Bibinko
In the Brooder
Hi BYC community - hoping someone out there has had a similar experience.
- I have a 1.5 yr old barred rock hen that has had an elevated white blood cell count over the last couple of months.
- She would sneeze and honk from time to time.
- At first, the WBC was around 8,000 and I gave her 2 rounds of Clavamox (vet reco).
- About the time of the checkup at the end of round two, she started to become lethargic and became disinterested in food, and suddenly had bad diarrhea.
- The post-Clavamox checkup (about 2 1/2 weeks ago) showed and even higher WBC (30,000), so we did a 10-day round of Baytril (again, vet reco), but the sneezing/honking got better.
- We started tube feeding her around the same time with probiotics mixed in (Bene Bac and B.O.B.).
- She still isn't eating much on her own besides the occasional bug (meal worms, wax worms, crickets) and kale that we put in front of her.
- The diarrhea has gotten better, but not 100% normal.
- Around the same time as the tube feeding, she started her first molt in earnest (losing lots of feathers).
- She is losing weight, but the lethargy has improved a bit (but she doesn't have much energy like the other hen).
- Vet checked for parasites and found nothing.
- Recently, she does the occasional "silent yawn".
- Another thing, she sometimes does what I can only describe as a small "internal cough" - like when you cough without opening your mouth.
Any thoughts?
- I have a 1.5 yr old barred rock hen that has had an elevated white blood cell count over the last couple of months.
- She would sneeze and honk from time to time.
- At first, the WBC was around 8,000 and I gave her 2 rounds of Clavamox (vet reco).
- About the time of the checkup at the end of round two, she started to become lethargic and became disinterested in food, and suddenly had bad diarrhea.
- The post-Clavamox checkup (about 2 1/2 weeks ago) showed and even higher WBC (30,000), so we did a 10-day round of Baytril (again, vet reco), but the sneezing/honking got better.
- We started tube feeding her around the same time with probiotics mixed in (Bene Bac and B.O.B.).
- She still isn't eating much on her own besides the occasional bug (meal worms, wax worms, crickets) and kale that we put in front of her.
- The diarrhea has gotten better, but not 100% normal.
- Around the same time as the tube feeding, she started her first molt in earnest (losing lots of feathers).
- She is losing weight, but the lethargy has improved a bit (but she doesn't have much energy like the other hen).
- Vet checked for parasites and found nothing.
- Recently, she does the occasional "silent yawn".
- Another thing, she sometimes does what I can only describe as a small "internal cough" - like when you cough without opening your mouth.
Any thoughts?