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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Bonzie on August 08, 2017, 03:20:13 pm

Title: Hen can't poop.
Post by: Bonzie on August 08, 2017, 03:20:13 pm

A four year old hen, has never laid, noticed yesterday she was straining to poop and all that is coming is the white part. Tried a warm water bath and massaged the vent and still no better and quite smelly, crop is soft and is eating and drinking......Any ideas!

Title: Re: Hen can't poop.
Post by: Marches Farmer on August 08, 2017, 03:46:04 pm

Hmm .... if she's never laid there could be something unusual going on inside.

Title: Re: Hen can't poop.
Post by: Eve on August 08, 2017, 08:28:42 pm

So just urates, no solids. But it's still white, not bright green? (If she hadn't eaten, she would squirt out bright green & white fluid, digestive acid).


How is she otherwise? Drinking? Active?

Title: Re: Hen can't poop.
Post by: Bonzie on August 08, 2017, 10:48:09 pm

Gave her another warm bath this evening and just as i sat her in the basin she started to strain again so I decided to try and feel inside the vent with my little finger and sure enough i released what looked like calcified urates and then some regular poop. So left some newspaper under the perch tonite ......Fingers crossed!