EMERGANCY!! DIEING CHICKEN - NEED HELP!!!

[Jenneh85]

VET DOESNT KNOW WHAT IS WRONG.

Hello, I am worried about one of my buff orpingtons, Her name is Egglington "Eggly" for short. Everything seemed fine until yesterday when I saw her laying on the ground in 104 degrees while everyone else was running around eating and drinking.

She wasn't drinking and eating. I took her to the vet and was told she was dehydrated and deathly skinny as though she was emaciated. I was given three medications and a bag of juvenile formula to hand feed her with with a tube.

She is resting quite a bit, sometimes laying down all the way fluffed up or standing with her head down and fluffed up. Since yesterday I was able to buy a heat lamp for her and put her in the old brooder. I fed her this morning but it wasn't enough, at the vet she was given 8cc 3x ; this morning at 6:20 she took in about 4cc

Noon was 5cc - She isn't eating on her own at all, nor drinking. She has this weird film on the inside of her beak and throat. Her eyes seem clear but teary. Her comb is light pink but not pale white. Her vet is clean and not swollen or worm eggs at all. No mites what so ever and I personally don't know if she was treated when I purchased her when she was 1 1/2 weeks old from the pet club here in town.

I am really worried about my Lil' Eggly. I was curious if anyone had any thing at all they could tell me to help her come around an get better so she is back with the other gals.

I purchased some more electrolytes and poultry cell. I was told that I could give her the full 3cc non- diluted.


Any help would be greatly appreciated, its tugging on my heart strings

 

[Folly's place]

Welcome! I'm so sorry, and hope that she can get better. Often birds act fine until they just can't cope anymore, and are extremely ill when you can figure it out. Sick chickens just look sick, which covers a lot of possible issues. Mary

 

[Jenneh85]

Thank you!

I just gave her, her night time medications, due to our acre being flooded for irrigation I have to wait on giving her food as its a 4 hand job.

I would just like to know what would cause this, and so fast to the point you can feel her breast bone sticking out. She has no weight to her at all, the saying light as a feather isnt a joke in this case.

 

[Mtn Laurel]

Sorry to hear about your gal. How old is she?

 

[Jenneh85]

I am guessing now, because she was 1 1/2 weeks old when I bought her in May.

I would say maybe 2 months give or take a few or more, its really hard to give a exact age. Sorry.

 

[Jenneh85]

I was also told that the Harrison juvenile formula was the best, but I have seen peoples posts of other methods to "feed" a better source of food to the chicken to insure that she survives.

Any food recommendations would be great because her feeding time is soon, and her crop is empty.

 

[Mtn Laurel]

Didn't realize she was so young. Try giving her some mashed boiled egg, that's what I give my birds when they're sick.

Did the vet test a stool sample? Given her age and that she's lethargic and "fluffed up", my first guess would be that she has Coccidiosis. It's not unusual for chicks to get it and it seems that there are more outbreaks of it when you have hot, wet weather. You can treat it with a medication called Corid, which you can find it in Tractor Supply and other farm stores.

I sure hope that she comes around for you but sometimes a bird will just fail to thrive for reasons that you're never able to determine. Fingers crossed she is soon better.

 

[TheRambler]

It sounds like coccidiosis or worms. I would worm with valbazen or wazine. If wazine use it first, wait 10 days and then worm with safeguard.

 

[Jenneh85]

The place I bought her from said they don't vaccinate their chickens, So I am unaware if she was or not. The vet said she is mite-less and that's a good thing.

I look at her poop (when ever she does because with no food in her system its hard to tell) and I dont see anything moving around. Her eyes are clear not cloudy or weird in any way besides always closed and sometimes watery.

I do have Poultry Cell I gave her 3cc's with 1cc water in to make it a even 4cc.

Gave her her medication a bit late this morning but never the less still gave them do her, I got this probio its a pro-biotic bought from the same place I got her at and it says I could give it to chickens, I haven't tried with Eggly yet.

Her tongue this morning was pale and that mucus is still there, last night when we tried to feed her we were able to give her the Poultry Cell but she started to wheeze, I thought I got it down the wrong tube.

I will take a picture of the type of feeding tube I have, because she isnt eating her starter feed on her own, and doesn't have any interest at all in water. I was able to get her to drink down one droplet from a dropper syringe.

 

[Jenneh85]

How else can you tell if she has worms, besides seeing them in her poop?

She has massive weight loss, no interest in food or water. Always resting.