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Update edit: I consider this almost an emergency now. She is getting weaker, standing and closing her eyes, which have had a sleepy look the last two days. She won't compete to eat very close to the other chicken now - she used to be the dominant girl. She is drinking alot of water from the nipple waterer, and has wanted more water for a few weeks now. She does eat a little from the hanging round feeder. I just brought her in to the crate again to see if she could eat without any competition, and she is not eating. She is just on the perch with her eyes closed. Please see below for some history and questions about antibiotic or wormer toward the end. Thank you.
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I'm writing for help again. Lucy (will be 2 in early March) completed the miconazole a couple of days ago. (Tried the coconut oil first, which seemed to help clear out what may have been a blockage.) Every morning she still has a doughy crop, never a sour smell. The crop bra arrives in 5 days, but I'm not convinced she has a pendulous crop in light of efforts to help her so far. I continue to massage a few times a day, especially to initially soften it in the early morning.
I put their wire run in the garage a couple of days ago to reunite them (and we are dropping down the next week to around zero degrees) and she's still in the hard molt, since mid-December. I put her back with the other RIR Gracie on Wednesday in the garage where it won't freeze. I also wanted to see how she would do in a more normal environment with her flock mate.
Lucy has been eating and drinking, but still has very watery poop with digested food in it. I put a call in on Tuesday, the sixth day of miconazole treatment, to the vet that did the fecal float test the week before asking if there is a more effective prescription yeast medicine and he has not returned my call. There are no chicken vets in my area.
I am not a vet or any kind of medical professional, but I researched and came up with these possibilities: salpingitis, infectious bronchitis (since the other chicken has always had reproductive issues, neither has ever had respiratory symptoms), cloacitis (since vent is very clean, possible in intestines or uterus?), or just a hard molt.
The other possibility since the vet thought he MIGHT have seen a roundworm and cropworm, are one or both of these. I have SafeGuard but read you aren't supposed to use it when they are molting. But, she is shrinking away. Her normal weight before was 5 lbs 9 oz, last week she was 4 lbs 14 oz, and this morning first thing she is 3 lbs. 11 oz. In September, they were both treated for tapes with Equimax paste once and then again in 10 days. Have not seen any tapes since.
Can I worm her considering her condition? Do I attempt to try to find an antibiotic and if so what do you recommend? I am now well practiced using the 1 ml/cc syringe which I used for the miconazole. For two weeks now I've used either Poultry Cell or Rooster Booster electrolytes/vitamins in her water.
Thank you for your help.
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I'm writing for help again. Lucy (will be 2 in early March) completed the miconazole a couple of days ago. (Tried the coconut oil first, which seemed to help clear out what may have been a blockage.) Every morning she still has a doughy crop, never a sour smell. The crop bra arrives in 5 days, but I'm not convinced she has a pendulous crop in light of efforts to help her so far. I continue to massage a few times a day, especially to initially soften it in the early morning.
I put their wire run in the garage a couple of days ago to reunite them (and we are dropping down the next week to around zero degrees) and she's still in the hard molt, since mid-December. I put her back with the other RIR Gracie on Wednesday in the garage where it won't freeze. I also wanted to see how she would do in a more normal environment with her flock mate.
Lucy has been eating and drinking, but still has very watery poop with digested food in it. I put a call in on Tuesday, the sixth day of miconazole treatment, to the vet that did the fecal float test the week before asking if there is a more effective prescription yeast medicine and he has not returned my call. There are no chicken vets in my area.
I am not a vet or any kind of medical professional, but I researched and came up with these possibilities: salpingitis, infectious bronchitis (since the other chicken has always had reproductive issues, neither has ever had respiratory symptoms), cloacitis (since vent is very clean, possible in intestines or uterus?), or just a hard molt.
The other possibility since the vet thought he MIGHT have seen a roundworm and cropworm, are one or both of these. I have SafeGuard but read you aren't supposed to use it when they are molting. But, she is shrinking away. Her normal weight before was 5 lbs 9 oz, last week she was 4 lbs 14 oz, and this morning first thing she is 3 lbs. 11 oz. In September, they were both treated for tapes with Equimax paste once and then again in 10 days. Have not seen any tapes since.
Can I worm her considering her condition? Do I attempt to try to find an antibiotic and if so what do you recommend? I am now well practiced using the 1 ml/cc syringe which I used for the miconazole. For two weeks now I've used either Poultry Cell or Rooster Booster electrolytes/vitamins in her water.
Thank you for your help.
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