Hens are dropping like flies!

[casportpony]

http://cahfs.ucdavis.edu/

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Place your recently deceased in the fridge. *not* the freezere and take her to the lab tomorrow morning. By the end of tomorrow they will have a preliminary noecropsy report for you.

-Kathy

 

[MrsBrooke]

Your chickens have the "classic coccidia stance." If these were my chickens, I would stop the Sulmet and start Corid. Are they still drinking? Drinking is very important when medicine is in the water.

X2

MrsB

 

[enola]

How are they this morning?

 

[casadezorola]

The hen in the photo passed away in my arms last night; two total gone. 2 more in quarantine this morning. New symptom, my Wyandotte had lime green foam seeping from her vent and very labored breathing and lethargy.

I felt to see if she was egg bound and felt nothing.

Going out again now to pipette more medicated fluids in her and try and keep her comfortable.

Is it a coincidence that 3/4 affected birds are French Marans? Are they more successive to illnesses?

 

[casportpony]

The hen in the photo passed away in my arms last night; two total gone. 2 more in quarantine this morning. New symptom, my Wyandotte had lime green foam seeping from her vent and very labored breathing and lethargy.

I felt to see if she was egg bound and felt nothing.

Going out again now to pipette more medicated fluids in her and try and keep her comfortable.

Is it a coincidence that 3/4 affected birds are French Marans? Are they more successive to illnesses?

Are you going to take the deceased to the San Bernadino lab?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

If it's too far to drive, do this:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/799747/how-to-send-a-bird-for-a-necropsy-pictures

-Kathy

 

[ChickenCanoe]

The hen in the photo passed away in my arms last night; two total gone. 2 more in quarantine this morning. New symptom, my Wyandotte had lime green foam seeping from her vent and very labored breathing and lethargy.

I felt to see if she was egg bound and felt nothing.

...

Is it a coincidence that 3/4 affected birds are French Marans? Are they more successive to illnesses?

Not necessarily a coincidence. Not to disparage any one breed but some lines of many breeds can be more susceptible than others.
IMO your best bet is to send the sickest bird with the same symptoms to the lab for euthanasia and necropsy. That will give the most definitive results but at the very least send one.

 

[casportpony]

Don't forget to include this:
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/cahfs/local-assets/pdfs/StandardSubmissionForm_1-14.pdf

-kathy

 

[casportpony]

The hen in the photo passed away in my arms last night; two total gone. 2 more in quarantine this morning. New symptom, my Wyandotte had lime green foam seeping from her vent and very labored breathing and lethargy.


I felt to see if she was egg bound and felt nothing.


...


Is it a coincidence that 3/4 affected birds are French Marans? Are they more successive to illnesses?

Not necessarily a coincidence. Not to disparage any one breed but some lines of many breeds can be more susceptible than others.
IMO your best bet is to send the sickest bird with the same symptoms to the lab for euthanasia and necropsy. That will give the most definitive results but at the very least send one.

Free is limited to two per day. Of course they prefer live submissions, but they can also used the deceased as long as they have been properly stored.

-Kathy