[jameslindsay]

I have a chook looking miserable, any one able to help? She is puffed up in to a ball with no neck. She is eating ok but looking pathetic, seemed quite light when I lifted her.

[Rosemary]

Colour of comb and watttles? Any lice?

[jameslindsay]

No lice and her comb is upright and still red.

[shetlandpaul]

wormed, laying ok.

[jameslindsay]

Yes to wormed, not sure about laying as I have some older girls that don't lay every day so no idea who lays and who doesn't.

[harry]

if i ever find one like that and it is easy to pick up ie wont run away, thin, sad looking obviously somethings wrong and this weather will probably get worse i end its misery the quick way. if its skinny it isnt eating.

[Farmer]

Found one of ours in the same condition just before winter set in...lost her...still don't know what was wrong...hope you find the answer...oh, just remembered that a friend told me to try a drop of Brandy/whiskey...it was too late for ours by then.

Best of luck

John 

[shetlandpaul]

for you or the chuck

[Farmer]

Oops...is that why it died? 

[shetlandpaul]

are you sure it was dead and not snoring.

[jameslindsay]

She's still alive anyway. I have put her in to a bed on her own tonight. She was walking around this afternoon but still just not her self.

[langdon]

we just had one last week with same symptoums when i say we had her,
we unfortuntley had to kill her.
like your she was like a ball but really healthy looking eating ok come was not that great
isolated from others all the time her choice or the others we dont know.
but when we were checking over all the other ghucks last week we done her last.
my wife took her and checked her breast if there might be a growth or something which might explain her puffness,
as beth stroked her this green smelly poisionus stuff came pouring out with some indigested feed.
as said she was ill so as not to let her suffer anymore and chance of others catching something i put her out of her misery.
dont know if this might help but how you explained her condition i thought i might send this

[spoon]

sounds like it went light same thing happens in greenfinches

[shetlandpaul]

we just had one last week with same symptoms when i say we had her,
we unfortunately had to kill her.
like your she was like a ball but really healthy looking eating OK come was not that great
isolated from others all the time her choice or the others we don't know.
but when we were checking over all the other chucks last week we done her last.
my wife took her and checked her breast if there might be a growth or something which might explain her puffiness,
as beth stroked her this green smelly poisonous stuff came pouring out with some indigested feed.
as said she was ill so as not to let her suffer anymore and chance of others catching something i put her out of her misery.
don't know if this might help but how you explained her condition i thought i might send this

sounds like sour crop. there was an intresting discussion on its treatment. maybe worth looking it up. its not always fatal.

To treat sour crop if it develops you should start by holding your chicken upside down with the head away from you and gently massage the crop from bottom to top so that the fluid is released.

Once this has been done mix some natural (live) yogurt into the layers pellets or mash and feed this to the bird along with water mixed with apple cider vinegar as described below throughout the day.

You will probably need to repeat this over three days until the crop stops filling and the bacteria in the crop returns to normal. In the event the problem persists for more than a week seek a vet's advice as a course of antiphonal medicine may be required.

[jameslindsay]

When I went out this morning she was in a terrible way so we had to let her go. Weird how she just went down hill.