Urgent help needed! Our chicken is slowly dying!!
One of our two hens has been sick for 2 weeks now. They are free range at our back yard.
At the beginning she was just little lethargic and wasn't herself but still moving around slowly and eating, even though it's smaller amount than usual. Her poo was a bit warterly but wasn't too bad.
From day 4 the poo become just like liquid with no solid part almost, and she was mostly standing quietly in a warm place, very very little appetite but still drinking water if we bring to her. We started the antibiotic "Oxymav" (oxytetracycline hydrocholoride) and completed 5 days course but still no improvement apart from the poo become like yellow and green diarrhoea than complete liquid.
I went the the local farming supplies shop that we usually buy food or medicine for our chicken as they have great knowledge about chooks. I explained the symptoms to them and they think it's worm, so I wormed both of our chicken at day 10 with "Kilverm" (L Levamisole) . She was still eating but really really little and becoming weaker, and couldn't get her self back in the coop well so we had to help her.
Day 11, still not much change for her. In the morning she doesn't want to come out from the coop as its cold (it's winter here in Australia) until afternoon, then just sitting in a warm place. From this night we put her in the box during the night as it has been cold, but during day she was still happy to go out to be in the yard.
Next day (Thurdsay) she seems a bit better and had a bit more appetite so we were happy, but then Friday morning we found her in the box very sick again, can't stand up, and doesn't want to open her eyes much at all and she was like this all day yesterday.
This morning (Saturday) she is almost same condition. She has't been eating and drinking for the last 2 days and before that she was only eating very very little.
We have tried everything we can think of; antibiotics, wormer, apple cider vinegar in the water, giving her egg york & yoghurt, but seems nothing is really working.
This is the photo I just took this morning...
If anybody got an idea what's wrong with her please post!
Any HELP is appreciated.
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One of our two hens has been sick for 2 weeks now. They are free range at our back yard.
At the beginning she was just little lethargic and wasn't herself but still moving around slowly and eating, even though it's smaller amount than usual. Her poo was a bit warterly but wasn't too bad.
From day 4 the poo become just like liquid with no solid part almost, and she was mostly standing quietly in a warm place, very very little appetite but still drinking water if we bring to her. We started the antibiotic "Oxymav" (oxytetracycline hydrocholoride) and completed 5 days course but still no improvement apart from the poo become like yellow and green diarrhoea than complete liquid.
I went the the local farming supplies shop that we usually buy food or medicine for our chicken as they have great knowledge about chooks. I explained the symptoms to them and they think it's worm, so I wormed both of our chicken at day 10 with "Kilverm" (L Levamisole) . She was still eating but really really little and becoming weaker, and couldn't get her self back in the coop well so we had to help her.
Day 11, still not much change for her. In the morning she doesn't want to come out from the coop as its cold (it's winter here in Australia) until afternoon, then just sitting in a warm place. From this night we put her in the box during the night as it has been cold, but during day she was still happy to go out to be in the yard.
Next day (Thurdsay) she seems a bit better and had a bit more appetite so we were happy, but then Friday morning we found her in the box very sick again, can't stand up, and doesn't want to open her eyes much at all and she was like this all day yesterday.
This morning (Saturday) she is almost same condition. She has't been eating and drinking for the last 2 days and before that she was only eating very very little.
We have tried everything we can think of; antibiotics, wormer, apple cider vinegar in the water, giving her egg york & yoghurt, but seems nothing is really working.
This is the photo I just took this morning...
If anybody got an idea what's wrong with her please post!
Any HELP is appreciated.
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