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MadChickens5
In the Brooder
- Oct 16, 2024
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I think I will try this torpedo method if she still won't take anything in the morning. Based on getting the calcium tablet into her pretty easily, I think this would work. Thank you.Chicken feed is best and you can mix a small amount with water to make it watery and get more fluids into her at the same time. But coaxing a sick chicken to eat, you may need to tempt with cooked egg, rinsed tuna or salmon, canned cat food, ground meat. Then back off and get back to the chicken feed. I had a hen who could not get to food or water for 5 weeks once, and she ate wet feed and some bits of the other things above, and lived.
There are many methods that people here use. Some tube (crop) feed using a baby lamb tube and syringe. Some make torpedos out of chicken feed, raw egg, and drops of water, and put tiny pieces into the beak. Some birds will take fluids from a spoon to the side of their beaks.