Please could someone offer some medical advice on our chicken whose condition is described as beneath.
On the 07.07.22 our chicken ( a 2.5 year old ex battery hen named Poly) was diagnosed with egg peritonitis. She weighed 2.3Kg and after the vet drained the abdomen of 200ml fluid she weighed 2.1kg. The vet took a scan which didn't reveal any egg shell but the fluid drained off was milky and so the vet prescribed a 5 day course of anti biotic (6 days if you include the initial injection). The anti biotics finished on 12th July - poly's temperature is now normal and she shows no signs of having any further fluid retention/peritonitis.
On the 13th July Poly stopped eating - we gave her egg yolk by syringe twice daily. She lost a lot of weight with a boney rib cage resulting.
On the 15th July Poly became reluctant to stand or walk and was still not eating - later that day we started Poly on poultry power drops (a multi vitamin drench 2ml administered daily for upto 5 days). A few hours later Poly started eating and has now regained her appetite - she is eating scrambled egg, grated cheese and mini sausages plus bits of corn and grit about 5 times per day and drinking from small saucers (into which we have put Kali Phos - homeopathic remedy that I understand is good to prevent EPS).
However Poly is still not walking - she stands up, stretches and then lays back down. We are massaging her legs a few times each day.
Do any members have any suggestions on what we can try next to get Poly back on her feet.
On the 07.07.22 our chicken ( a 2.5 year old ex battery hen named Poly) was diagnosed with egg peritonitis. She weighed 2.3Kg and after the vet drained the abdomen of 200ml fluid she weighed 2.1kg. The vet took a scan which didn't reveal any egg shell but the fluid drained off was milky and so the vet prescribed a 5 day course of anti biotic (6 days if you include the initial injection). The anti biotics finished on 12th July - poly's temperature is now normal and she shows no signs of having any further fluid retention/peritonitis.
On the 13th July Poly stopped eating - we gave her egg yolk by syringe twice daily. She lost a lot of weight with a boney rib cage resulting.
On the 15th July Poly became reluctant to stand or walk and was still not eating - later that day we started Poly on poultry power drops (a multi vitamin drench 2ml administered daily for upto 5 days). A few hours later Poly started eating and has now regained her appetite - she is eating scrambled egg, grated cheese and mini sausages plus bits of corn and grit about 5 times per day and drinking from small saucers (into which we have put Kali Phos - homeopathic remedy that I understand is good to prevent EPS).
However Poly is still not walking - she stands up, stretches and then lays back down. We are massaging her legs a few times each day.
Do any members have any suggestions on what we can try next to get Poly back on her feet.
