Hi everyone,
I would desperately love some help with treating my sweet girls - any advice would be appreciated!
My 2 yo silkie bantam was broody and when I brought her inside to break her noticed that she was quite ill. Below are the symptoms she had and the treatment I have done because I couldn’t get to a vet for a few days. I’m devastated because 2 days prior she came out of the nest to sit on my lap and seemed in fantastic health (she did a very normal looking poo right next to me and nothing seemed wrong).
- Smelly face and visible difficulty breathing: Amoxyclav tabled half tab every 12 hours. No discharge was visible from the nose or eyes and no rattle when breathing.
-Bright green sticky poop: I thought it may be coccidiosis secondary to the resp Infection so baycox for 2 days 0.36ml. Been raining a lot so can’t rule it out, sand run and free ranging time.
- oozing fowl pox lesions on face and wattles - Tricin gram +- antibiotic cream - healed overnight (mosquitos have been horrendous here).
- Pendulous crop - she is in a crop bra
There was no real improvement over 2 days before I could get her to the avian vet although she did stop standing in the hunched way you see with coccidiosis infections. Her poops are now small and green with bright yellow urates. She is also walking very slowly and choosing to sit down all the time - her skin is completely black so I can’t see if her comb is turning purple or not. She eats very little and I am hand feeding her their pellets crushed and wet and egg yolks. She also has electrolytes in the water.
The vet confirmed fowl pox lesions, no oocysts (already treated) and a lower respiratory infection. They were happy with the medication i was already giving her so gave me some more although they wanted to admit her into hospital. We are not in a financial position at the moment to spend thousands on hospital care for her so I had to decline and pray i could treat it at home. She has also been put on Sporanox as she had a yeast infection starting from the antibiotics. She has been in a hospital pen ontop of the fridges with a heat lamp since she came into the house a few days ago.
She had very limited energy and if she flaps her wings she needs time to catch her breath. The poor thing isn’t suffering but is struggling. I have read that bright yellow urates are a sign of organ failure so I am guessing her liveris struggling. She is not an overweight bird
My question is have any of you had to deal with something like this before? Is there anything else I can do to help her recovery? Is there something that the vet could of missed? Apologies for typos and formatting - I’m on mobile and it’s not cooperating for me.
Thank you
I would desperately love some help with treating my sweet girls - any advice would be appreciated!
My 2 yo silkie bantam was broody and when I brought her inside to break her noticed that she was quite ill. Below are the symptoms she had and the treatment I have done because I couldn’t get to a vet for a few days. I’m devastated because 2 days prior she came out of the nest to sit on my lap and seemed in fantastic health (she did a very normal looking poo right next to me and nothing seemed wrong).
- Smelly face and visible difficulty breathing: Amoxyclav tabled half tab every 12 hours. No discharge was visible from the nose or eyes and no rattle when breathing.
-Bright green sticky poop: I thought it may be coccidiosis secondary to the resp Infection so baycox for 2 days 0.36ml. Been raining a lot so can’t rule it out, sand run and free ranging time.
- oozing fowl pox lesions on face and wattles - Tricin gram +- antibiotic cream - healed overnight (mosquitos have been horrendous here).
- Pendulous crop - she is in a crop bra
There was no real improvement over 2 days before I could get her to the avian vet although she did stop standing in the hunched way you see with coccidiosis infections. Her poops are now small and green with bright yellow urates. She is also walking very slowly and choosing to sit down all the time - her skin is completely black so I can’t see if her comb is turning purple or not. She eats very little and I am hand feeding her their pellets crushed and wet and egg yolks. She also has electrolytes in the water.
The vet confirmed fowl pox lesions, no oocysts (already treated) and a lower respiratory infection. They were happy with the medication i was already giving her so gave me some more although they wanted to admit her into hospital. We are not in a financial position at the moment to spend thousands on hospital care for her so I had to decline and pray i could treat it at home. She has also been put on Sporanox as she had a yeast infection starting from the antibiotics. She has been in a hospital pen ontop of the fridges with a heat lamp since she came into the house a few days ago.
She had very limited energy and if she flaps her wings she needs time to catch her breath. The poor thing isn’t suffering but is struggling. I have read that bright yellow urates are a sign of organ failure so I am guessing her liveris struggling. She is not an overweight bird
My question is have any of you had to deal with something like this before? Is there anything else I can do to help her recovery? Is there something that the vet could of missed? Apologies for typos and formatting - I’m on mobile and it’s not cooperating for me.
Thank you
