16-week-old pullet: pale, lethargic, but no other symptoms?

[jquinby]

Well, a final update. I spoke a little too soon after posting earlier...she declined rapidly as the day progressed. I offered a yogurt/egg/feed mash which she wouldn't touch, manually gave water via a syringe to her beak (she took a very little), but it was pretty clear over the last couple of hours that she was simply not going to make it. I ended up putting her down.

A lesson or two learned: the signs of her not eating should have been clearer to me - she had the characteristic bright green poop but I didn't make the connection fast enough. I should have kept her quarantined longer than I did - when things looked a little better, and the rest of the flock was under treatment, I returned her to the coop/run (but kept her in the run when the others were allowed out to forage) hoping that the activity would pep her up a little. I would have been able to keep a better eye on her food/water intake and output than I did.

So someone else - myself include - can hopefully learn from my mistakes. Thanks again for the quick assistance. Next time I'll try to share some happy news.

 

[casportpony]

So sorry for your loss.

-Kathy

 

[Eggcessive]

So sorry for your loss. Do you think you could do a necropsy to look at her intestines for bleeding inside? I would understand if you couldn't do it?

 

[jquinby]

We thought about a necropsy, but neither of us are up for it. I never noticed any blood in the stool, for whatever that's worth. When I noticed the green stool I figured it was had something to do with the Corid.

The head-scratcher for me is that she presented no other symptoms for any of the other common ailments. And that the other 7 are going like gangbusters just compounds our puzzlement.

 

[casportpony]

Green stool usually means starvation. Curiously, does her belly look dark or bruised?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I think necropsies are free in your State:
http://www.tn.gov/agriculture/regulatory/kord.shtml

-Kathy

 

[jquinby]

I didn't look, and have already buried her. Would the bruising be consistent with cocci?

 

[casportpony]

I didn't look, and have already buried her. Would the bruising be consistent with cocci?

I'm not sure, it's just something I noticed in a few chicks here. Most recovered with Corid, a couple died and one got better after I gave it Baytril. The fact that it got better says that it probably had a bacterial infection, but it could have had both.

-Kathy

 

[BantamLover21]

I'm sorry for your loss.