Chicken in dire need, tried almost everything

[heidiAnnP]

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PLease see video of my sick chicken. She is in dire need of help, she went like this overnight (small cough over th elast few days). I have given antibiotics and corid over the last week, ivermectin this morning and it still is getting worse, any ideas? I also give garlic oil, Apple Cider Vinegar, colloidal silver and VetRX.

 

[azygous]

Please post your video to You Tube, copy the URL and paste that here. The video will embed and we will be able to view it without messing with Facebook, which some of us are unwilling to engage with.

What antibiotic have you been giving and what strength is it? How old is the hen? Has she had egg quality issues? When was her last egg?

What is your location/climate/weather? (Location gives us important clues about local hazards and current avian diseases, and resources.)

Is she losing weight? Is she eating and drinking on her own? Can she stand and walk without losing her balance?

 

[heidiAnnP]

She is gasping for air rattling in her throat, she is not laying yet (only 4 mos old), I am in Coastal South Carolina, I have been giving Doxycycline 20% over the last 5 days in the water for all my flock due to slight coughing with other chickens. She cannot eat or drink, I am syringing fluids. I am not sure she is going to make it much longer

 

[azygous]

Thank you. Your chicken needs emergency care to stop her losing ground. Do you feel comfortable tube feeding if I instruct you?

You would need a large capacity oral syringe that can hold at least an eighth of a cup of liquid and some plastic oxygen or aquarium tubing, about ten inches long. Or you can go to your nearest vet and ask them to sell you a feeding kit for a small animal for a few dollars.

Then you will mix up a half a cup of water with half a teaspoon of sugar and some poultry vitamins such as Nutri-drench. This would be tubed into her twice a day today and tomorrow. She is likely starving and dehydrated with low glucose and she risks organ shutdown unless you intervene.

You insert the tubing where this photo shows the syringe going into the esophagus. If she coughs or gags, withdraw the tube and try again until it smoothly goes into the crop.

 

[heidiAnnP]

I believe I have most of that, I will attempt to syringe tube her food and vitamins along with glucose.

 

[heidiAnnP]

What do you think she has? Pneumonia?

 

[azygous]

From the symptoms, she may have an upper respiratory infection plus dehydration and starvation. Beyond that, we can't diagnose chickens. We treat the obvious symptoms and base a tentative diagnosis on how the chicken responds.