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Chirping
- Apr 30, 2023
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1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Barred Rock Hen / 1 year old / chicken is swollen and puffy
2) What is the behavior, exactly. Lethargic, water coming from the mouth, comb turning purple, diarrhea, abdomen severely swollen.
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? Since yesterday morning.
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms? No.
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma. No.
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation. Nothing that I'm aware of.
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all. Yesterday she ate some laying mash and drank electrolytes as well as regular water.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc. When she pooped yesterday it was runny.
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far? Yesterday we tried to check to see if she had an egg stuck, felt no egg. We gave her a 10 minute Epsom salt bath (that's all she would tolerate before she started fighting). Her comb wasn't purple then and she seemed to perk up after the bath and even began eating and drinking.
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet? I want to treat myself because there are no poultry veterinarians anywhere near where we live.
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use Run is filled with sand, inside the house is filled with pine shavings, nesting box is filled with pine shavings on top of artificial turf.
We found her lethargic but still moving around some yesterday and she had a swollen abdominal region. We felt for an egg but didn't feel one. Regardless we soaked her in an epsom salt bath for 10 minutes while massaging the swollen abdomen. We dried her and kept her isolated until she was fully dry, used olive oil to lube her vent, and then returned her to the coop. While in isolation and once in the coop she ate laying mash, drank water, and drank electrolytes. She was acting somewhat back to normal with a little swelling still when she went to bed. Since we did not feel an egg and she was having diarrhea, we thought it might be vent gleet instead of egg bind. Today her comb is turning purple and she is completely lethargic. We have put her in isolation again and she is just laying down in front of her water. She is swollen way more today, probably double the size she was yesterday. That I know of, she hasn't eaten or drank anything. When I picked her up to bring her into the house to isolate her, liquid came out of her mouth.
We deeply care for our chickens and she's one of our more affectionate hens. There are no livestock veterinarians anywhere near our area but we want to do whatever we can to save her.
2) What is the behavior, exactly. Lethargic, water coming from the mouth, comb turning purple, diarrhea, abdomen severely swollen.
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? Since yesterday morning.
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms? No.
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma. No.
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation. Nothing that I'm aware of.
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all. Yesterday she ate some laying mash and drank electrolytes as well as regular water.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc. When she pooped yesterday it was runny.
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far? Yesterday we tried to check to see if she had an egg stuck, felt no egg. We gave her a 10 minute Epsom salt bath (that's all she would tolerate before she started fighting). Her comb wasn't purple then and she seemed to perk up after the bath and even began eating and drinking.
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet? I want to treat myself because there are no poultry veterinarians anywhere near where we live.
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use Run is filled with sand, inside the house is filled with pine shavings, nesting box is filled with pine shavings on top of artificial turf.
We found her lethargic but still moving around some yesterday and she had a swollen abdominal region. We felt for an egg but didn't feel one. Regardless we soaked her in an epsom salt bath for 10 minutes while massaging the swollen abdomen. We dried her and kept her isolated until she was fully dry, used olive oil to lube her vent, and then returned her to the coop. While in isolation and once in the coop she ate laying mash, drank water, and drank electrolytes. She was acting somewhat back to normal with a little swelling still when she went to bed. Since we did not feel an egg and she was having diarrhea, we thought it might be vent gleet instead of egg bind. Today her comb is turning purple and she is completely lethargic. We have put her in isolation again and she is just laying down in front of her water. She is swollen way more today, probably double the size she was yesterday. That I know of, she hasn't eaten or drank anything. When I picked her up to bring her into the house to isolate her, liquid came out of her mouth.
We deeply care for our chickens and she's one of our more affectionate hens. There are no livestock veterinarians anywhere near our area but we want to do whatever we can to save her.