I have a 2 year old Golden Comet, and about a month ago I noticed that she was sick. I brought her in, and she was barely eating or drinking and had yellow droppings. Then she started passing lash eggs. And worms.
She was treated for the worms with some Wazine, and I treated her with Amtyl for a few days while I waited on some Baytril. I let her system have no antibiotics for a few days in between the Amtyl and the Baytril, but she hadn't taken much Amtyl, as it was in her water and she was only drinking about an ounce per day. Finally got the Baytril and gave her crop doses, and after 5 days, she was perked back up.
She's eating like a champ, drinking between 8 ounces and 12 ounces of water a day. The water currently has a probiotic in it, and has for the last several days. She has access to grit, as well. Her droppings no longer have the bad yellow color, and sometimes they are normal looking droppings, fully formed and with a white urate cap, but at least half the time she's passing very liquid stools and it looks like her feed is almost completely undigested. I'll post a photo in the comments.
Any suggestions for helping her digestive system normalize? I was thinking of taking her off of the probiotic and adding a little apple cider vinegar to her water, because I've heard that their bodies can stop producing enough acid if they haven't eaten for a long time. She definitely went a LONG time, hardly eating anything (over several days, she would only take a couple of beak-fulls of scrambled egg or feed mash), so that seems plausible. Anything I'm missing? Thanks in advance.
TL;DR: Hen recovering from a massive infection, on probiotics and supplied with grit in addition to her regular feed, passing stools at least half the time that look like they have just shot through her undigested (pic in comments), Help!
She was treated for the worms with some Wazine, and I treated her with Amtyl for a few days while I waited on some Baytril. I let her system have no antibiotics for a few days in between the Amtyl and the Baytril, but she hadn't taken much Amtyl, as it was in her water and she was only drinking about an ounce per day. Finally got the Baytril and gave her crop doses, and after 5 days, she was perked back up.
She's eating like a champ, drinking between 8 ounces and 12 ounces of water a day. The water currently has a probiotic in it, and has for the last several days. She has access to grit, as well. Her droppings no longer have the bad yellow color, and sometimes they are normal looking droppings, fully formed and with a white urate cap, but at least half the time she's passing very liquid stools and it looks like her feed is almost completely undigested. I'll post a photo in the comments.
Any suggestions for helping her digestive system normalize? I was thinking of taking her off of the probiotic and adding a little apple cider vinegar to her water, because I've heard that their bodies can stop producing enough acid if they haven't eaten for a long time. She definitely went a LONG time, hardly eating anything (over several days, she would only take a couple of beak-fulls of scrambled egg or feed mash), so that seems plausible. Anything I'm missing? Thanks in advance.
TL;DR: Hen recovering from a massive infection, on probiotics and supplied with grit in addition to her regular feed, passing stools at least half the time that look like they have just shot through her undigested (pic in comments), Help!
