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Layenna and chicks
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- Mar 17, 2025
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OK I'll try in the morning thank you SOO much!!!I would try to get her drinking some electrolytes or sugar water, and then eating in the morning. You canntey to drain her with an 18 or 20 gaguge needle and syringe after disinfecting her belly. But water belly is usually fatal eventually. It happens from reproductive disorders such as salpingitis or egg yolk peritonitis, cancer, fatty liver disease, or heart failure. Here in post 13 are some pictures of draining a hen with water belly:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hen-with-extremely-bloated-abdomen.946026/page-2