Chicken pecked badly, need advice!

[casportpony]

How is she doing? Are you weighing her daily?

 

[KRack]

How is she doing? Are you weighing her daily?

She was doing really well. Eating and drinking well, healing well, even gaining weight slowly. Yesterday she started to decline and today she was even worse. Still trying to eat and drink, but clearly struggling to breathe and therefore, tired. Shaking her head a lot and scratching at her throat a ton as well today.

She’s such a little fighter, I’m praying she makes it through all this and gets the chance at a quality life with lots of love.

 

[casportpony]

Do you have any antibiotics? Animal or human?

 

[KRack]

Do you have any antibiotics? Animal or human?

I don’t, no.

 

[casportpony]

Do you have her inside in a warm room?

 

[KRack]

Do you have her inside in a warm room?

I do. I clean her wounds and reapply medicine twice a day, and offer her wet food and assistance in drinking (her one eye is definitely blind, but she’s trying to use the other) every couple of hours.

 

[casportpony]

How would you feel about learning to tube feed?

 

[KRack]

How would you feel about learning to tube feed?

Really anxious, but if she started refusing all together, I’d be willing to learn and try it.

 

[KRack]

How would you feel about learning to tube feed?

Found this antibiotic in the fridge..

Can/should I give her some?

 

[SmiYa0126]

@KRack yes, that will work! See if she'll take it on a piece of bread, soak in the dose and put the chunks into her beak.