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  1. luvs2ride1979

    Injured Chicken, not walking! UPDATE: Standing better, but now fever?

    Thanks StCroix. She did great with her bath last night! She just stood quietly in the sink fully of soapy water and tolerated the scrubbing well. She's up and pecking around this morning.
  2. luvs2ride1979

    Injured Chicken, not walking! UPDATE: Standing better, but now fever?

    Thanks BigCreek. If she doesn't improve on the LA-200, I'll call my horse vet and see if he can get that for me. Tonight she's doing much better. She drank water and ate the dry chicken mix on her own. I bathed her and really scrubbed her wounds. Two of the puncture wounds have totally...
  3. luvs2ride1979

    Injured Chicken, not walking! UPDATE: Standing better, but now fever?

    Well, she's doing better last night. She won't eat the special food, but I could only find orange flavored cod liver oil, so I'm gong to make more today with fish oil pills I have for myself. It appeared she ate some of the mash on her own yesterday and I was able to get her to drink using a...
  4. luvs2ride1979

    Injured Chicken, not walking! UPDATE: Standing better, but now fever?

    The Ricket's diet is just a "sick bird" diet with lots of protein and vitamins. Here's the Ricket's diet: This amount feeds one bird. Each serving consists of: ½ to 1 x cooked egg yolk… crumbled into mixture 1 small drizzle of honey 2 tablespoons natural yoghurt - no sugar 2 to 4...
  5. luvs2ride1979

    Injured Chicken, not walking! UPDATE: Standing better, but now fever?

    I went ahead and gave her 1/3rd CC of LA-200 antibiotic orally today. I'm going to make up the Ricket's diet for her and see if that helps. None of my other birds are sick that I can tell. Everyone is eating and drinking fine, behavior is normal. This girl wasn't sick before this. She...
  6. luvs2ride1979

    Injured Chicken, not walking! UPDATE: Standing better, but now fever?

    My girls got attacked by dogs last week. See the thread for background: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=614328 So, the surviving injured chicken is not doing well. She can't really walk. She can stand and will stagger a step or two, then falls over. Her feet will...
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