No, do no feed eggs back. By doing so you're adding a small dosage of the wormer back into their system instead of letting it clear out. It sucks, but unfortunately that's how it goes.
This most definitely was not a maggot. I can say with certainty it was not a maggot. When she first started appearing to be sick, flystrike was one of the first things I checked for. I didn't even know that was a thing until a month or 2 ago, and that is one thing I always check for when I check for mites and lice on my chickens. After learning about flystrike, that has been one of my biggest fears for my chickens, and with how bad flies have been I try to stay on top of checking them in hopes if they do get that, I can hopefully catch it early and make it less miserable for them. I also do have several fly traps throughout my yard to try and lure flies away from my chickens.
I don't mind tossing the eggs, as long as she gets better I don't care if she ever lays another egg. I love all of my chickens, but she has a special place in my heart. I just want her to get better.
I wanted to wait until today to post any update to make sure there really is improvement. Thurs evening I started the deworm medicine and on Friday she was a tiny bit more active, it appeared as though a small bit of color was back in her comb and wattles, and she was eating bugs, chasing and eating them, but was refusing her regular feed, and that afternoon she had ran across their run (prior to that she wouldn't run anywhere just walk). Today she has been eating feed, was a bit more active and ran a few times, that I have seen, after she runs she does seem weak and have to lay down a bit, and she has been walking around foraging more then she has been. Her comb and wattles are still pale but they have more color then they did prior to starting the deworm medicine, so I'm thinking it may take some time for her to get color all the way back as well as to have more energy. Also, today she was jumping up on top of stuff, whereas before she wouldn't even do that.
I'm glad she's improving a little each day.
I didn't know that, about not eating well causing green poop. I had looked it up and the most common answer I got was worms.
She ended up not improving anymore and went back to isolating herself, not eating, and just staying in one place. I was thinking that she wouldn't make it and that she was suffering to much, because it was the worse that I have seen her. Then the other day when I had went to check on them before they went to roost she had a new symptom, stretching out her neck, opening and closing her mouth, and the first thing I thought was impacted crop, so I gave her some olive oil. The next morning it was like the best i have seen her since she got sick, she spent like 15 minutes at the feeder, she was still a bit weak but overall definitely in so much better condition. The day after that, her comb and wattle color came back, and still doing so much better. Today is day 3 of her being better and it's as if she was never sick to begin with, today she is in just as good of health if not better then before she started to get sick.
That's good news!
Just want to give another update since it's been a few weeks since the last one. She is still doing really good, no signs of being weak/sick, and is back to herself. She is finally back to chatting with me everytime she sees me, and following me around.
