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So sorry for your loss. If you want to send her off for a necropsy let me know and I can get you info on how to do that, but I also understand that many people, myself included, would rather pick a nice spot in the garden and bury or beloved pets. RIP, Velma. -Kathy

If she can toloerate it, increase the amounts you're tubing. My 2kg RIR hen can tolerate 120-180ml twice a day, my 380 gram chick gets 30ml twice a day. -Kathy

What does her poop look like?

I found a thread about the dosage for Baytril. Kathy has some info on dosage. Hope this helps. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/832229/vet-prescirbed-baytril-15mg-12-hrs-does-this-do-the-same-job-as-tylan Medication can stay in their systems quite a few days later, i am thinking maybe up to a...

In almost of my blackhead birds I have seen improvement by day 3 of metronidazole, but there have been a few that had secondary e. Coli infections that I treated with Baytril or Clavamox, and the most recent one also had a yeast infection that I'm still treating. Could we get a list of all of...

How is she this morning? -Kathy

Keep in mind that I have 40 peafowl, 5 turkeys and a couple hundred chickens and of all those in the last three years I have had to treat just one chicken, but 20 or more peafowl/turkeys and all but one of the chicken necropsies have shown no obvious evidence of histomoniasis or cecal worms...

OMG, I wish I hadn't started looking, now I found this, lol. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/1171270/related/ -Kathy

Here is some stuff that I just found: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/6743169/related/ -Kathy

Welcome to team tube feeding, lol.

How did the tube feeding go? -Kathy

Culling is a viable option, but it's not what I would do as I don't believe everything has been done yet. If she were mine she would get weighed daily, have 100% of poop inspected, get metronidazole, fenbendazole and another antibiotic like Baytril. She would also get fluids via the tube, then...

The poop in the first picture was actually a pale yellow, not white, camera effect I guess... If you're curious that's one that I did a necropsy on and there are more pictures and info here...

Some people use aquarium air tubing instead of a catheter, you just need to hold a lighter to the end and melt it a little so that it's smooth. -Kathy

I can't remember if I posted any tube feeding info or not, but if she isn't drinking she needs to have her hydration corrected. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/722041/how-to-t-feed-a-sick-chicken-and-give-subcutaneous-fluid#post_9910754...

FWIW, all but one or two of the blackhead necropsies I have seen or read about have also had secondary e. Coli infections. This is a link to a peafowl necropsy that I did in October...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Warning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone just posted that the API General Cure that was at their pet store did not have metronidazole in it, it had something else, so check the ingedients to verify that it has 250mg metronidazole. The API General Cure is has 250mg metronidazole and...

It's okay to use Safeguard now.

Yes, that worm could be the source of all problems... If your bird has blackhead it very possible that is has one or more secondary infection(s) like e.coli, yeast, coccidiosis. Treatment for blackhead is metronidazole, no less than 30mg/kg once a day for five days, but I have heard of vets...

He didn't have a scope or way to do a gram stain? -Kathy