Calcium bolus please HELP

[Eggcessive]

If this happened to my hen, I would just get her drinking often, mix some watery feed and a little egg, and give her some mineral oil in the food, or chilled coconut oil to peck at. Tube feed her fluids if she is not taking them. If she won’t eat, get her pecking at the chilled coconut oil about 2 tsp twice a day. Keep her separated so that you can see her droppings. How does her crop feel? Check it first thing in the morning to see if it is emptying. Let us know how she gets along.

 

[Debbie292d]

I'm going to tag @TwoCrows, a crop guru, to see if this product she recommends for sour crop would do any good for you or if she has any other ideas. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/howdy-byc.1628559/post-27813675

Edit: It's her birthday today so she may be out celebrating and not on BYC.

 

[Joyce_Turner]

Ok update to this, the little girls mother came to me and said they had also given my hen a huge dose of mangesium. Which that would explain why she is unsteady and quick breathing.. magnesium is pretty much just a straight up poison in huge doses. So we need to anatagonize that, get calcium back in as much as that doesnt make sense after such a huge hit, but mag would have locked it up and she would have pooped it out). Transport it with K2. That will have to do until i can get this poor thing chelated.

 

[Joyce_Turner]

I got some bloods back her calcium is high normal, so yeah poop and magnesium blocked the rest. high normal? like 1.16. At 12ooo mg she should be dead., How much mag did these kids give her for crying out loud??? What do i do to antagonize Magnesium? Ringers solution ? but i am nowhere near anything that will have it...

 

[Joyce_Turner]

Is it a 1/2 tspn epsom salt to one cup warm water for lavage in case of impacted crop please? Anyone?

 

[Eggcessive]

Epsom salts flush is 1 tsp per 1/2 cup water or 3 tsp per 1.5 cups of water.

 

[tlcmurphy]

I’m very sorry about your girl, I have no experience with any of this but hope the Educators can help her.

I have to ask, WTH is wrong with your neighbors that their kids would do this??! It just blows my mind. I hope she will be OK.

 

[Eggcessive]

Let us know how she gets along. I hope that she passes some droppings. Calcium can affect the kidneys, so I hope this doesn’t hurt her.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Yeah I'm wondering this too. How old are these children and why do they have access to calcium pills and magnesium? How did they get this into your hen? It's not that easy for me to get a single calcium tablet into one of my hens, much less this quantity! Why aren't they giving the chicken m&m's or grapes like normal kids? Something wrong here.

 

[Joyce_Turner]

She is definitely passing droppings. But i just read around and it looks like magnesium also has a way of binding up calcium and potassium so it looks good on blood test results, but it is essentially useless. I am giving her little doses of calcium, not the kind from a 6year old girl's hand, so calcium should be on board. BUT i did not supplement potassium, i had no ideas magnesium could bind it. Magnesium also prepares potassium to go out excreted. I m thinking now that this might be a case not so much of poisonoing but of potassium being stolen from her.

she is weak, doest want to eat, finds it hard to co-ordinate leg muscles to walk or turn feels pain when she turns, and is now twitching. if that isn't potassium deficiency, I'm not here.

I will keep interested people posted and thank you to everyone who was kind and giving of their time to me here. She's my number one girl so i aint losing her now. Thank you for all the advice you have given.