begging for help... pullet dying - update: she is gone :-(((((

[ZooMummzy]

I agree with the vitamins. When I have problems like this with my silkies it is the first thing I try.

I give mine a squirt of vitamin B, 2 Vitamin E capsules (squeeze into their beaks) or a healthy squirt of the liquid if you can get it and a tiny bit broken off of a selenium tablet. The vitamin E is for muscular issues and the selenium helps them absorb the vitamin E. I bought all these things at my local grocery store.

It's not crookneck, but this is the site I got the combination from http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article/Crookneck/Crookneck.html I do not use prednisone. I researched and it seems to be the recommended and best treatment for vitamin deficient issues of any kind and it certainly doesn't hurt them. I've used it several times with great success.

 

[technodoll]

How much should I give her?

Half a tablet?

Are B vitamins water soluble?

I don't want to overdose her on B vitamins and tax her organs, she's in distress enough as it is...

Thank you!!

Edited to add:

I have this sitting on my counter, should I give her a mega-dose with her feedings?

http://www.drugs.com/vet/poul-vite-can.html

I also have this that I have been sprinkling on her food, which is better?

http://www.drugs.com/vet/super-booster-can.html

 

[easttxchick]

This is from the site ZooMummzy recommended. Like she said, ignore the prednisone-it says crook neck, but again, as she said, ignore that.

For the first week I give
Once a day
About 1/4 piece of human vitamin B complex pill or a squirt of human B liquid vitamins
:25 micrograms selenium
Twice a day
2.5 mg of prednisone
400 IU of vitamin E
For the second week I give
Once a day
2.5 mg of prednisone
400 IU of vitamin E
About 1/4 piece of human vitamin B complex pill or a squirt of human B liquid vitamins
Every other day
:25 micrograms selenium
For the third and following weeks I give
Once a day
2.5 mg of prednisone - less and less each day - none after third week
400 IU of vitamin E
A piece of human vitamin B complex pill or a squirt of human liquid vitamins
Once a week
:25 micrograms selenium

 

[technodoll]

Quote:
Thank you so much for this information - i feel better armed now and will go shop for these vitamins tomorrow (I have no car today).

In the meantime I will keep giving her Poly-vi-sol drops, is that ok?

So you guys think it's just a general vitamin deficiency, and she can pull out of it??

 

[easttxchick]

I absolutely would continue the PolyViSol.
If her problem is a vitamin deficiency, she should be OK-poor thing.
Keep us posted.

 

[technodoll]

Is it a bad sign that her crop is hardly emptying at all, and that her poops contain more and more urates?

She's only had most of a cooked silkie egg today, some Poly-vi-sol and some fortified water (in 3 meals) yet her crop seems full all the time.

I'm losing her, aren't I?

 

[easttxchick]

I'm no expert, technodoll, but could it be that there are more urates in her poo because she isn't intaking as many solids as normal and most of what she is ingesting are fluids?
I certainly hope you aren't losing her-she's adorable.

 

[technodoll]

I've been massaging her crop and it feels like it's full of pebbles - could this be the cause of all of this?

It's not distended and doesn't feel impacted, just full of rocks.

I don't know how I could have missed this, I felt her crop before bringing her in the house 4 days ago and it was flat and empty, unless I didn't feel it right -

I will syringe some olive oil in her gullet tonight and keep massaging, and see how that goes...

She is so fighting it, poor girl.

 

[technodoll]

At 5:30 today Sookie passed away, taken by convulsions and what appears like suffocating to death.

She died in front of my eyes and there was nothing I could do to save her.

I feel as if I've been stabbed in the heart by a giant hot poker, I cannot stop crying - the grief is overwhelming.

I loved her so much, she wasn't just a chicken - she was part of my life.

I tried so hard to save her but failed.

I'm sorry my little angel, so very sorry...

Why did you die?

My heart is broken in a million bits, I am drained of tears but yet they still come in waves.

RIP sweet Sookie, mommy will always love you... always.

 

[Lesa]

So sorry you lost your darling chicken... You did everything you could. I know it is frustrating not to be able to cure her... Hang in there.