3 year old cream legbar looks on deaths door..

[Anonymous]

Hello. Our 3 year old cream legbar has lost a lot of weight, is inactive, struggles to jump even a one foot wall, has slightly twitchy head and stands with droopy tail and head bowed. She's passing runny whitish liquidy poo, sometimes quite a lot in the nest box. Can anyone help with any ideas on what it could be and how we might be able to treat her?

 

[E3lx]

Hi, welcome to the forum! 99 99
is she eating wel? is she laying, drinking?
how long has this been going on for?

 

[chrismahon]

Is it sour crop so does her breath smell and her crop feel very squidgy? We have a 3 and a half year old CLB who had similar symptoms to yours but a very swollen bottom which the vet said was a massive tumour and pronounced the end is nigh. Shortly after she discharged a HUGE amount of fluid in the night. Next night less fluid and laid 6 days later.
Has she got an egg duct infection to be in the nest box discharging this?
By the sounds of it an urgent trip to the vet is in order as she may not have enough in her to last our speculating about what it might be.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your responses. In answer, she's been detriorating for about a week, praps a bit longer, no sign of squidgy crop & enquiries to the vet seemed to be that in her condition they wouldn't hold out a lot of hope. She's warm in an open box with a view of her friends wondering around her. I doubt she'll survive the day. This is the bit I hate about having animals.

 

[chrismahon]

Very sorry to hear that Billarke. Important that she keeps drinking even if you have to force some down her. We give our sick birds fruit treats to get their appetite back but it sounds like its her turn to go. CLB's are, in our experience, very fragile birds. We've lost 3 of 5, one at 8 months with Lymphoid Lucosis after laying a few eggs, one at 9 months with a heart attack during her first encounter with a cockerel and one at two and a half years got so excited at treat time she had a fit and died. Yet Lucy, mentioned before, has had coccidiosis twice, a swollen abdomen which 'burst' twice, shed her ovaduct lining 12 months ago (infection?) and has had ILT and IB. She started laying again 4 months ago to our amazement then got ill again twice (just a bit droopy and very runny poos) and finally recovered last week (after gorging herself for weeks on cherries) and laid on Sunday and again yesterday. She is now 3 and a half and still a bit fragile so needs help on and off the 18" high perch sometimes and complains when you give it too. When we finally settle somewhere I would like more, as they are my favourites, even though they don't talk much.