? She’s a sweet bird, but I’m afraid I realized too late that she was so sick, so very thin .
Please advise, and I apologize for being stupid.