Emergency! Dying hen! Need advice!

[TOP KNOT]

Sugar water

 

[ThaiDye]

Pedialyte, mashed food, sugar water

 

[ThaiDye]

Eggs are great too, but she may not want to eat yet

 

[Naamahbengals]

Ok, I've given her some sugar water, mashed chick food (only about a dime sized bit of it), with a tad bit of kid vitamins (no iron). But she just sits there and barely swallows the water, and.. I don't think she is swallowing the food. Doesn't even fight me. :/

 

[pwand]

Keep her segregated from your other birds, you don't want your own flock to get sick.

 

[Naamahbengals]

She is. I have her in a box in the house.

 

[Mei&Popcorn]

If you get desperate, you could try syringe feeding her...

 

[Naamahbengals]

Had to leave the house, I was pretty sure she wasn't going to make it. She hadn't swallowed that lump of wet feed, and she had let her head fall to the floor. But I come home, and guess what? She had her head tucked sleeping. So I petted her, and she woke up and made tiny sounds and looked around a bit. Pecked at the floor. So I gave her a little bowl of water and one of chick feed, and she's now eating and drinking by herself! So happy! I think she will make it!

 

[ThaiDye]

That's great. Keep offering her food. Don't depend on her eating enough yet. Sick birds will often act like they're eating even though they're not. Hope she gets better soon.

 

[TOP KNOT]

I love happy endings!