6 month old pullet can't stand/walk

[BellaMay95]

She just smells like chicken right now, so hopefully not so bad yet? Can this be a secondary symptom from her not eating much for the past day or two? Or is it likely this was her issue all along? She's still drinking a bunch of water but not touching the food still. She's still having watery poops so she's not backed up on the other end yet.

I did the crop massage but not sure if it did anything. I can pick up one of those medicines on my way home from work today... Is one better than the other and what is the egg withdrawal period on each? Also any suggestions on what's the best form to get it in to get it down her since she's not eating?

 

[BellaMay95]

Since she is drinking water though I did just add some ACV and garlic to her water for today until I can pick up something more for her...ideally the natural remedies would help her out but if she needs the stronger medicine I'll give it to her.

 

[Eggcessive]

Never massage a squishy crop, since it can cause crop contents to come back up into the throat causing choking. It is okay to massage a firm solid crop after giving coconut or other oil to break up an impaction. This article by azygous is pretty good for crop issues:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

 

[BellaMay95]

She died overnight.

Yesterday I force-fed her a couple tiny pieces of the bread soaked in oil and when I got home in the evening if I put yogurt on her beak she'd eat it so I thought we were going to get there. Last confirmed time I saw her eating of her own accord was Wednesday morning and then I didn't catch her sour crop until yesterday morning (Friday) so I think it was just too late to help her at that point unless I did crop surgery or something to drain it out and get a good meal in her sadly.

 

[Eggcessive]

I am sorry that you lost her. I would want to find out what was wrong with her in case of Mareks or some other type of problem that caused her crop not to empty. If you keep her body refrigerated in a cooler on ice, you can contact your state vet lab and take her or send her body in for a necropsy to find some answers. Here is a list of state vet labs to contact, with instructions on how to keep the body, and many labs are only working M-F.
https://www.metzerfarms.com/poultry...7IOlHOhP-eD8qMtZ70RNq6BMO9kVUn3x6so7q0Z_JgEr8

 

[DAISYROO]

Hi all -- my girl Ethel is a 6 month old black copper marans pullet and just this evening I noticed she can't hold herself up to stand.
She is laying, and she did lay an egg today (I have a camera on the nesting boxes plus I collected 10 eggs for 10 hens) so she's not eggbound.
She is alert and everything she just can't hold herself up. Her legs look fine, no obvious injuries and her reflexes did move her toes/pull her legs up when I stroked them.
I did re-check the camera and she was the last girl to lay this afternoon and she used her wings to get herself out of the nesting box and onto the coop floor (coop kit design has the roosts on an upper level next to the nesting boxes with a run underneath with the food/water). It was a warm afternoon in the 80s today.
When I first saw her laying in the coop I thought I was just interrupting her "carcass time" and she seemed alert enough. I came back out about 1-1.5 hours later to check on her and I took her out of the coop just to see if she was okay and that's when I noticed she couldn't pick herself up. I held her up to the feeder/waterer and she ate some but she really went to town on the water.
I have 10 chickens, Ethel and the 6 others her age usually sleep in that same coop and then the 3 chickens (11 months) have a little coop but they all run around the backyard together during the day. I moved the 3 older chickens into the bigger coop with the young ones and put Ethel in the little coop by herself to sleep.
I did notice some runny poop in the coop where Ethel was sitting in the evening, I know it's hers because I scooped out the coop when I got home (and moved her so I could scoop under her) but not sure if that means anything?
Do you think she was just super dehydrated/exhausted from laying the egg in the warm temperatures and she'll be better in the morning? Anything I should check her for in the morning/do for her other than obviously make sure feed/water is accessible before I leave for work? Everybody else is acting all happy as a clam.
If it is heat exhaustion buttercup is going to have to toughen up...the coop thermometer only registered 83.7°F and Texas is only getting started...

IF she is wheezy that is the respitory system so a sulphur based antibiotic is needed like trisaprim or sulprim however garlic is also a sulphur antibiotic , crush a clove and add some water or honey( real honey from a hive not the crap you get in supermarket is also an antibiotic and give some TWO times a day ( my Isabrown sized hen id give 1-2 ml 2x a day for 5 days )syringe up garlic water then for the next 5 days garlic in the drinking .water ( chop up a couple of cloves of garlic and plonk in the flocks drinking water ( i use two small/ medium sized cloves to a 6 litre water tub .