Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: morbidia on August 24, 2012, 21:29
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One of my hens fell ill this week so I took her to the vets thay think that she has heart disease as her comb had a purple tinge to it and her abdomen was full of fluid, she also had a temperature. they drained the fliud and geve me meds to reduce the rest plus Baytril in case she has an infection. That was on wednesdey and I have been givingher the meds since then, she perked up initially but has gone downhill today, she won't eat or drink and when I was carrying her earlier I bent done to pick something up and accidentally tipped her up as I did this lots of liquid came out her beak, it was a yellowy brownish colour with bits of corn in it. I know she hasn't had any corn for a few days so it must have been sitting in her crop for a while. does anyone have any idea on what I can do and also whats the prognosis on keeping a hen going who has heart disease. I don't want to lose her but at the same time I don't want her to suffer either
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Could she have sour or impacted crop? It does sound as if she has some sort of crop blockage if she has corn still there after a few days. There are different treatments for the 2 conditions so you would need to find out which it may be.
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I was thinking sour crop but I have seen it before and I am not sure if this is the same, its defintely not impacted because its too soft and now empty
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I have read that you can use live fishing maggots to treat sour crop. The maggots eat the rotten food and clear the blockage.
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I found that when my bird had anti biotics she then had sour crop ... The vet said as this condition is a yeast infection the anti biotics have caused an imbalance and to give live bio yogurt to put back the good bacteria in crop. X
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Any update morbidia?