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    Day 7 with Lethargic sick RIR hen More Advice Needed PLEASE

    Here she is eating a little watermelon. Oddly she does not want to eat food in the bowl or feeders right now ..cleaned up for photo and then back with food on the floor of the crate.
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    Day 7 with Lethargic sick RIR hen More Advice Needed PLEASE

    Also thought I was going to have to syringe her with the vitamin/electrolyte mix but hubby put in a slice of watermelon and she has eaten some of it. Also fixed up another scrambled egg with eggshell and she ate a little mainly after the shell. Is the process to recovery generally this slow as...
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    Day 7 with Lethargic sick RIR hen More Advice Needed PLEASE

    Thanks sumi for the response. I thought she might have an intestinal infection or something and tough to tempt her with food. I pick grass and clover as she will eat that. The egg she eats about 1/4 of a scrambled egg with eggshell crushed. As for the wormers, I did not realize how limited...
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    Day 7 with Lethargic sick RIR hen More Advice Needed PLEASE

    Hen still is not responding well and once again asking for advice. I have spent countless hours reading on BYC and confused as to what to do next. It appears she had mites and has been dusted and head shaking is not near as bad. She did eat scrambled egg with egg shell this morning. But...
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    Lethargic, dehydrated, not eating, head shaking... hen progress....Day 5

    since I have not received any responses I did check through a search on this site and found that clover is poisonous for chickens...go figure. How can clover be poisonous? I cleaned it all out of the crate and put grass in there too since she has no desire to eat chicken food.
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    Lethargic, dehydrated, not eating, head shaking... hen progress....Day 5

    Hen still eating clover but doesn't want to eat food...why would it be drawn to the clover?
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    Lethargic, dehydrated, not eating, head shaking... hen progress....Day 5

    here is the link to the ivermectin application for worms, lice and mites. I am looking to see if anyone has done this and if they recommend along with whether I should wait to do since my gal has been compromised.
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    Lethargic, dehydrated, not eating, head shaking... hen progress....Day 5

    Ok day 5 with my RIR gal who is 3yrs old. I am posting this in hope that I can get interaction in comments as for what I have done so far and what is going on with her. 1. Thought that since my one hen had the runs that I had worms so treated with Wazine 17 ...the entire flock (4 hens)...
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    UPDATE on sick hen need advise PLEASE!!

    Ok...my gal is dusted as good as I could do....she is having a fit pecking herself all over. Do not know if the critters are reacting to the dusting thus my hen can feel it...I do not know...but have to admit that I had to smile after 4 days of stress worrying about her as she stomped her feet...
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    UPDATE on sick hen need advise PLEASE!!

    Went to pick up ivermectin and poultry dusting powder. Going ahead and dust her for I haven't seen any responses regarding my post.
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    Sick Hen, Need Advice.

    Electrolytes is a good start...she could be dehydrated ...I am in kind of the same situation as you as I have been treating my RIR gal. But the electrolytes bought me some time. Hopefully someone else can help you too.
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    UPDATE on sick hen need advise PLEASE!!

    I did give her safeguard treating for any possible worms via bread ...she did eat the bread.
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    UPDATE on sick hen need advise PLEASE!!

    My RIR gal is still alive to date. I did yet another "bath" on the butt and soaked her longer to clean it up. My husband was holding her and claimed he saw white things moving on her head...lice...mites...I do not know. She is "drying" right now but want to treat for mites and lice. What do...
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    How to t feed a sick chicken and give subcutaneous fluid

    Thanks for posting!! :)
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    Please help regarding Ivermetican

    looking at the safe guard bottle it shows to give a goat at 25 pounds .6 ml so I am wrong at my math. So if it is a hen at 6.5 pounds would that then be .15 to administer directly?
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