Hi,
I live in Thailand, so would very much appreciate everyone's advice please on what could possibly be wrong with my chicken.
She is about 9 months old. She's been laying very regularly up until about 3-4 days ago. The last couple of days there have been no eggs from her.
Yesterday she seemed perfectly fine - eating, drinking, walking around and free-ranging with the others.
This morning she wasn't able to stand up, and when she tried to get up all she could manage was to kinda crawl out while still sitting down. She was somewhat alert at this stage. I tried to get her to stand and she simply could not. She would not eat or drink. She quickly became very sleepy, drooping her head.
I quickly rushed her off to the vet. They gave her an antibiotic injection, steriod injection to ward off stress and to bring down her very high fever, put her on an IV, checked her poop sample - which came back normal, also gave her an injection to help her bring up fluid from her lungs (she was struggling to breath at this point and was lurching forward trying to expel fluid!). She was also put on oxygen. We were at the vets for about an hour. At the end of this time, her breathing, while still heaving, was no longer noisy. The vet did say though that on listening with a stethoscope that she still had some fluid there. They took some blood samples to test for various things.
I left her at the vets. That was now 5 hours ago. I've just rung to check on her and have been told there is no improvement. Her skin color is pinky/yellow and she is still very sleepy.
PLEASE HELP!! I love my chickens and want as much advice as I can lay my hands on.
Any suggestions as to what this might be? It has come on extremely suddenly. I initially wondered about botulism and queried this with the vet, but she doesn't know what this is!
What other things should we be looking at??
I did notice last night when I went to change the water in the coop that it stank very badly. I cleaned it out and replaced with fresh water mixed with EM. The other waterer in the coop has ACV/water. This is the combination I always have available for the chickens inside the coop. Outside, their waterer has electrolytes/vitamins/water.
The only other thing of note is over the last couple of days my husband and I have been digging new vege gardens. While digging we found lots of (we think) locust larvae. We gave these to the chickens to eat. Was this a mistake?
All thoughts/opinions very much appreaciated.
Many thanks chicken family!
~ Angela
Edited: Just to add that no other chickens are displaying any symptoms, my chickens are not vaccinated, and we have a big mosquito problem here at the moment. It's currently the wet season in Thailand.
I live in Thailand, so would very much appreciate everyone's advice please on what could possibly be wrong with my chicken.
She is about 9 months old. She's been laying very regularly up until about 3-4 days ago. The last couple of days there have been no eggs from her.
Yesterday she seemed perfectly fine - eating, drinking, walking around and free-ranging with the others.
This morning she wasn't able to stand up, and when she tried to get up all she could manage was to kinda crawl out while still sitting down. She was somewhat alert at this stage. I tried to get her to stand and she simply could not. She would not eat or drink. She quickly became very sleepy, drooping her head.
I quickly rushed her off to the vet. They gave her an antibiotic injection, steriod injection to ward off stress and to bring down her very high fever, put her on an IV, checked her poop sample - which came back normal, also gave her an injection to help her bring up fluid from her lungs (she was struggling to breath at this point and was lurching forward trying to expel fluid!). She was also put on oxygen. We were at the vets for about an hour. At the end of this time, her breathing, while still heaving, was no longer noisy. The vet did say though that on listening with a stethoscope that she still had some fluid there. They took some blood samples to test for various things.
I left her at the vets. That was now 5 hours ago. I've just rung to check on her and have been told there is no improvement. Her skin color is pinky/yellow and she is still very sleepy.
PLEASE HELP!! I love my chickens and want as much advice as I can lay my hands on.
Any suggestions as to what this might be? It has come on extremely suddenly. I initially wondered about botulism and queried this with the vet, but she doesn't know what this is!
What other things should we be looking at??
I did notice last night when I went to change the water in the coop that it stank very badly. I cleaned it out and replaced with fresh water mixed with EM. The other waterer in the coop has ACV/water. This is the combination I always have available for the chickens inside the coop. Outside, their waterer has electrolytes/vitamins/water.
The only other thing of note is over the last couple of days my husband and I have been digging new vege gardens. While digging we found lots of (we think) locust larvae. We gave these to the chickens to eat. Was this a mistake?
All thoughts/opinions very much appreaciated.
Many thanks chicken family!
~ Angela
Edited: Just to add that no other chickens are displaying any symptoms, my chickens are not vaccinated, and we have a big mosquito problem here at the moment. It's currently the wet season in Thailand.
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