- Jun 6, 2011
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I need advice!!!
I have an 8-10 month old brahma chick that I hatched last fall. It's winter here and it's the time of year I usually do a general dewormer b/c we have cocci in the soil and I try to be proactive.
So as I was going out to check them all out, on a warmer day than usual, I noticed my brahma, who should be the biggest girl, was very thin on the breast bone. I immediately brought her inside, and began a water dewormer of corid. And I wanted to monitor her eating. It's been a week now, and she has become worse. Her appetite is minimal, if at all, and I'm syringe feeding her water.
I read up that after dewormer, if they are weak their whole GI tract gets bacterial, or shocky.
I've fed her, or tried, yogurt, cottage cheese, warm/wet mesh, corn meal and oatmeal.
My worry now is she isn't going to make it and I'm running out of ideas. We have no vets around here that work on chickens and my vet is about as knowledgable as his backyard flock gives him experience. IF anything, I give him advice
So, It's been a week and I see no improvement, if anything a weaker, more listless bird, and her poops are obviously green, watery, and staining the shavings. Should I try antibiotics? I can get some things from my work (at a vet) today if I Need to.
She definitely, other than cottage cheese, does not want mushy food. She appears to gravitate towards the crunchy seeds. (Corn meal, bird seed, sunflower seeds, etc)
I'm gonna pick up some Gatorade today or see if the local store has electrolytes.
All, my other chickens seems fine, and no issues with their corid dewormer this week. I"m going to follow up with a round worm dewormer next week as they still aren't laying very regularly. So I'll take advantage of the egg whiteout.
Let me stress, it hasn't been the coldest winter, and there is always pellets and water out there, that I refill every day. So, other than worms I can't find a thing that would stress her out to this extent.
Thanks
Dani in Main
I have an 8-10 month old brahma chick that I hatched last fall. It's winter here and it's the time of year I usually do a general dewormer b/c we have cocci in the soil and I try to be proactive.
So as I was going out to check them all out, on a warmer day than usual, I noticed my brahma, who should be the biggest girl, was very thin on the breast bone. I immediately brought her inside, and began a water dewormer of corid. And I wanted to monitor her eating. It's been a week now, and she has become worse. Her appetite is minimal, if at all, and I'm syringe feeding her water.
I read up that after dewormer, if they are weak their whole GI tract gets bacterial, or shocky.
I've fed her, or tried, yogurt, cottage cheese, warm/wet mesh, corn meal and oatmeal.
My worry now is she isn't going to make it and I'm running out of ideas. We have no vets around here that work on chickens and my vet is about as knowledgable as his backyard flock gives him experience. IF anything, I give him advice
So, It's been a week and I see no improvement, if anything a weaker, more listless bird, and her poops are obviously green, watery, and staining the shavings. Should I try antibiotics? I can get some things from my work (at a vet) today if I Need to.
She definitely, other than cottage cheese, does not want mushy food. She appears to gravitate towards the crunchy seeds. (Corn meal, bird seed, sunflower seeds, etc)
I'm gonna pick up some Gatorade today or see if the local store has electrolytes.
All, my other chickens seems fine, and no issues with their corid dewormer this week. I"m going to follow up with a round worm dewormer next week as they still aren't laying very regularly. So I'll take advantage of the egg whiteout.
Let me stress, it hasn't been the coldest winter, and there is always pellets and water out there, that I refill every day. So, other than worms I can't find a thing that would stress her out to this extent.
Thanks
Dani in Main
