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Thank you for posting the info from the state vet. I always think that getting day old chicks from a good hatchery is the best way to insure that they will have a good start in life. It is true that MyPetChickens is not a hatchery, but sources chicks from hatcheries around the country. Meyer...

I am really so sorry that she has not gotten better. Hugs.

Don’t overdo the the cottage cheese or the rice, jusst use either one and a little bit. They can plug her up if too much is used.

If you are using ProBios, then I would stop the yogurt. Too much yogurt may cause diarrhea. Dawg53 sometimes recommends cooked rice and buttermilk for diarrhea, but not too much since too much dairy can cause more diarrhea. Rice (cooked only in chickens,) and cottage cheese will help firm up poops.

Is there still the yellow egg-like material in the droppings, or are they just runny? I haven’t used Baytril, but most antibiotics can cause diarrhea. Hopefully, it will go away after the end of the antibiotics. I use plain Chobani yogurt-1 tsp per chicken for probiotics. Some use Probios...

It’s good that she is eating. Everyone says that baytril tastes bad, and why most do not give it in the water. Glad that you got the medicine started.

That is correct and is 1/4 ml in other words. Sorry for all of the confusion.

So is 0.25 ml twice a day the correct dosage?

Well that is why I asked because my math is the worst. So a 5 pound bird should receive about 5 mg per pound or 25 mg twice per day. Would that be 0.25 mg twice a day?

Five pounds I believe.

That is the correct dosage 5 mg per 5 pounds twice a day. The medicine is 100 ml per 1 ml, so 0.05 ml is the dosage. I would draw that up, and then draw up a little bit (maybe 1/4 to 1/2 ml) of water to make sure all comes out of the syringe when you give it to her. If anyone sees an error...

Most chickens enjoy being with the others even when they are ill, but they will sometimes go off by themselves or hide. They tend to eat better when with the others, so I usually leave mine out in the coop. Sometimes I will separate in a dog crate in the coop, just so they have access to their...

Yes, I am sorry—enrofloxacin is Baytril. Dosage for a chicken is 10 mg per kg (each 2.2 pounds) given twice a day for 5 days. So close to 5 mg orally twice a day. Each ml of that product is 100mg, so 5 mg is 0.05 ml, so you will need a 1 ml syringe, to give 1/2 of 1/10 th of an ml. Does that...

My goodness that is expensive, and I would look into the state poultry lab as well. @casportpony has had gram stains done before, and she lives in California where it seems things like lab work and necropsies are less expensive. Sometimes we just go ahead and treat for a suspected illness...

Yes that sounds like you have a good understanding. I really doubt that you are seeing blackhead, but it is one of those things that can cause bright yellow droppings, and I just wanted to nention it. Since the yellow was in the midst of green droppings, I would just guess that it is more like...

Gram stains identify bacteria, such as a coccus or bacillus, but not the specific bacteria. A culture might be done to identify a particular bacteria. Most vets do not do gram stains or cultures without a good reason. Most just do fecal floats for worms and parasites. Turkeys are at risk of...

Blackhead or histomoniasis is more of a turkey disease according to many sources on poultry diseases. One member says that she has had a confirmed case in a chicken, but I would look more at the yellow being egg matter or possible E.coli. E.coli is a bacteria found in droppings and all over the...

I would be concerned about that bright yellow material in the dropping. Does it look like cooked egg matter? Sometimes that kind of dropping can indicate egg matter from internal laying, E.coli infection, and in rarer cases that is seen in blackhead disease, more a disease of turkeys, but rare...