Found sick young polish crested on back !!!!!!

[MRF8989]

1) What type of bird , age and weight.---Crested Polish pullet 5 months don't know weight.

2) What is the behavior, exactly.----Wobbling, found her laying on her back, drowsy, her eye is not grey
but has discharge, crusts up a bit....she is missing some feather around her eye, also her beak at top is motley and discolored.

3) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma. -no, also no bugs or stuff atthe base of feathers....no egg as far as i can tell

4) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.-nothing

5) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.-eating i use a dropper to give water to her.

6) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.-greenish brown, runny, but some are small and dryish.

7) What has been the treatment you have administered so far? yogurt, egg yolk, honey, Nutritional yeast, antibiotics ( in the water), and Tetramicine in her eye which is watery.

8 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet? Can't afford a vet wish to help her as much as i can.

9) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.

10) Describe the housing/bedding in use Shavings, the coop was in use about 2 years ago, cleaned it out put in shavings, she is too weak to fly to her box. sitts on the floor.


My chickens roam in the yard about 200 sq feet. fenced in. some birds are in our yard, no pesticides as far as i know. I feed them growing feed for young and laying feed for hen, as of 2 days ago put antibotic in water. No change. She will walk around but then stops and looks to be falling asleep with droopy head. Her nose? is clogged with the eye discharge(sometimes)

 

[Judy]

What antibiotic are you giving? Is she on medicated feed, or was she, when she was younger? Do you know what medication it was, if she was? What is her diet now? On the weight, does she feel like she has lost weight, or does she feel bony or thin?

I would give a probiotic, either from the feed store or a tsp of live culture plain yogurt; she might take it better if you mix it with a bit of feed. Also some infant vitamin drops with out iron, from the drug store or WalMart; put 2 or 3 drops on the side of her beak. This won't cure her but will give her some nutritional support to fight whatever she has. If she is on a mycin drug in the water, it must be the probiotics from the feed store, not the yogurt.

Has she ever been wormed? Have you had to treat for cocci? I know this sounds more respiratory, but is good background information.

Here is an introductory article about respiratory disease in chickens, if you are not familiar:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=9241

 

[MRF8989]

I threw out the wrapper , it is a yellow powder, tea spoon per gallon change daily.

She is on growth feed, I do not know if the feed is/was medicated. She seems the right size, her poop seems a bit dry, and small. She is eating and drinking...Just not walking very much....

I got the pullets at a feed store told me they were vaccinated.

What happens if the antibiotic is a mycin? and i gave them yogurt?

The feed store told me to give her terrmycin for her eye.


Martha

 

[Judy]

When baby chicks have been vaccinated it is almost always for Marek's, which is a viral and mostly neurological condition, not respiratory. There is a cocci vaccine, too, but that is gastrointestinal, not respiratory.

For people, if a milk product (or an antacid) is consumed within one hour before to two hours after consuming a mycin drug, the drug is inactivated. I've never used a feed store antibiotic so don't know what the yellow powder is.

I am linking a thread in which threehorses suggests VetRX to help with the eye problem and talks about care of the eye. I would do this if I could find some. You need to complete the course of antibiotics now that you have started. Give yogurt or probiotics after the antibiotics if you are not sure what it is. This restores normal gut flora which lets them absorb nutrients better.

I don't know what the green poop means, either. I will also link the "poop chart," in case you have not seen it. If I were you I would do a search on green poop or green diarrhea here, and see what you come up with.

Good luck.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=218202

http://www.chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0

 

[MRF8989]

Thanks for all your help...
I will see what i can do....