lovezebs Well no, I was oblivious to why she was cold, limp, and having seizures for a long time.
I warmed her up and gave her some guardian angel, annnnd then as soon as she stabilized she pooped dark, black chocolate. I was horrified.
She survived the chocolate, but then she got a horrible sour crop and started throwing up all over the place and getting worse. I would give her more yogurt and guardian angel, the infection cleared at once and she would perk back up for an hour or do and then act devastated again. I could not figure out what was wrong and why she still was acting sick after the yeast had gone, so I felt her crop to see if it still had some chocolate in there, and I did feel a soft obstruction. We gave her lots of oil and massage, but the object would not move up or down. She was continually vomiting this whole time, I got it in my eyes and all. And my mouth.
I tried to get the object out with a syringe, no good. I tried to get it out with a hemostat. Nope. Then I tried a small, fine crochet hook and grabbed onto what felt like a string or a loop of some kind. I could pull the object nearly to where it would be visible in her throat, but then encountered resistance and I would have to let it go. For 11 or 10 hours, me and Heta sat in front of the open oven, trying to keep her warm and hydrated while we tried to help her pass the obstruction. She was vomiting so frequently that she couldn't keep any food down and was essentially starving. I would feed her with a syringe straight into the crop every two hours like a baby, and she would throw at least half of it back up. She was straining her neck to try and empty her crop, and she was straining to poo and wasn't able because no food was going through her.
We kept at this ALL DAY until I noticed her abdomen started to swell and become more and more distended, and I felt her crop- BINGO the obstruction had moved to the other end! She got a hot bath followed by olive oil enema, followed by a saline rinse, and she finally passed the obstruction.
Apparently she had also eaten a hair band pony tail holder thing, and it was covered in chocolate. The entire room smelled like chocolate, and once the obstruction was out there was no more chocolate, or anything else, inside my hen. She didn't smell like chocolate for very long.
She is incredibly exhausted, but can now walk, drink, eat, groom herself and poo, and is no longer actively dying. I am stressed and exhausted from this ordeal and keeping her in a box by the bed so I can check on her during the night. She still could very well die, there was a lot of straight cocoa in her guts for who knows how long, but she is comfortable and relieved and not in any pain or nausea, so I'm happy.