Chicken with diarrhea for weeks

[lmwheeler]

one of my chickens has had very watery drippings for a few weeks. She is eating, drinking, foraging and socializing normally. I started giving her Safeguard fenbendazole on January 1st. Her droppings are still looking mostly the same ( I’ll attach a picture) except there are less white flaky pieces. Does anyone have advice??

 

[Grace11]

Id sure like to know what this is too! I have 5 silkies doing this, 2 are broody, have tried everything I can think of. No one appears sick at all. It appears green with some chunky looking things sometimes and is super smelly. Feeding them up as well as possible ACV in water, yogurt, fed Med chick starter for past week (thinking a variety of Cocci maybe)), today they got some DE in with food and Powdered Wormer in the water. These are young birds, will be a yr old about May. In their own coop and run. The main flock regular chickens all are fine.

 

[lmwheeler]

Id sure like to know what this is too! I have 5 silkies doing this, 2 are broody, have tried everything I can think of. No one appears sick at all. It appears green with some chunky looking things sometimes and is super smelly. Feeding them up as well as possible ACV in water, yogurt, fed Med chick starter for past week (thinking a variety of Cocci maybe)), today they got some DE in with food and Powdered Wormer in the water. These are young birds, will be a yr old about May. In their own coop and run. The main flock regular chickens all are fine.

 

[lmwheeler]

My chicken is a year and a half old. I also add cider vinegar to the water and use DE and feed them yogurt I lost three chickens earlier this year. One in January the next in March and the third in May. I even paid over $500 on a trip to the vet with two of them. I only have 3 left and one of those three is having the intestinal problems.

 

[staceyj]

Most vets will run a fecal float test for you for less than $20 even if they don't treat chickens.
I see the white flakes. Are they bits of plastic or bits of feather shafts? Also undigested pumpkin seeds. (Pepitas)


If the problem is paracites there are many kinds. They don't all respond to the same medications unfortunately.
Apple cider vinegar may be beneficial for many things but will not cure worms.
Adding DE now will not kill worms, and it's use is a hot button here. I'm not a proponent nor a detractor. I'm merely stating the fact in this case.
Pumpkin seeds are beneficial for some parasitic issues but not if they are shooting out whole with no digestion taking place.
Coccidiosis, which would be picked up on a fecal floatation, can overwhelm an animal and would require immediate treatment, but for an adult bird the amount of medication in chick feed is insufficient as a treatment. Corrid is the medication to use for that.

It would help if you filled out the questionnaire found at the top of the emergencies section. Knowing things like your geographical location, feed, crop conditions, age of bird, and the other questions listed will help the people here, help you and hopefully guide you to a treatment plan that will save your bird because diarrhea will take a toll sooner rather than later.

 

[TexasSam]

Get them some sav a chick to help them stay hydrated. What are they eating?

 

[lmwheeler]

Most vets will run a fecal float test for you for less than $20 even if they don't treat chickens.
I see the white flakes. Are they bits of plastic or bits of feather shafts? Also undigested pumpkin seeds. (Pepitas)


If the problem is paracites there are many kinds. They don't all respond to the same medications unfortunately.
Apple cider vinegar may be beneficial for many things but will not cure worms.
Adding DE now will not kill worms, and it's use is a hot button here. I'm not a proponent nor a detractor. I'm merely stating the fact in this case.
Pumpkin seeds are beneficial for some parasitic issues but not if they are shooting out whole with no digestion taking place.
Coccidiosis, which would be picked up on a fecal floatation, can overwhelm an animal and would require immediate treatment, but for an adult bird the amount of medication in chick feed is insufficient as a treatment. Corrid is the medication to use for that.

It would help if you filled out the questionnaire found at the top of the emergencies section. Knowing things like your geographical location, feed, crop conditions, age of bird, and the other questions listed will help the people here, help you and hopefully guide you to a treatment plan that will save your bird because diarrhea will take a toll sooner rather than later.

 

[lmwheeler]

I completely missed the information at the top. I have 3 chickens, the one in question is a barred rock and she recently molted so yes, I thought those were bits of feather shaft but wasn’t sure. I live in Huntington Beach California and I couldn’t find any vet that would do a fecal test for me when my others were sick. I had to pack them up and drive them to Long Beach to a vet that would examine them. I take my dog in tomorrow, maybe I can convince my dog/cat vet to do one for me. It all seemed to start with her molt. I feed them layer crumbles. Thanks for your help

 

[lmwheeler]

Get them some sav a chick to help them stay hydrated. What are they eating?

 

[lmwheeler]

I feed them layer crumbles