Hello,
My 9 month old hen, Digger, has been very sick. It started about 10 days ago, and I started the whole flock on Wrm Clear right away because I thought I recognized the symptoms. She was a bit puffed up and not as energetic as normal, then I noticed some white diarrhea. She seemed to not really be getting worse for a while and I actually thought maybe she was just depressed because one of our other hens had passed a few days before. Then about 4 or 5 days again I actually saw a live worm in her poop which confirmed my original thought. At this point she has very runny dark green and white poop, but I haven’t noticed any more worms. They have been on worm clear for 8 days now and she is only getting worse, so obviously it’s not working. Yesterday I gave her a dose of Safe Gaurd paste in case it’s a different kind of worm or needs something stronger so I really hope that helps. Today I took her to the vet because I have been so worried about her and I don’t know what else to do, but we don’t have an avian specialist in our town. We just have a small animal vet who works on chickens occasionally, but I don’t think she really knows much about it and it wasn’t very helpful. I had to drop her off for 5 hours because they only had emergency appointments left, and they did a fecal test which I should hear back about tomorrow. Other than that all the vet said was that she seems very sick and she is very under weight, she only weighs 3lbs. Right now I’m most worried about the fact that she is not drinking or eating much at all. I’ve only seen her take a drink once on her own today and same for yesterday. I did give her some electrolyte water by syringe, and she ate some apple and yogurt, but not much. Any advice will be greatly helpful, I really want to help her get through this.
My 9 month old hen, Digger, has been very sick. It started about 10 days ago, and I started the whole flock on Wrm Clear right away because I thought I recognized the symptoms. She was a bit puffed up and not as energetic as normal, then I noticed some white diarrhea. She seemed to not really be getting worse for a while and I actually thought maybe she was just depressed because one of our other hens had passed a few days before. Then about 4 or 5 days again I actually saw a live worm in her poop which confirmed my original thought. At this point she has very runny dark green and white poop, but I haven’t noticed any more worms. They have been on worm clear for 8 days now and she is only getting worse, so obviously it’s not working. Yesterday I gave her a dose of Safe Gaurd paste in case it’s a different kind of worm or needs something stronger so I really hope that helps. Today I took her to the vet because I have been so worried about her and I don’t know what else to do, but we don’t have an avian specialist in our town. We just have a small animal vet who works on chickens occasionally, but I don’t think she really knows much about it and it wasn’t very helpful. I had to drop her off for 5 hours because they only had emergency appointments left, and they did a fecal test which I should hear back about tomorrow. Other than that all the vet said was that she seems very sick and she is very under weight, she only weighs 3lbs. Right now I’m most worried about the fact that she is not drinking or eating much at all. I’ve only seen her take a drink once on her own today and same for yesterday. I did give her some electrolyte water by syringe, and she ate some apple and yogurt, but not much. Any advice will be greatly helpful, I really want to help her get through this.
