Hoping someone can help me. My 7 1/2 year old buff Orpington is having difficulty eating and drinking, and the concern is becoming real. It started late April, following winter in Minnesota, I thought she had a dirty beak. Snow had just melted, everything kind of muddy. After several weeks it was clear that it was not mud, rather blood. And there looked to be a little hole in her lower beak. She was behaving normally at this time. About three weeks ago, some days, her beak looking better than others, her face swelled up, and her eye closed. Unsure whether she was hurt or if it’s some thing else, we started putting Neosporin on her beak, saline drops in her eyes, ibuprofen for the pain & swelling, and children’s Benadryl as recommended by an online vet. After a week or so, the little hole in her lower beak seemed to heal, but no real change in her face. We began to suspect that it was not an injury, but possibly respiratory disease, and put her on Amtyl 500, which is amoxicillin and Tylosin pill. We manually inserted pill for five days, and manually fed and watered her. Now it has been three days since her last pill, and still is not eating except what we give her manually. It seems as if her lower beak isn’t working properly and with one eye working she doesn’t seem to be able to get the food in her mouth despite her efforts. She now also appears agitated when we pick her up… she’s probably tired of my husbands fingers in her mouth, poor girl. Please does anyone have any ideas? @Eggcessive, you have helped me in the past many times, any thoughts? She is the sweetest little Buffy, we call her Ginger <3 it’s finally her turn to be at the top of the pecking order!
