What's wrong with Wasabi?

[micstrachan]

If no real poop is coming out, she may be backed up. You could try feeding her some little chunks of hardened coconut oil to help lubricate her digestive tract.

 

[cottagecheese]

The thing actually damaging their kidneys is the enormous amount of calcium in layer, which is four times what they should have. Did you stop the layer after reading ? In my opinion, her system is absolutely saturated with calcium, if she's having trouble laying it's not because of lack of calcium. In my opinion calcium is poison to her right now, she got truckloads of it for the last few months.

 

[ArianDolympia]

OH NO!!!I am giving her starter feed right now because that's all I have for the younger group of chickens we've just gotten 10 days ago.

 

[ArianDolympia]

She did drop some poops this morning. There was a small one looks like pink jelly .

 

[ArianDolympia]

She had some chunky Coconut oil yesterday.

 

[ArianDolympia]

Maybe that's why she threw up some grass in the evening.

 

[cottagecheese]

Sorry, didn't mean to go away, I had something to do.

From here:
https://thisnzlife.co.nz/poultry-ex...-amount-of-calcium-and-grit-to-lay-good-eggs/

Quoting below what's relevant:

'A diet containing too much calcium can be a serious problem for young chicks and growing birds under 18 weeks of age. The recommended level for calcium is 1% or below for these birds; layer feed has up to four times this amount, so you should never feed it to birds under 18 weeks.

The excess calcium has to be excreted by the kidneys in the form of uric acid. It is easily converted into crystals which then block the tubules of the kidneys. This can lead to death, often several months later when the stress and metabolic demands of laying eggs starts, or if they contract a disease such as infectious Bronchitis (which also can affect the kidneys).

Too much calcium can tie up phosphorous, making it unavailable. It can also cause rickets (soft/rubbery bones), the same as if they were getting too little calcium.

A diet which includes 2.5% or more calcium fed to young birds can cause visceral gout, nephrosis and calcium urate deposits in the ureters leading from the kidneys, and sometimes high mortality.

Feeding a mixed diet to chicks which includes layer feed plus other scraps mixed in may reduce the serious incidence of kidney damage from the extra calcium, but it may still cause long-term insidious damage. The layer feed would have to be less than a quarter of the chick’s daily intake of food, and then you would have to aware of the calcium levels of other foods you might add like yoghurt, milk, whey or even dog roll, as these can have a reasonably high calcium level.

Chicks and growing birds have a relatively small appetite so even feeding them 50% layer feed and 50% scraps or wheat or greens means they would still be getting twice as much calcium as they need.

If you change from Chick Starter or Grower feed over to layer feed too early (before 18 weeks), young birds will also consume more water than they need, resulting in wet droppings and scouring. This will tend to carry on through the laying cycle as well, a condition many put down to worms. A bird with persistently white faecal-stained feathers below her vent during lay may just be showing signs of being fed layer feed too early in life.'

So now, as the lady says above, Wasabi is not feeling well because of the stress and new metabolic demands as she has arrived at laying age.

Big sigh, but what can we do now except support her kidney function? Too much protein is bad for weakened kidneys and starter feed has a little too much protein for adults. What percentage protein in your starter? Perhaps you should cut it down a bit.

New in the last posts PINK JELLY. Potentially more trouble. Did you take a picture?

 

[cottagecheese]

Ugh, no, it's possible that the uric acid has caused mechanical damage to her intestines.

 

[ArianDolympia]

 

[ArianDolympia]

Here is her poop thus morning. Notice the pink one up left.