Emergency- Please help with poisoned chicken

[VreelandFarmlet]

She is still pale, but doing a little scratching in the coop bedding, not just staring into space anymore! So for the electrolytes, is this a chicken specific electrolyte, or is it a human thing from Walgreens, etc? I'm going to try to find some.

 

[GingerJane]

Do you have a local fleet supply anywhere you live like a place where you buy live stock/farm stuff?

 

[GingerJane]

Here's a picture of it, It's for animal use

 

[VreelandFarmlet]

There is a Farm & Fleet store near my husband's workplace. Their poultry products are pretty limited--but I feel like I've seen some packets sort of like that. I will have my husband stop after work! Thank you for the photo!

 

[GingerJane]

are her eyes have crust and look bubbley?

 

[VreelandFarmlet]

Nope, her eyes are clear and clean...she did come down the ladder and pick around in the grass a bit, also picked at some oyster shells--pretty slowly, and now she is sitting in the nest box again resting. She's still very pale but ate the rest of the boiled egg. Looks like she's had a few watery poops throughout the day.

My husband will be home in an hour or so with the electrolytes...I think I'll mash a little with part of a banana, and then put some in their waterer too so she and her roommate get some continuously. Does anyone think that is too much? Can you overdo it on electrolytes?

 

[juwjuw]

I have a question but it is about a quail, I noticed the this afternoon one was laying an egg the egg was caught up in the membrane and she had been staining finally got up and walking around yet the egg was hanging on still. When my husband got home we removed the egg yet her membrane would not return, since then we put her in isolation and keeping an eye on. Is there anything else we can do for her? Thinking best if no stress of mating or producing, but for how long and is she a lost cause?

 

[VreelandFarmlet]

UPDATE: Thanks everyone for the advice and encouragement!

I gave Ginger electrolytes in her 3 gallon waterer, and followed the link that was posted by someone about sour crop....every symptom sounded like she had developed that after eating the Bleeding Heart and getting poisoned. I could feel that she didn't have an impacted lump in there, but her crop kept filling up with nasty gray fluid. I found information about treating Sour Crop, that said to turn the hen upside down and help her throw up twice a day. I did that for three days, and every morning I gave her a big plate of unsweetened plain yogurt to get her probiotics in order. FINALLY, one evening I checked her crop and there was no extra fluid in there. Her comb started turning red again, she started foraging and picking grass again, and 2 days later she is sleeping on the roost again instead of in the nest box! yay! Today she is at 100%, back to normal.

I just wanted to share what worked for Ginger, in case anyone else gets into the same problem! It feels so good to have helped her get better Thanks everybody!