Chicken seems dizzy: off most food but drinks water

grnidone

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Jul 9, 2016
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I have a chicken who seems dizzy. She walks slowly and often has to take a step to get her balance.

She has feeling in both feet, as she pulls her feet away if I pinch her toes.

I have palpated her and she doesn’t seem sore or have any knots.

She has a normal crop.

She won’t eat anything except liquid scrambled eggs. She picks at cooked scrambled eggs.

She drinks all the water I give her.

She seems in good health except for the fact she won’t eat much. Her eyes are bright. Her comb red.

I’ve given her vitamin rooster booster in her drinking water and a dose of worming meds.

She poops out water and maybe worms?

I don’t know what else to do.
 
How old is she? Does she lay eggs? Does she have stringy white urates in her poop? Can you post any pictures of her and her poop? How does her crop feel—empty and flat, full, squishy, doughy, or hard? Have the others kept her from food and water possibly? I would try some watery chicken feed up to her beak.
 
She’s about 3 and has been laying eggs. I have her inside right now and away from the others. Her crop feels empty because she is on day 3 of eating nothing but liquid egg and drinking water.

She is always eager to drink water.

Even as little as she is eating, she is acting relatively normal.

No white things in her poop. I’ll try to get a photo of her and her poop.
 
I’ve attached a photo of her poop. I had to enlarge it just so it could be seen, the actual size is maybe a quarter of an inch. (4 millimeters.)

The rest of it is Mostly clear water.
 

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