What are we looking for/at?
Yellow runny poop... ?
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FYI, page 13 of this pdf has blood and chemistry values for poultry:
http://avianmedicine.net/content/uploads/2013/03/ind.pdf
-Kathy
http://avianmedicine.net/content/uploads/2013/03/ind.pdf
-Kathy
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Exactly, where are the pellets.
Thanks.
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Or maybe crop and intestine. When I do a rectal on a chicken I can usually feel the gizzard about 2" in on the left, which looks like where the second set of pellets are.
-Kathy
-Kathy
Sorry for the delay. We have a full plate here at the moment. Below are some clearer closeups. I circled the pellets, one in the crop, and 5 I could see in the abdominal area? Try to refer to the first photo if I've cropped these too close.
There is good news and bad news.
Good news: Her blood volume numbers keep rising from 10%, then 14% to now 19% (around 35% is ideal). We visited her Thursday and her comb and wattle were another shade pinker, and she was behaving even perkier. Her feet warmed up in my hands faster. A new xray shows one less pellet in the abdomen.
The bad news: She pooped for us Thursday, the color of anti-freeze--a vivid yellow-green liquid with tiny sliver of tightly packed, dark green solid. By afternoon her Friday her weight was down (from 4.3 lbs) to 3.9 lbs (3 lbs, 14oz.) with 5 lbs as her normal weight. The injections that were supposed to help the crop move weren't working well enough. Though they found no bacteria or yeast in the crop, she wasn't eating and they needed to move the contents through, or out.
I approved a flush-and-suck procedure of the crop but they weren't able to retrieve an amount the size slightly smaller than a ping pong ball, which I guess is still home to that one pellet. Other manual procedures which were first recommended were later dismissed by the avian specialist (now returned from an illness) for being too risky (maybe fear of aspiration-don't know).
They are going to only tube feed her throughout the weekend with a special enriched fluid (it sounded like "laculose"). They want the crop to empty so they can see what is new, what is old contents. It should also help her get some nutrition and hopefully flush out the remaining pellets.
The blood test results to determine lead or zinc poisoning have STILL not returned! Nonetheless, they have been treating her with a chelating agent to treat toxicity from metal.
They weighed her Friday night, after our phone call, for a baseline and will weigh her again and again as they feed her and take another xray which they wont charge me for. If the crop still doesn't move, I'd have to consider surgery.
There is good news and bad news.
Good news: Her blood volume numbers keep rising from 10%, then 14% to now 19% (around 35% is ideal). We visited her Thursday and her comb and wattle were another shade pinker, and she was behaving even perkier. Her feet warmed up in my hands faster. A new xray shows one less pellet in the abdomen.
The bad news: She pooped for us Thursday, the color of anti-freeze--a vivid yellow-green liquid with tiny sliver of tightly packed, dark green solid. By afternoon her Friday her weight was down (from 4.3 lbs) to 3.9 lbs (3 lbs, 14oz.) with 5 lbs as her normal weight. The injections that were supposed to help the crop move weren't working well enough. Though they found no bacteria or yeast in the crop, she wasn't eating and they needed to move the contents through, or out.
I approved a flush-and-suck procedure of the crop but they weren't able to retrieve an amount the size slightly smaller than a ping pong ball, which I guess is still home to that one pellet. Other manual procedures which were first recommended were later dismissed by the avian specialist (now returned from an illness) for being too risky (maybe fear of aspiration-don't know).
They are going to only tube feed her throughout the weekend with a special enriched fluid (it sounded like "laculose"). They want the crop to empty so they can see what is new, what is old contents. It should also help her get some nutrition and hopefully flush out the remaining pellets.
The blood test results to determine lead or zinc poisoning have STILL not returned! Nonetheless, they have been treating her with a chelating agent to treat toxicity from metal.
They weighed her Friday night, after our phone call, for a baseline and will weigh her again and again as they feed her and take another xray which they wont charge me for. If the crop still doesn't move, I'd have to consider surgery.
If the laculose doesnt move the lead out, nothing will...except maybe surgery.
So they haven't been tube feeding her this whole time she's been there?
-Kathy
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I see the pellets now. Thank you.
You are doing remarkably.
the tube feeding hopefully will loosen up the crop material to pass.
I hope it will help.
Regards,
mg
You are doing remarkably.
the tube feeding hopefully will loosen up the crop material to pass.
I hope it will help.
Regards,
mg
I thought I should say that you are a great owner and your chicken is so lucky to be owned by you.
-Kathy
-Kathy
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