Hens Crop Not Empting at Night Please help

[pwand]

FWIW, When I get a sick one, I always do the following:

1) Thorough exam, this often includes an internal exam to check for eggs or other blockages.
2) Dust with poultry dust for mites/lice, even if I can't see any.
3) Weigh daily on digital kitchen scale and record weights.
4) De-worm w/Safeguard for Goats/Cattle (Fenbendazole 100mg/ml) 50mg/kg by mouth.
5) If losing weight, tube feed ringers/pedialyte, then baby bird food with ringers or Pedialyte
6) If they are depressed, they are put in a warm, quiet place indoors with water and water.
7) Inspect poop.
8) Decide to give antibiotics or not.

If I have one that looks like it's about to die, it gets Baytril 15mg/kg for 5 days.

The antibiotics that get the most use here are Metronidazole, Baytril and Clavamox, but that's because I have young peafowl, turkeys and the dreaded disease, blackhead.

I guess if I were in your shoes and was pretty sure I was dealing with a fungal infection and not a bacterial infection, I would treat with the Nystatin, but I would treat orally to ensure proper dosing.

For me, weighing daily has been very helpful, since any weight loss is a cause for concern.

Wish I had some experience in treating fungal infections, but I don't.

Great info casportpony. I have done most of these, haven't checked her vent. She was laying during this Problem until now for guessing 5 days back. Treated her with worm with safeguard. Did a mite dusting, new chickens, ready to lay. She did have worms, I found cecal worms when I put her poop in the toilet. Done a second dose 10 days later. When I got them, they thought everything was edible, including grit, oyster shells, hay. I never considered that they would probably never had these before and was not ready for treats. Probably no grit in the gizzard. I have always raised my hens, thought I would do this differently.

 

[shell3]

as far as ive read the nystatin will kill the probiotics so i wouldnt give that til other meds are finished . its to replace the natural flora in the gut that the antibiotics destroy. you dont want to be making a harder environment for the nystatin.

 

[shell3]

casportpony- no it wasnt metronidozole it was called flagyl and i think the vet was just covering all bases. he kept her on it for ages but the last two prescriptions he gave i still have in the cupboard. i didnt see the point of them myself so didnt give them. i saw no sign of bacterial infection only fungal so i stuck with just nystatin however in the begining she had both and think the first vet i took her to did give metronidazole but ive moved her since. i used the flagyl after she vomited foam because she spluttered something awful,i thought she was close to death so just used everything i had. also i thought it would prevent a respitory infection that could have been brought on by inhaling particles of vomit. i dont know for sure if it would it just made sense in my mind. do you think it would prevent respitory infection? sorry for my ignorance but whats a vet tech? is it a vet in training?

 

[casportpony]

Shell3,

Metronidazole is generic Flagyl and it can be purchased otc here in the US as Fish-Zole (250mg tablets) for tropical fish.

Not sure how helpful it would be for URI's...

A vet tech is a veterinary technician and their duties can vary. Lots of vet tech schools here.

 

[casportpony]

Vet tech link:
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/veterinary-technologists-and-technicians.htm

 

[shell3]

oh thanks ill check out the link
ah so it is metronidozole! one and the same! guess thats where i got confused! dosnt always take much! lol

 

[shell3]

oh cool great link and what a fab job. think youd be called a rvn here it sounds the same. thats what id love to do! maybe one day when kids are in full time education and i have time to myself ill look into it. i was a vet receptionist years ago for a 24hr emergency hospital .i learnt a lot, loved the job cos i used to get roped in to help in the hospital. watched lots of operations and got given most of the handrearing of babies which i loved! squirrels baby birds kittens ect.think a job like that would complete me. lucky you well skill not luck! but you know what i mean x

 

[casportpony]

Lucky me? Or someone else? I also get confused easily... You don't think I'm a vet tech, do you? Sorry if I gave anyone that impression. I just have lots of veterinary books because I got tired of looking for stuff on the web. Not a vet or tech, lol.

 

[casportpony]

However, like you, I also wanted to be a vet, but life happened, lol. And I've also thought about going back to school and becoming a tech, but I don't think I'd have the energy for it now.

 

[pwand]

How many mg/ml is your Nystatin? When I get back from the store, I'll see if I can find some info in one of my vet books on treating sour crop and I'll take a picture of the Nystatin page from Plumb's Drug Handbook.

Sorry I missed your post,
he prescribed 20ml of "Pms-Nystatin 100,000u/ml. ". Thanks