Hi,
We have a 10 month old female Belgian d’Uccle that weighs 410g who has been showing increasing signs of illness. Her symptoms are:
Head shaking/twitching that appears to be getting worse over the last 2 weeks. She’s not her usual self and is clearly uncomfortable. She has her eyes closed during the day with minimal foraging, displaying anti-social behaviour, she’s still eating and in the early evening she seems to perk up a bit. Her outer ear canal is flaky/dry with some discharge [photos attached]. We have isolated her from the rest of the flock while we treat her with antifungal medication, electrolytes, probiotics and multi-vitamins that we’ve added to her water. We dewormed her again 2 days ago when her symptoms worsened and she has been previously treated for mites with Pestene and we’ve seen no signs of mites since.
Treatments given so far in the last 24hrs:
KilVERM wormer - 6.25ml: 125ml water (1 off dose)
We’ve not been to the vet due to their lack of avian knowledge as we live in a regional area. Our local stock feed/pet shops have been more helpful.
Our flock had been previously exposed to wild birds but we’re now stricter on bio-security so minimal contact has occurred in the last 6 weeks. Our chickens’ free range in our small yard so complete isolation from wild birds isn’t possible.
1 month ago our Silkie died within 1 week of showing symptoms due to some sort of neurological disorder which caused loss of balance, lethargy, weight loss, loss of appetite and nystagmus.
We would really appreciate some help from those with experience as we are very new to keeping chickens and we couldn’t bear to lose another one if we could’ve prevented it. Thanks.
We have a 10 month old female Belgian d’Uccle that weighs 410g who has been showing increasing signs of illness. Her symptoms are:
Head shaking/twitching that appears to be getting worse over the last 2 weeks. She’s not her usual self and is clearly uncomfortable. She has her eyes closed during the day with minimal foraging, displaying anti-social behaviour, she’s still eating and in the early evening she seems to perk up a bit. Her outer ear canal is flaky/dry with some discharge [photos attached]. We have isolated her from the rest of the flock while we treat her with antifungal medication, electrolytes, probiotics and multi-vitamins that we’ve added to her water. We dewormed her again 2 days ago when her symptoms worsened and she has been previously treated for mites with Pestene and we’ve seen no signs of mites since.
Treatments given so far in the last 24hrs:
- Nilstat applied orally - 1ml
- Avi vital – 1ml: 125ml water
- Coccioprol - 0.75g: 500ml water
- Clozole anti-fungal cream applied topically to ears (unsure if this OK)
KilVERM wormer - 6.25ml: 125ml water (1 off dose)
We’ve not been to the vet due to their lack of avian knowledge as we live in a regional area. Our local stock feed/pet shops have been more helpful.
Our flock had been previously exposed to wild birds but we’re now stricter on bio-security so minimal contact has occurred in the last 6 weeks. Our chickens’ free range in our small yard so complete isolation from wild birds isn’t possible.
1 month ago our Silkie died within 1 week of showing symptoms due to some sort of neurological disorder which caused loss of balance, lethargy, weight loss, loss of appetite and nystagmus.
We would really appreciate some help from those with experience as we are very new to keeping chickens and we couldn’t bear to lose another one if we could’ve prevented it. Thanks.