Ckhoward08
In the Brooder
- Apr 9, 2025
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My 2 year old Amber-link hen has been showing weird symptoms for the last 2 weeks. One day I noticed she had dried blood on her beak and would occasionally stand around, then when I would let her out to free range its as if her beak hurt to peck at stuff and she couldn’t really swallow. So I kept an eye on her for the next few days and it was as if she was fine.
Then another week later, this past Sunday I noticed clear bubbly liquid coming out of her mouth and she was definitely thinner. I hurried and separated her from the flock and put her in a pen in my garage and sanitized all the feeders and waterers. Once I got her settled in I noticed her crop was very squishy like a water balloon and when pressing on it she made gurgling sounds and clear mucus came out. So then I was like okay this must be sour crop. Her breath has a smell but it’s not very bad. I decided to research and seen to withhold food and water for 24 hours then water for 12 hours, then give her plain greek yogurt and Monistat 7, 1/2 ML for 7 days.
It is now day 4 and I have tried everything under the sun to try and help her get better if it is sour crop. ACV, soft foods, Monistat, olive oil incase she has an obstruction….. nothing seems to be working. She has been bleeding from her mouth since Monday night after giving her food again. By the second day her crop was completely empty but she still has gurgling noises and that’s when the blood started coming out and she would shake her head and it looked like blood clots coming out. I never flipped her upside down to drain her crop because I didn’t want her to aspirate.
Her symptoms are: gurgling nosies when she swallows, mild sour breath, blood and clots coming from mouth, small white spot in mouth, hard to eat/ swallow, opens mouth and shakes after swallowing, doesn’t want to bend down to drink or eat unless she’s really hungry, and she is definitely loosing weight fast. None of my other chickens are showing any symptoms so I don’t think it’s canker or Infectious Laryngotracheitis.
Other than those symptoms she acts fine. She walks and runs, dirt bathes but doesn’t preen herself anymore. Nothing is coming out of her nose or eyes so the main issue is it looks like it hurts her to eat and she bleeds from her mouth after. She is a chicken that walks around and tries eating litter so I’m thinking she ate something and has a cut somewhere or has throat cancer.
We have pine shavings in our coop along with hemp under roost, dirt and pelletized pine in the run most of the pelletized pine has turned into dust (run flooded after storm so had to use it). I was feeding them nutrena naturewise all flock and now switched to Kalmbach flock maker but she hasn’t had any of that yet.
I really want to try and figure it out myself before finding a vet. She is a hybrid breed so maybe she has cancer idk… I have spent hours researching and cannot find anything similar to all of the symptoms she’s having. So hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I will insert a link below to google drive of a photo and video of Henrietta.
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1aNGqmY21X-YlaOHMCCsByxIxhO92BQVk
Then another week later, this past Sunday I noticed clear bubbly liquid coming out of her mouth and she was definitely thinner. I hurried and separated her from the flock and put her in a pen in my garage and sanitized all the feeders and waterers. Once I got her settled in I noticed her crop was very squishy like a water balloon and when pressing on it she made gurgling sounds and clear mucus came out. So then I was like okay this must be sour crop. Her breath has a smell but it’s not very bad. I decided to research and seen to withhold food and water for 24 hours then water for 12 hours, then give her plain greek yogurt and Monistat 7, 1/2 ML for 7 days.
It is now day 4 and I have tried everything under the sun to try and help her get better if it is sour crop. ACV, soft foods, Monistat, olive oil incase she has an obstruction….. nothing seems to be working. She has been bleeding from her mouth since Monday night after giving her food again. By the second day her crop was completely empty but she still has gurgling noises and that’s when the blood started coming out and she would shake her head and it looked like blood clots coming out. I never flipped her upside down to drain her crop because I didn’t want her to aspirate.
Her symptoms are: gurgling nosies when she swallows, mild sour breath, blood and clots coming from mouth, small white spot in mouth, hard to eat/ swallow, opens mouth and shakes after swallowing, doesn’t want to bend down to drink or eat unless she’s really hungry, and she is definitely loosing weight fast. None of my other chickens are showing any symptoms so I don’t think it’s canker or Infectious Laryngotracheitis.
Other than those symptoms she acts fine. She walks and runs, dirt bathes but doesn’t preen herself anymore. Nothing is coming out of her nose or eyes so the main issue is it looks like it hurts her to eat and she bleeds from her mouth after. She is a chicken that walks around and tries eating litter so I’m thinking she ate something and has a cut somewhere or has throat cancer.
We have pine shavings in our coop along with hemp under roost, dirt and pelletized pine in the run most of the pelletized pine has turned into dust (run flooded after storm so had to use it). I was feeding them nutrena naturewise all flock and now switched to Kalmbach flock maker but she hasn’t had any of that yet.
I really want to try and figure it out myself before finding a vet. She is a hybrid breed so maybe she has cancer idk… I have spent hours researching and cannot find anything similar to all of the symptoms she’s having. So hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I will insert a link below to google drive of a photo and video of Henrietta.
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1aNGqmY21X-YlaOHMCCsByxIxhO92BQVk
