Help - is my chicken sick?

[nimrah]

To help, give your chicken new bedding. Make sure there is ventilation. Make sure there is access to a smaller grain of food and there is freshwater. Check the temperature. Also is there droppings bloody? there owners before you did they have other animals?

 

[ShannonsChimkens]

We can't really do a vet...pretty sure we don't have anyone in our area that would do chickens either. Where do you get this medicine? Do you have to go to a vet?

TSC or a farm feed store/CO-OP There is a meds section normally for large mammals. Kind of in the area where you would find Corid.

I used 22 gauge needles. I would read on the proper dosage to give a bird of their size. Also would read up on where to administer. I just picked the only place I know and that’s the back of the neck. I did read that in the breast area can burn them. But again, I’m no vet and only did this to keep my birds alive. I’ve only had cockerels and roosters that have needed the antibiotics and gave them shy of 1cc. On the smaller cockerel he got 1/2cc.

 

[kqs]

I've had chickens before none have ever done this before but you said it was not eating or drinking. does it shake its head a lot? has it been with another chicken that has recently been lost or harmed?

The two sick ones were shaking their heads a lot the first day or two but less so today. I don't know their history - they are 16 week old pullets that we got from a reputable feed-type place. They do act like they have never really been handled by humans before, very skiddish.

 

[kqs]

To help, give your chicken new bedding. Make sure there is ventilation. Make sure there is access to a smaller grain of food and there is freshwater. Check the temperature. Also is there droppings bloody? there owners before you did they have other animals?

We changed the bedding on Saturday, after we noticed they were not well. The coop is well ventilated and the run is totally open. Water access is great, one of them was drinking better yesterday and today. We saw a couple of droppings that were bloody until we started the corid treatment and they have been better, though hard to tell whose poop is whose. They ame from a reputable feed-type place here. But we don't know much about them before that, only 16 weeks old.

 

[kqs]

TSC or a farm feed store/CO-OP There is a meds section normally for large mammals. Kind of in the area where you would find Corid.
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I used 22 gauge needles. I would read on the proper dosage to give a bird of their size. Also would read up on where to administer. I just picked the only place I know and that’s the back of the neck. I did read that in the breast area can burn them. But again, I’m no vet and only did this to keep my birds alive. I’ve only had cockerels and roosters that have needed the antibiotics and gave them shy of 1cc. On the smaller cockerel he got 1/2cc.

Thanks so much - I will look for this. Really appreciate it