Castlewood
Songster
This is a continuation of a previously posted thread about recommended Corid dosage; I've moved here because I don't want to hijack that thread any further. To see the original thread with background info about our specific issue with our 5.5 month old Easter Egger Peg, along with Corid dosage recs from @casportpony , go here.
After several days of things looking up, Peg has taken a turn for the worse. We're trying to figure it out quickly, but tbh it feels like a (frustrating) guessing game.
Below are updated photos of her and her poop, which I took just a few minutes ago. We've put her back inside full-time; when she was showing such improvement we'd been letting her out into the yard daily with the flock and keeping her in the isolation crate overnight.
What we've done:
Liquid Corid drench, per instructions linked above, 2x/day for 5 days
Powdered Corid in drinking water per instructions I found on BYC but can't find now; at 2tsp/gallon for 6 days, now at 1/2 that
Electrolytes (no vitamins) in the water
About an hour ago we put doxycycline hyclate in her water (100mg/packet into 8oz water), no Corid, thinking perhaps she's got a secondary infection
Her crop has been more or less empty throughout the day, despite the fact that she's been eating & drinking just fine (until today anyway), so now I'm wondering if perhaps there's a worm issue...I've got some Safeguard for goats on hand, if anyone feels like that's the way we should go.
Our local vet won't test poop unless they "have a relationship with the animal" and therefore they must see her first; earliest appt. is Tuesday, 4 days from now, and in our limited experience with chickens, that could be far too late.
Add'l info: Peg came to us at about a month old, along with 9 other pullets, and almost immediately started sneezing. We don't cull our backyard flock, so instead isolated her right away to give a round of doxycycline, which we'd learned about after losing several other hens to respiratory illness months prior. She recovered like a champ and became head chickie of that group--and also a complete, cuddly lap chicken. Needless to say, we don't want to lose her now.
Any insight, recommendations, guidance, or prayers will be welcome!
After several days of things looking up, Peg has taken a turn for the worse. We're trying to figure it out quickly, but tbh it feels like a (frustrating) guessing game.
Below are updated photos of her and her poop, which I took just a few minutes ago. We've put her back inside full-time; when she was showing such improvement we'd been letting her out into the yard daily with the flock and keeping her in the isolation crate overnight.
What we've done:
Liquid Corid drench, per instructions linked above, 2x/day for 5 days
Powdered Corid in drinking water per instructions I found on BYC but can't find now; at 2tsp/gallon for 6 days, now at 1/2 that
Electrolytes (no vitamins) in the water
About an hour ago we put doxycycline hyclate in her water (100mg/packet into 8oz water), no Corid, thinking perhaps she's got a secondary infection
Her crop has been more or less empty throughout the day, despite the fact that she's been eating & drinking just fine (until today anyway), so now I'm wondering if perhaps there's a worm issue...I've got some Safeguard for goats on hand, if anyone feels like that's the way we should go.
Our local vet won't test poop unless they "have a relationship with the animal" and therefore they must see her first; earliest appt. is Tuesday, 4 days from now, and in our limited experience with chickens, that could be far too late.
Add'l info: Peg came to us at about a month old, along with 9 other pullets, and almost immediately started sneezing. We don't cull our backyard flock, so instead isolated her right away to give a round of doxycycline, which we'd learned about after losing several other hens to respiratory illness months prior. She recovered like a champ and became head chickie of that group--and also a complete, cuddly lap chicken. Needless to say, we don't want to lose her now.
Any insight, recommendations, guidance, or prayers will be welcome!
