Diahrrea and vomiting. Sleeping standing. No eggs in four days

[Maev]

My understanding is that wazine only kills one type of worm. To make sure you kill the kind of worm she has you have to use a different wormer. Do a search on this forum for worms and there should be lots of info out there. Including the different wormers you can use, dosage, how long you should toss the eggs for, etc. Good luck!

 

[86121]

My understanding is that wazine only kills one type of worm.  To make sure you kill the kind of worm she has you have to use a different wormer.  Do a search on this forum for worms and there should be lots of info out there. Including the different wormers you can use, dosage, how long you should toss the eggs for, etc. Good luck!

The problem is though that if she does a powerful wormer it could kill the sick hen.
Sadly I have done just this...
If you start with a light de-wormer and then once there better hit them with something harder, it is easyer on there weakened system.

 

[KFaye]

Well. I gave her two warm baths and held her all day to keep her warm as she slept. Gave her .25ml of Naprazene. I say I tried to give her it some of it shot out of her mouth. She is just standing and sleeping. Barely moving. I went to peek and the coop again and noticed that the roosts have yellow yoke type substance on them. May she was egg bound and it broke. Wonder if I should get her on anitbiotics.

 

[86121]

Well. I gave her two warm baths and held her all day to keep her warm as she slept. Gave her .25ml of Naprazene. I say I tried to give her it some of it shot out of her mouth. She is just standing and sleeping. Barely moving. I went to peek and the coop again and noticed that the roosts have yellow yoke type substance on them. May she was egg bound and it broke. Wonder if I should get her on anitbiotics.

Antibiotics wont hurt at all! I would get her on them ASAP if your afraid that anything might be stuck up there.
It really still sounds like worms from my experince, and from that experince I dont give your hen very much longer. Check her breast bone, is it sharp or rounded?

 

[KFaye]

Breast bone is sharp. Is that what I am feeling near her crop? Literally feels like she ate something hard and sharp

 

[86121]

Breast bone is sharp. Is that what I am feeling near her crop? Literally feels like she ate something hard and sharp

Oh thats not good.
She has been going down hill for a while from the sounds of it.
Try and entice her to eat, cottage cheese, cheese, yogurt, cracked corn, bread, anything.
I would really get a form of de-wormer for her ASAP, or get water and food in her as soon as you can to try and keep her going.

 

[KFaye]

De-wormer done. Now gettting her to snack . I have a couple of berries and some cheese. Also she is drinking water that has antibiotic powder mixed into it. My next worry. She is going to town on the water. The water is the right dosage but could she drink too much of it and get sick?

 

[KFaye]

Today she doesn't seem much better. She drank water with antibiotics. I am offering that again today. I did notice in coop dried yokes on roosts. Today she pooped a shell less egg again.
Anything else I can do for her other than antibiotics? She still won't eat. offered scrambled eggs, berries cheese and yogurt.

 

[2greenboyz]

When mine won't eat I give them small chunks of bread soaked in water, many times they'll eat that. Being skinny is not in your favor, I'm sure you realize that. Best thing tho is to keep her hydrated, try to use eyedropper and get some water in her if not drinking. Can add a little sugar to it if she's not eating so she'll have some calories. How does her crop feel is it spongy? Good luck I know what you are going thru

 

[cafarmgirl]

I had a three year old hen with those exact symptoms. She died a day later, vet confimed coccidiosis. She showed no symptoms until the day before she died, she wasn't eating much at all but was drinking like crazy and had very watery poop. When I picked her up to examine her that last day she was so full of water she threw it all up. No blood in the poop at any point. I had a couple more start looking puffed up the next day but I started the whole flock on Corid and everybody else cleared up fast. Egg production went up almost immediately.

WIthout testing you can't be sure of what your hen has but I would treat immediately with Corid and then when you are done with that deworm everybody and give probiotics. You can find Corid at most feed stores, mine carries the water soluble powder 20%, labeled for calves. Dose is 1/2 tsp per gallon of water for 5 to 7 days. Treat the whole flock. I would use Corid and not any of the sulfa drugs like Sulmet. Very harsh on the birds systems. Corid is much easier on them.

I personally don't bother with Wazine, it only kills round worms and there's a lot more junk chickens pick up. I use Strongid, Valbazen and Eprinex on a rotating basis. Unless you want to use Wazine first to get rid of some worms if you think they have a heavy load, then follow up in 10 days with something better. No matter what you use you need to do a repeat in 10 days to clean up anything parasite that was in egg/cyct form the first time.

Valbazen is liguid, you give 1/2 cc orally for standard chickens, 1/4cc for bantams. I use little one ml syringes, no needle to squirt it in their beaks. Eprinex I use topically between the shoulders, same dose. Dose for Strongid escapes me at the moment, I'll have to look it up.

You will need to move fast if you want to save your hen. They hide their illness until they are feeling so badly they just can't do it anymore. So by the time you are seeing visible, obvious symtoms you have a very sick bird.

Good luck, I hope this was helpful and that you are able to pull her through. I'd worry first about coccidiosis, it kill's fast if that's what it is.