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This was my last post on this hen: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=558291 a week ago.
Since that day when I did the ivermectin and started abx she improved remarkably, to the point of chasing a grasshopper in her pen. She was clucking and scratching and jumping out of her box. I gave her 1/2 cc penn procaine every other day three times.
and now has gone slowly downhill again or at least isn't continuing to improve. She wants to eat but it's like she can't, she tries and easily gives up. She has these little outbursts of energy where she's bright and busy and eats and will even take a drink or two of water but it's like the effort wears her out and she shuts her eyes and droops again. I can't figure out what causes either one-she's always interested in food, takes a couple bites and quits. She likes watery things so I've been making her mashes and giving her things like tomatoes/bananas/watermelon because she will eat those. Bread crumbs were a big hit too. Syringing sugar water into her seems to help a lot. I'm sure she's totally dehydrated but she's horrible to force water down, hence the watery food.
She wants to eat and always is looking for food-why won't she eat and eat? I have to wake her up to eat, then she has a few bites and conks out again. Diarrhea is gone, poops are normal.
Now her beak has grown a lot since she got sick and look overgrown, should I trim it? any exertion wipes her out.
She's had a head tilt the whole time-my mom thought she was blind for a while but she does see. Wincy eyes, head flops. and then the twitching tilting that I got on this video. What the heck? So I also video'ed a shot down her mouth and please forgive, it's horrible but gives a glimpse. When I have someone here to hold her I can get a better picture-as it was I had to hold the camera under my chin and arrange the shot. But I looked and saw clearly down her trach and no other obstructions, looked normal to me?
The pale washed-out yellow color was her first symptom...she's been ill for a month or so now. Got through the lice, got wormed, had abx, now she's thin, not gaining, and just generally half dead.
I've had this chicken (who now goes by the name Goner) in the house for a month, feeding her by hand several times a day. I'm going a little bonkers but hate to give up, especially when she has bursts of normalcy. The whole time I've been typing this she's been pecking away at that plate of tomatoes.
Any ideas?
I think anyone should be able to see these:
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y251/steele4/8-24-2011/
Since that day when I did the ivermectin and started abx she improved remarkably, to the point of chasing a grasshopper in her pen. She was clucking and scratching and jumping out of her box. I gave her 1/2 cc penn procaine every other day three times.
and now has gone slowly downhill again or at least isn't continuing to improve. She wants to eat but it's like she can't, she tries and easily gives up. She has these little outbursts of energy where she's bright and busy and eats and will even take a drink or two of water but it's like the effort wears her out and she shuts her eyes and droops again. I can't figure out what causes either one-she's always interested in food, takes a couple bites and quits. She likes watery things so I've been making her mashes and giving her things like tomatoes/bananas/watermelon because she will eat those. Bread crumbs were a big hit too. Syringing sugar water into her seems to help a lot. I'm sure she's totally dehydrated but she's horrible to force water down, hence the watery food.
She wants to eat and always is looking for food-why won't she eat and eat? I have to wake her up to eat, then she has a few bites and conks out again. Diarrhea is gone, poops are normal.
Now her beak has grown a lot since she got sick and look overgrown, should I trim it? any exertion wipes her out.
She's had a head tilt the whole time-my mom thought she was blind for a while but she does see. Wincy eyes, head flops. and then the twitching tilting that I got on this video. What the heck? So I also video'ed a shot down her mouth and please forgive, it's horrible but gives a glimpse. When I have someone here to hold her I can get a better picture-as it was I had to hold the camera under my chin and arrange the shot. But I looked and saw clearly down her trach and no other obstructions, looked normal to me?
The pale washed-out yellow color was her first symptom...she's been ill for a month or so now. Got through the lice, got wormed, had abx, now she's thin, not gaining, and just generally half dead.
I've had this chicken (who now goes by the name Goner) in the house for a month, feeding her by hand several times a day. I'm going a little bonkers but hate to give up, especially when she has bursts of normalcy. The whole time I've been typing this she's been pecking away at that plate of tomatoes.
Any ideas?
I think anyone should be able to see these:
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y251/steele4/8-24-2011/
