Hi all...

 

I am concerned about my hen: she is active, eating, not fluffed up, her droppings are quite solid but seem to have a lot of water in them...?? I hope that makes sence.....

 

She has finished raising a clutch of 5 chicks about a month ago, she was put in a cage by herself for 2 weeks after that, and seemed fine up until now.

 

I have removed her from the aviary cleaned her up, and put her in the hospital cage inside with a heat lamp and I started sulfer meds today.....Is there anything else I can do? I will take her to the Vet on Monday if there is no improvement.

 

All my other birds at this stage seem fine.....there is no dampness in the avairy....

 

 

 

 

Any progress from yesterday?

Hi, If you go to top of forum, you'll see pinned articles. There is one called poopology etc. if you read through that it might be able to give you a clue about what it is. Or someone more experienced might be better help. Have you changed her diet? or maybe it's something to do with just having laid etc. Good luck with it hope she improves.

Thanks Robyn and Ratzy....She is still active and eating/drinking etc......I cleaned her up yesterday so she is now clean and has stayed clean today, the droppings on the newspaper are the same though....fairly solid but watery.......I will keep going with the sulfer meds...

 

 

Thanks Robyn......this is what it sounds like....

 

 

Watery droppings: An increase in the amount of urine is often confused with diarrhea. The fecal matter will be the same, but there will be notably more fluid around the feces. A change in the color of the urine is also a warning. Excessive watery vegetables, poor quality or dirty water and even the stress from being moved to a new home can cause watery droppings.

 

 

I will still take her to the vet tomorrow......just in case...

Edited February 14, 201015 yr by anne101

Poor girl. Maybe stick to feeding just seed until then and see if it helps (if you're not doing it already). This will rule out the food related runs. Good luck and please let us know how you go.

Thanks Maesie.....will update tomorrow.

Update on my hen....

 

I took her to the vet, they put some poo under microscope and she had worms...

I felt really bad that this could have been prevented if I had wormed them all when I was supposed to....

 

She is 100% fine now and I have treated all my flock.

 

I learned this lesson the hard and expensive way!

OOPS

im glad you let us know what was wrong alot of people dont believe you need to worm your birds but it can kill them just as quickly as other things and so easy to prevent

glad it was nothing worse darl

mites and worms is very important to treat for thats why ivomectim is such a good investment even if thats the only thing you ever do :rip:

 

hands up on getting her checked

Great job Anne and well done on finding out what it was! This is excellent information for the rest of us.

Good job Anne, maybe expensive but a lesson learned for everybody. The end result is the main thing. Sometimes the smallest things are the biggest threat. Glad you Hen is o.k. now

Glad she doing better. We all make mistakes, the important thing is to learn from them. Hopefully others will too. Great news and thanks for the update.

I think it may have been mentioned before..........but we often advise about worming here and a lot of our overseas members wonder why we advocate worming a bird. It seems not to be advised overseas like we are here.

It is a job so easily forgotten to unless we mark it on the calender.

Time my birds were done again too

Edited February 27, 201015 yr by KAZ

Thank you all for the support.....but I still feel like a bit of a tosser! So easily preventable....

 

On the calendar it is now Kaz..... I give the dogs a chewable tablet on the 1st of each month, now the birds reminder is on the 1st day of the month every 3 months!

.....but I still feel like a bit of a tosser!

 

Sounds like something I'd say!!! We all have these moments, don't stress, really xo

Edited February 27, 201015 yr by maesie