Chicken pecked badly, need advice!

[SmiYa0126]

@KRack you can upload it to you tube and link it here. Could it be because the food is liquidy? I can hear clicking and gurgling noises when my cockerel drinks water.

 

[KRack]

Ok, I’ll try that. I don’t have an account, not sure I want to make one lol.

Can I use the safeguard paste instead of the liquid when I deworm? My local stores only have the goat paste.

 

[KRack]

Nevermind, I ordered the liquid kind online!

 

[SmiYa0126]

You can use the goat paste

 

[KRack]

When it comes time to deworm her, what dose of the liquid goat safeguard should I give her? She's still around 2.5 lbs because of the roller coaster ride her diet has been. She's eating much better now that I'm doing the food/water balls!

I gave her the correct dose of my fenbendazole capsules, one time, and saw at least one round worm, but she seemed a little overwhelemd by the antibiotic and dewormer combined. So I've only been using the antibiotic since.

I'll wait a bit to deworm her probably, but she's soo thin, I just want to make sure that's not the reason. Does anyone have another idea of why she could be so thin? If there wasn't enough food available (I think there was, but not sure), could she have been last in the pecking order and not gotten any? That probably sounds like a silly question, but it's the only other thing I came up with.

 

[Eggcessive]

Either paste or liquid, fenbendazole 10% dosage is 1/4 ml per pound of weight given orally for 5 consecutive days for a variety of worms, or once and repeated in 10 days for only round worms.

 

[KRack]

Either paste or liquid, fenbendazole 10% dosage is 1/4 ml per pound of weight given orally for 5 consecutive days for a variety of worms, or once and repeated in 10 days for only round worms.

Thank you!

 

[KRack]

This chicken had one eye that worked, one that did not. The one that did not was always closed, the one that did work was open for a while. Since her skin has started to grow back, her eye that does work has been closed. So she’s basically blind. I can’t tell if it’s sealing closed through the healing process, and I haven’t messed with it. Thoughts/advice?

 

[KRack]

That’s a picture of her eye that did/does work, but is now constantly closed.

 

[Eggcessive]

Can you try to clean any mucus or film off the eye that does work? Saline and some probing with your fingers or a QTip may help. It may be sealed or stuck closed with secretions.