TwistedTayy
Songster
I posted this to the chickens vet corner group on Facebook but have failed to get insight in what could be a timely fashion (14h). At the end I have updated with her condition this morning.
Flystrike
ANY help appreciated. I have been having the worst luck with my birds lately.
This hen was in a particular coop that has had issues with vent gleet. Yesterday she had no indication of anything being wrong with her but admittedly I did not check her as closely as I should have. I feel horrible.
I brought her inside immediately and put her in a warm epsom sink bath. My friend suggested a dawn bath so I put her in one of those as well. I only found one maggot after this (god only knows how many came off in the bath though). I carefully picked the maggot off and irrigated the cavity with Colloidal silver wound spray (closest thing at hand). I then dried her off and put her in a crate with a heating pad, scrambled eggs, water with papaya powder, royal jelly, and poultry cell, and regular food.
I want to know if there is any hope for her. I can do injections (I have LA-200) but I have no experience suturing. There is no vet available in our area on short notice (1 week wait) but I am willing to do whatever it takes (including HE if it comes to that). She is able to remain in the house. The wound is right below her vent and she has pooped in it since the bath. Should I loosely wrap with gauze?
Is there anything I should do for her flock mates? I have a broody in that coop that is due to hatch babies in less than a week. I was planning on removing most babies from her anyways but broodiness puts a lot of stress on their systems. Should I treat them with medi-statin? They have all been getting probiotics to help them fight the gleet (or in preparation for stronger treatments if it came to that).
This girl is about 8 months old and is a 55 flowery (descended from leghorns so her comb is normal floppy but not that color).
A short while after writing and submitting this I went and checked on the other chickens in that coop. The one that I had been keeping an eye on longest (first to show symptoms) had it the worst and the other hens were 100% fine. Ive attached photos of her too (the black hen below). Im going to separate her in the quarantine coop (in my carport) after bathing her and start treating her with medi-statin. She also has (what I believe to be) thrush on her face which is what I saw first (treated with canestan) and caused me to check the vents of the birds (5 days ago). This hen had VERY minor vent gleet and another had even less and the hen with the flystrike had none. The whole coop has been on probiotics for the gleet but also in case I needed to put them on antibiotics for respiratory symptoms I had been dealing with in other coops. The black hen was kind enough to poop directly in the sink so I grabbed a picture of it.
UPDATE:
She is doing well this morning. Bright and active (considering her condition but not her normal self). I gave her another Dawn bath last night before bed. Last night, her crop was HUGE and imo very compacted but it could just be impacted. She was eating rather vigorously last night. I oral dosed her with 0.5cc ducosate sodium (one 50mg pill) and 0.25cc red cell (to help with any anemia. I gave her liquimycin IM yesterday to prophylactically treat infection. The crop has emptied some (like I said it was much larger than a normal full crop) but is by no means even close to being empty and is still hard. The flystrike wound looks much better. Swelling has gone down and is not enflamed. Should I turn my attention to the crop now? Withhold food? Continue stool softener? (if so at what dose?)I also have acidified copper sulphate. Im out of coconut oil but I have olive oil.
Flystrike
ANY help appreciated. I have been having the worst luck with my birds lately.
This hen was in a particular coop that has had issues with vent gleet. Yesterday she had no indication of anything being wrong with her but admittedly I did not check her as closely as I should have. I feel horrible.
I brought her inside immediately and put her in a warm epsom sink bath. My friend suggested a dawn bath so I put her in one of those as well. I only found one maggot after this (god only knows how many came off in the bath though). I carefully picked the maggot off and irrigated the cavity with Colloidal silver wound spray (closest thing at hand). I then dried her off and put her in a crate with a heating pad, scrambled eggs, water with papaya powder, royal jelly, and poultry cell, and regular food.
I want to know if there is any hope for her. I can do injections (I have LA-200) but I have no experience suturing. There is no vet available in our area on short notice (1 week wait) but I am willing to do whatever it takes (including HE if it comes to that). She is able to remain in the house. The wound is right below her vent and she has pooped in it since the bath. Should I loosely wrap with gauze?
Is there anything I should do for her flock mates? I have a broody in that coop that is due to hatch babies in less than a week. I was planning on removing most babies from her anyways but broodiness puts a lot of stress on their systems. Should I treat them with medi-statin? They have all been getting probiotics to help them fight the gleet (or in preparation for stronger treatments if it came to that).
This girl is about 8 months old and is a 55 flowery (descended from leghorns so her comb is normal floppy but not that color).
A short while after writing and submitting this I went and checked on the other chickens in that coop. The one that I had been keeping an eye on longest (first to show symptoms) had it the worst and the other hens were 100% fine. Ive attached photos of her too (the black hen below). Im going to separate her in the quarantine coop (in my carport) after bathing her and start treating her with medi-statin. She also has (what I believe to be) thrush on her face which is what I saw first (treated with canestan) and caused me to check the vents of the birds (5 days ago). This hen had VERY minor vent gleet and another had even less and the hen with the flystrike had none. The whole coop has been on probiotics for the gleet but also in case I needed to put them on antibiotics for respiratory symptoms I had been dealing with in other coops. The black hen was kind enough to poop directly in the sink so I grabbed a picture of it.
UPDATE:
She is doing well this morning. Bright and active (considering her condition but not her normal self). I gave her another Dawn bath last night before bed. Last night, her crop was HUGE and imo very compacted but it could just be impacted. She was eating rather vigorously last night. I oral dosed her with 0.5cc ducosate sodium (one 50mg pill) and 0.25cc red cell (to help with any anemia. I gave her liquimycin IM yesterday to prophylactically treat infection. The crop has emptied some (like I said it was much larger than a normal full crop) but is by no means even close to being empty and is still hard. The flystrike wound looks much better. Swelling has gone down and is not enflamed. Should I turn my attention to the crop now? Withhold food? Continue stool softener? (if so at what dose?)I also have acidified copper sulphate. Im out of coconut oil but I have olive oil.
