Just wanted to come back & say thank you again. I finished the second dosing cycle for worms yesterday & the miconazole came in the mail today. I'd been doing the feed mash with electrolyte water like you mentioned as well. Went out tonight to dose the miconazole treatment & her crop was...
She is in with younger birds & they probably wouldn't mind the mash. Can I turn her back out with them (she has been caged) & offer everyone mash consistency layer crumbles? They are bounded to her & everyone is struggling not being together.
I cannot think you enough for your help.
The entire under area of the coop is sand, pebbles, etc that I keep clean & raked. I don't offer bagged grit, if that's what you mean? Then they have another enclosure that is sand, dirt, rocks (we live on what used to be a quarry so our soil is obnoxiously rocky). I had weeded my garden &...
Would you recommend stopping the spice mix & the coconut oil since I'm not seeing any improvement?
I apologize for all the questions. I'm totally at a loss.
Unfortunately, I do not have any way to weigh her & I'm doing the best with what I have available.
I just syringe fed 45mL of electrolyte water over about a one hour time period with massage in between. I can hear gastric juices gurgling.
So I can offer her feed? What consistency is...
I realized I did not say anything about her laying -
She has not laid since this all started. I treated for gapeworm & then realized that her crop was doughy. So it has been quite some time since she laid. But again, she had just started laying.
I'm just really concerned about feeding...
I dosed directly into her mouth, not with any kind of medicated feed. I used a pea sized amount of Safeguard equine wormer.
She is about a year old & had just started laying. Abdomen is not distended or bloated. I checked her vent & there is no egg.
Stools appear normal. Maybe one...
I have been following guidelines for treating doughy crop.
I have dewormed with Flubendazole to make sure there is no underlying worm infestation. (I now suspect possibly gapeworm, as I now have another hen showing symptoms. *She is ok & I caught it day 1. Now everyone is being wormed.*)...