The lab at UC Davis sent me the reports. I'm posting this here in case it may help someone in the future. The initial exam results were: "Thin body condition...Marek's disease is what I am suspecting and the lesions in the skin, liver, and kidney could be due to this." In the final report, after...
The UC Davis CA Animal Health & Food Safety Lab website was down yesterday. I just accessed the form and hope to drive her there tomorrow for necropsy. I'll update once I get the results.
6BeachChicks & Wyorp Rock,
Thank you for your support. At least I didn't immediately put them with my old hen. Quarantining makes sense. It was 30 days today.
Hi FFH2,
Thanks for responding. There wasn't a bad smell with the scabs when I worked on them. The skin was more firm than spongy. I found new lesions on her side this morning. None on the wings.
I hope this wasn't Marek's.
Thank you for the details on dosing, especially on alternatives to pilling. Good to know. I hunted on the internet last night for mg/kg and came up with something similar. I prepped capsules for this morning, but unfortunately, she passed away. There's an additional photo below.
Hi azygous,
Thank you for the feedback!
I do have Fish Mox. If she were your bird, what would you dose for a 1 lb, 4 oz chick? How many times a day would you give it to her and for how long? Does she need to have a certain amount of water intake with it? It's been so long since I've pilled a...
Thank you for tagging other members! The more opinions on this, the better.
From what I understand, Chloe was on medicated chick feed before I bought her. She was in an outdoor environment, so the possibility of exposure was there in order for the feed to be protective. I used to have Corid, but...
Pics are now from my phone with more pixels. (Yay, poop details. ;)) This was drop shipped overnight. A lot more urates. The newspaper was wet with water from Chloe's bowl.
This morning she produced this one.
Chloe accepted ~12ml of electrolyte water from a dropper today. She liked the...
Hi Wyorp Rock,
Thank you for your detailed reply! Sorry for the delayed response. I had to go to several locations to replenish the expired parts of my chicken 1st aid kit. The store shelves are getting thinner. I wasn't able to get chlorhexidine, but picked up the last Vetericyn+.
Today...
I'm using the format that was posted (I think) on this site. Thank you in advance for any advice. Here goes...
1) What type of bird, age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others?)
Chloe is a Black Australorp, about 3 ½ months old. She weighs 1 lb, 4 oz...