Crying out in pain; anything I can do?

[ChooksChick]

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Georgie hated the dissolved aspirin. I used a fingernail to pry open her beak and held it open while tossing the aspirin in the back. She swallowed it then. I think she learned that it was helpful, because after a while she'd peck it up on her own, despite hating everything else, including scrambled eggs!

You must force food and especially water- he'll not make it if he doesn't get enough, and it doesn't take long.

 

[hinkjc]

Green poo is a sign of lack of food (obviously from not eating due to whatever is going on). Are you sure he's not just lonely and depressed because he doesn't have a flock? I know birds are flock creatures and prefer to be with someone. Can you give him a single friend and see if it perks him up before it's too late?

eta - I also wanted to ask - I think you said he's in the dark. If so, how can he see to eat?

 

[Kittymomma]

http://happyhenhouse.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=poop&action=display&thread=7588

Here's a link to one of the poo pages. Sure hope your guy gets better.

 

[chickerdoodle]

M@M@2four :

Okay, I know some will disagree, but I have had a dog attack before on a group of chickens and gave them baby tylenol. I gave them 1/2 tsp every 4-6 hours. Check him all over and make sure he doesn't have any extrenal damage, confine him and I would give him some sort of source of heat unless it's warm where you live. It sounds like he was picked on by the other ones--he is older as well, so likely to get hurt. Anyhow, I never had any side effects from the baby tylenol and it seemed to help them...all lived after LOTS of tlc. Ialso fed them cooked egg, rice, and crumble and gave them pedialyte in the their water. You can also add a little sugar to his water...that's just my 2 cents and what worked for me. Good luck!!!

Tylenol and Advil are very toxic--deadly--to dogs and cats. I don't know about birds but I would not recommend you do it. Just because its been done doesn't mean it won't kill your chicken. I appreciate this poster adding the caveat but had to add the note on cats and dogs in case someone thinks "why not for the dog then?"

 

[chicknmania]

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It's not that dark. Just not sunny,and cold, so there is less light in the barn b/c we can't open all the doors like we normally would and his pen is enclosed anyway. I don't think it has anything to do with loneliness. He got to spend a part of every nice day free ranging with his friends in the flock (two other roosters and a couple hens here and there) most of September and October and even November. We have had him for years and my DS just started experimenting with the supervised free ranging cause it was working well, but not well enough to let him free range all the time. I'm sure he was seriously lacking in female company but he probably got a girlfriend once in a while when free ranging. This is not of case of gradual declining, except for the not eating as much. He has been acting OK, and crowing up til yesterday. He might have been a bit lonely but he could see, hear, and talk to the others...dunno that's interesting about the green poo but I am afraid to put anyone in there with him and I think he's really too sick to care. He has never been much of an eater, that's why we didn't pay much attention to his declining appetite. We were able to force feed him some Gatorade, and he did drink it. But he cries out if you handle him too much. If he is still alive tomorrow, I will try to see if I can get him to eat some yogurt or something.

 

[chicknmania]

Here's something else I thought of. I researched this and though i could't find anything about fluid retention in chickens, in people it can be caused by heart or liver failure or cancer, among other things, but also allergic conditions. So I wondered...I have had the flock on Aviacharge since it started to turn cold, and the other day I switched them to ACV, b/c I was worried about another roo we have who had laryngitis (he is recovering) I didn't want to risk a possible infection re the laryngitis spreading in the flock, though it hasn't. Could Fuego have had an allergic reaction to the ACV? or even the Aviacharge. He has never had ACV before. I mean I guess he could; I just wondered what others thought?

 

[dlhunicorn]

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No.... What have you been feeding him as standard feed all this time? Has he had a source of non-layer feed?
I strongly suspect your dear little roo is very very ill and as such totally unable to deal with the cold stress. I suspect if you do not get him in a warmer tempstable area that it will not turn out well for him.
If you have not wormed him lately do so (use ivermectin or ivomecEprinex spot-on topically) and continue the aviacharge... do not feed him layer but offer him a grower feed (or failing that chick starter). Add a bit of cooked human oatmeal (cooked in water not milk) to the feed (mix the avia charge in with that) > this often helps them perk up and eat more (sprinkling a bit of cooked egg on top of that will too) and the moistened feed will help against dehydration (ill birds often neglect to drink)

 

[chris_m90731]

try vaseline for leg mites

 

[chicknmania]

He died overnight. A friend suggested maybe he had a systemic infection and I think that's a good guess, due the speed with which his illness progressed. Although I am kicking myself for not paying more attention to his drop in appetite the past couple of days, or for not bringing him inside last night. I was unable to attempt force feeding him last hight I had to work and had no one else at the time to help me. I was gonna try it this morning. In answer to your question dlh he had cracked corn or scratch. No layer at all.

Thanks everyone.

 

[ZooMummzy]

I'm very sorry for your loss. Don't be too hard on yourself for not noticing his lack of appetite for a few days. It sounds like he was very ill and maybe nothing you could have done to help him. Good thoughts and hugs coming your way. It's always hard to lose them.