HELP please! My buff orpington is sick AGAIN

[casportpony]

I re-read the thread and it looks like you did worm with Safeguard, but you didn't mention how much you gave her or if you did the 10 day follow up dose. The dose I would use would be .5ml per 2.2 pounds (50mg/kg). According to the table below she could weigh as much as 7 pounds (3.2kg) and at that weight I would give 1.6ml orally.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpington_(chicken)
Approximate weight (metric)[edit]

Rooster 4.5 kg 9.9 lbs
Hen 3.6 - 4.8 kg 7.9 - 10.6 lbs
Cockerel 3.8 kg 8.4 lbs
Pullet 3.2 kg 7 lbs


-Kathy

Edited to ad: The worming amount I suggested is the amount my avian vets told me to use.

 

[pwand]

I checked on her this morning and she seems a little better. She still has a long ways to go, but she seems to be taking baby steps in the right direction. She ate a little bit of food. Poop still dark brown and with a bunch of what seems to be intestinal lining... I am trying to come up with high calorie foods I can feed by hand (she only seems to eat when I'm there)...

Chickens love sardines.

 

[Sofi]

I treated her with SafeGuard about 10 days ago... I gave it again today.
I can't find a vet who will look at her.. NC State Univeristy has a poultry dept. here but you have to leave a voicemail and wait (which I did).

That one looks like blood but I also saw lining (stringy, mucousy, flexible).

I JUST checked her poop again and they have normal consistency, her bottom is dry... I was going to celebrate a step in the right direction when I saw a couple of really small (1/4 inch) white WORMS. I looked closer and saw more even smaller, really really tiny worms.

 

[Sofi]

Chickens love sardines.

Thanks!! I have some at home!! That's a great idea

 

[pwand]

Thanks!! I have some at home!! That's a great idea

Your welcome.

 

[Eggcessive]

That looks like blood to me, *not* intestinal lining. If she were mine I would worm her with Safeguard, not Wazine and start her on Baytril and Corid. Can you take her to a vet?

-Kathy

X2 on the blood!

She just finished up 5 days of Corid 2 days before this picture. I was thinking either resistant cocci or enteritis. Plus she has treated with safeguard 10 days ago. She chose to start on penicillin for the enteritis after reading up on it. Plus she doesn't have access to a vet. What are your thoughts on that?

 

[casportpony]

I treated her with SafeGuard about 10 days ago... I gave it again today. 
I can't find a vet who will look at her.. NC State Univeristy has a poultry dept. here but you have to leave a voicemail and wait (which I did).

That one looks like blood but I also saw lining (stringy, mucousy, flexible).

I JUST checked her poop again and they have normal consistency, her bottom is dry... I was going to celebrate a step in the right direction when I saw a couple of really small (1/4 inch) white WORMS. I looked closer and saw more even smaller, really really tiny worms.

If they weren't tapeworm segments, my money would be on capillary or cecal worms. Cecal worms can be treated effectively with Safeguard at .5ml per 2.2 pounds, but capillary worms need a more aggressive treatment or different wormer like Valbazen. The treatment I have used for capillary worms is Safeguard at .5ml per 2.2 pounds for 5 days in a row, but my vet is not the one that told me about this, so I don't feel comfortable telling others to do it.

Bottom line, you still have worms, so those need to be dealt with. Please, weigh her and give her a dose based on her current weight.


-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

She just finished up 5 days of Corid 2 days before this picture.  I was thinking either resistant cocci or enteritis. Plus she has treated with safeguard 10 days ago.   She chose to start on penicillin for the enteritis after reading up on it.  Plus she doesn't have access to a vet.  What are your thoughts on that?

So many possibilities... Was enough wormer given? Did she get enough Corid? Is there also a bacterial infection? Not sure how effective penicillin would be here, that's why I suggested Baytril.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I'm on the stupid iPad again, otherwise I'd search... Can someone do some searching for the effective dose of fenbendazole for capillary worms? I know that Valbazen will get them at .2ml per 2.2 pounds.

-Kathy

 

[Sofi]

You have no idea how much I appreciate your help with this.

I took a picture of a worm in the stool. As you can see, the diarrhea is gone and the worms are dead. She ate the entire dose of SafeGuard straight from the syringe (my poor girl is very very tame and sweet). She got better quickly. Right now she is almost back to normal. I'm not sure what is working: if the SafeGuard, the penicillin, or both. Her penicillin shot is due at 6 PM. Should I give it to her or not?

Last time she improved with the CORID and SafeGuard, but as you can see it didn't cure her completely.

It looks like a cecal worm or hair worm. I read cecal worms don't really cause problems?

Thank you so much, AGAIN.