Help, egg bound vs water belly

[Jillpil]

I have a1 year old Americauna weighing maybe 3-4 pounds. She's not laid an egg since last summer and the last couple she laid were soft shelled. About a month ago i noticed she wasn't wanting to eat(Always been a good eater) so I separated her from the others. The following day she pooped and it was watery with what resembled like 3 small white beans. I took a picture and showed it to the lady at the local farm store and she said it looked like mauve she had prolapsed and probably wouldn't live long. Within a couple of days she was back to her normal self(still no eggs) but walked with a little bit of a waddle. Her belly has felt a little swollen but not rock hard or real squishy.
This past Thursday evening she was acting a little lethargic so I brought her into the house. Friday morning I gave her an epsom salt bath and lubricated her gleet with a little Vaseline which then made her poop(kinda watery) . After, when I took her back out to put her in a separate area she took off running into their house where they lay their eggs and sat on the nest. Yesterday, she was a little slow and I gave her another bath, lubed the gleet then treated her to a mashed hard boiled egg and she'll. She ate it right up. I went to check her this morning and she could hardly walk. I picked her up to bring her inside. Her belly felt a little more distended and kinda squishy now. She was panting a little and as i carried her this creamy yellow stuff came out of her back end. Her poop looked normal Yesterday and there was a normal one in her pen this morning. She doesn't want to drink and refused more boiled egg. She's not panting anymore. Just sitting in the bin. I don't know if i should try another epsom bath or just wait and see.
Is it OK to send a picture of what her back end looks like?

 

[Eggcessive]

Can you get a picture of the latest droppings? Did the yellow creamy dropping look like egg yolk or urates which are usually white? The 3 little beans you found last year may have been small lash egg material from salpingitis (inflammation of the oviduct.) It sounds like she has a reproductive disorder. Salpinigitis, egg yolk peritonitis, are common ones, and water belly can be a side effect. There is not much than can be done about those problems except possibly give some antibiotics, and try draining her belly if she is having labored breathing. Is her tail position down? Is her lower belly under her vent enlarged? Common antibiotics use are amoxicillin or enrofloxacin. You can one of those from jedds.com usually.

 

[RedHillChicken]

Can you get a picture of the latest droppings? Did the yellow creamy dropping look like egg yolk or urates which are usually white? The 3 little beans you found last year may have been small lash egg material from salpingitis (inflammation of the oviduct.) It sounds like she has a reproductive disorder. Salpinigitis, egg yolk peritonitis, are common ones, and water belly can be a side effect. There is not much than can be done about those problems except possibly give some antibiotics, and try draining her belly if she is having labored breathing. Is her tail position down? Is her lower belly under her vent enlarged? Common antibiotics use are amoxicillin or enrofloxacin. You can one of those from jedds.com usually.

@Eggcessive
I was reading this post since it was similar to what I just went through with Missy. Except for the breathing issues, Missy had none. Another post I just read, which had some of the same symptoms, said their vet gave the chicken tetracycline. Will viral or bacterial salpingitis respond to tetracycline? I read viral salpingitis can't be cured.

 

[Eggcessive]

It is hard to know whether salpingitis is viral or bacterial. You can still get some refrigerated oxytetracycline for cattle (LA 200) but I haven’t seen chicken tetracycline in years, since they took most oral antibiotics out of feed stores in 2017. Tetracyclines are more for respiratory diseases. Some reproductive infections can be from mycoplasma, but others are from E.coli and other intestinal bacteria. So, I usually recommend amoxicillin or enrofloxacin for reproductive infections. Enrofloxacin is banned for chickens, but some still use it. Vets are scared to prescribe most antibiotics, so some will just recommend tetracycline, since it used to be common to use. Salpingitis is not curable, but some articles say that if it is treated early it may help. It could extend the life. Here are a couple of links to read about it:
https://www.bhwt.org.uk/hen-health/health-problems/lash-eggs-salpingitis/

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...-system-in-poultry/egg-peritonitis-in-poultry

https://www.thepoultrysite.com/disease-guide/salpingitis