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When a chicken receives fluids, the airway shuts so the liquid or food flows down the esophagus. By dribbling fluid on the right side of the beak, the chicken sucks it in (yes chickens can slurp like we do) and the airway closes automatically so they don't inhale the fluid. Chickens have a...

But why go to all that trouble when all you need to do is pry open her beak and shove the doxy capsule in? One and done.

When giving fluids, it's important to insert the delivery device, whether a tube or oral syringe, into the right side of the beak, then into the esophagus that is located on the right side of the throat, avoiding the airway in the center of the throat behind the tongue. You can administer the...

That is a very weak antibiotic, more for respiratory illness.

Yes, taking the hen to the walk-in clinic is a good idea. Tell them you need ten days of amoxicillin for her. Or if they have something stronger, get that. They don't need to examine the hen, tell them. She is suffering from infection, and she isn't eating enough for the liver to have anything...

It's possible that your hen is dying from infection. Puncture wounds almost immediately start to grow bacteria as it's impossible to wash a deep wound. Raccoons have bacteria laden mouths and they almost always bite deeply. Such a wound has to be treated immediately with an oral antibiotic or...

I suggest you go back to page one of your thread and re-read all of the responses in case you may have missed a few. From where I'm standing, you've received a heck of a lot of good advice, plenty that you have several options for treating your hen. You haven't given us your location, usually...

Most of us here are going to need to resort to other means of healing than antibiotics, it appears. After all, it's really the immune system that is responsible for most of the healing. The antibiotic is only to target the bacterium and take shots at it, reducing the numbers so the immune system...

I did some online crawling and found that no fish antibiotics are available, and Midland the main supplier is no longer producing them. It appears that after threatening to curtail these over-the-counter meds for two decades, the US government is finally cracking down on outlets selling them, as...

If you or relatives and friends have any leftover people prescriptions, those work for chickens. Just find them and tell us what they are and what strength and we can help figure out the dosage.

The only way to determine if this is a vitamin B deficiency is to treat her for three or four weeks with B-complex. You need vitamin B 2, 6, and 12, so a B-complex is the best way to handle it. A tablet a day directly into the beak. If she continues to deteriorate in spite of the B-complex...