Help!! Chicken has gone down hill over night!!!

[Skyler vaughan]

If caught early and with the right antibiotic treatment, some can survive.

But after looking more closely at the picture, I doubt that she will make it on her own. Sorry.

Tell me how to treat it?

 

[azygous]

She likely has something pathological going on, an avian virus perhaps. Infection maybe. There's no way to diagnose it while she's still alive. Marek's and avian leucosis can produce tumors that eventually shut down the organs. There's nothing you can do about it.

If this is a systemic bacterial infection from the wound, it's seems the wound would show signs of it, but maybe not, if the wound was a puncture wound initially. I suppose it could heal at the surface while the infection has circulated throughout her body. You could try her on an oral antibiotic, but if this is infection, she may be too advanced for the antibiotic to save her at this point.

 

[Skyler vaughan]

She likely has something pathological going on, an avian virus perhaps. Infection maybe. There's no way to diagnose it while she's still alive. Marek's and avian leucosis can produce tumors that eventually shut down the organs. There's nothing you can do about it.

If this is a systemic bacterial infection from the wound, it's seems the wound would show signs of it, but maybe not, if the wound was a puncture wound initially. I suppose it could heal at the surface while the infection has circulated throughout her body. You could try her on an oral antibiotic, but if this is infection, she may be too advanced for the antibiotic to save her at this point.

Ok, thank you. I hope she isn’t in too much pain

 

[azygous]

My comment posted just as you posted the photos. It appears from the poop that there is blood present. It can be from coccidia, but I don't know how she would have been exposed if she's been confined. Maybe a delayed response from exposure prior to confinement.

It won't hurt to give her a Corid drench along with Corid water. If she's an average size hen, give her .5ml undiluted Corid directly into her beak. Do this for three days along with the Corid water.

She would also need an antibiotic. Do you have any on hand?

 

[Skyler vaughan]

My comment posted just as you posted the photos. It appears from the poop that there is blood present. It can be from coccidia, but I don't know how she would have been exposed if she's been confined. Maybe a delayed response from exposure prior to confinement.

It won't hurt to give her a Corid drench along with Corid water. If she's an average size hen, give her .5ml undiluted Corid directly into her beak. Do this for three days along with the Corid water.

She would also need an antibiotic. Do you have any on hand?

Ok thank you! I’ve never heard of corid, but I’ll try and get some soon. We only have sheep and cow antibiotics so no.

 

[azygous]

Sheep and cow antibiotics will also work on chickens. What do you have?

Are you in the US? If you are in Europe or Asia, you will not be able to get Corid, but another brand of coccidiostat. They are labeled for cows or pigs or horses, but it works the exact same on chickens.

 

[Skyler vaughan]

Sheep and cow antibiotics will also work on chickens. What do you have?

Are you in the US? If you are in Europe or Asia, you will not be able to get Corid, but another brand of coccidiostat. They are labeled for cows or pigs or horses, but it works the exact same on chickens.

Yes we are in the Uk, we have oxytetracycline and procaine penicillin.

 

[LaFleche]

Use the oxytetracycline.

Procaine is a local anaesthestic which is harmful for chickens.

 

[Skyler vaughan]

Use the oxytetracycline.

Procaine is a local anaesthestic which is harmful for chickens.

How much should I use and where do we inject her?

 

[LaFleche]

Oxytetracyclin would be injected in the muscle (breast or leg), but the injection might lead to necrosis of the injected muscle.