Kentucky Henitentiary

[theoldchick]

I hope your chicken improves.

 

[Bechavez]

I don't see any blood, but I'd still keep the corid going. Is her poop very smelly?
Also, is she your only crested bird? That would be stressful, as it would make her a "target" for bullying.
I don't want to encourage you to overpopulate, but keeping a single crested with uncrested chickens is asking for trouble. I'd definitely keep 3 or more, rather than one, in a flock.

We have two of these Polish, but don't encourage my wife or we will have a dozen. The other Polish is doing pretty good, hanging with the Cochins most of the time. They are pretty chill birds.

We will keep up the Corrid and then also the apple cider vinegar + water syringe feedings. We will also continue to massage the crop, but if it still feels squishy in a few days I heard you can get an anti-fungal to help this.

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

Welcome to the coop! I use the Forums and Articles tabs at the top of the page to do research. You can get lost for hours. It's nice to know you are minutes away from getting help with questions and emergencies! I always check in the "What's New" section as well at the top of this page. This way I can read how I may have a similar question or help give some advice.

 

[janiedoe]

We have two of these Polish, but don't encourage my wife or we will have a dozen. The other Polish is doing pretty good, hanging with the Cochins most of the time. They are pretty chill birds.

We will keep up the Corrid and then also the apple cider vinegar + water syringe feedings. We will also continue to massage the crop, but if it still feels squishy in a few days I heard you can get an anti-fungal to help this.

I would not use apple cider vinegar while giving the corid. I also would not massage her crop.
But I'm no expert. I'll tag some experts though.
@azygous @Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock

 

[Kiki]

I know we're all probably throwing a lot of information at you very quickly, but I don't recommend you keeping this bird by itself because you might actually have more trouble trying to integrate it back into the flock after having it removed for days.

 

[Kiki]

This girl is very lethargic and just stands still, we fed her some water with apple cider vinegar with a syringe and now my wife is thinking that it might be sour crop. The crop feels squishy and my wife says that if you massage it upwards you can smell a bad smell, I don't know what chicken breath smells like but she's doing the doctoring here, I'm just trying to give ideas!

We have the bird separated from the others and have it's brooder keeping some warmth for her, she just stands there and has her eyes closed most of the time. Poor thing.

Please don't syringe anything in to its mouth. I'm not saying that you weren't extremely careful but eight times out of 10 people who syringe stuff in the throat end up killing their bird because one drop down the wrong pipe will slowly kill it.
It is that easy to force stuff down the wrong way in the chicks mouth.

AVC isn't going to do a thing. Corid water is best for now.

Do you have the liquid or the powder Corid?

 

[Bechavez]

I would not use apple cider vinegar while giving the corid. I also would not massage her crop.
But I'm no expert. I'll tag some experts though.
@azygous @Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock

Great thank!

 

[Bechavez]

Please don't syringe anything in to its mouth. I'm not saying that you weren't extremely careful but eight times out of 10 people who syringe stuff in the throat end up killing their bird because one drop down the wrong pipe will slowly kill it.
It is that easy to force stuff down the wrong way in the chicks mouth.

AVC isn't going to do a thing. Corid water is best for now.

Do you have the liquid or the powder Corid?

Liquid

 

[Blue Raptor]

Hey folks, my wife and I (mostly my wife) have dove into the chicken raising scene. Last year we (she) ordered 25 various breeds, Buff Orpingtons, Delaware, Blue Andalusian, Buff Laced Polish, Cochins, Brown Leghorn and Bielefelders. Anyways, we took delivery of 28, and we lost 3 after the first week or so . But I converted a pony stall in our barn into a coop and attached a 30ft run to it and it's working out pretty nicely so far.

We have one sick bird currently, happened a day after we moved them to the coop, it's one of the Polish but we used some advice we read here and isolated her. They are all about 9 weeks old now, and because we got 3 extra chickens who were not sex'd, we ended up with two Delaware roosters and one Blue Andalusian rooster.

We are looking to try and treat the one sick bird with Valbazen based on the symptoms but we are brand new to this so we really don't know.

This is the thread we ended up on: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/sick-hen-lethargic-stands-w-eyes-closed.730700/page-2

Wish us luck and we look forward to sharing this experience with this group!

-The Kentucky Henitentiary

Welcome to BYC!!

 

[TwoCrows]

Great thank!

You mentioned her crop is squishy? She could have eaten some bedding, in which case you will just have to wait for it to pass. Make sure she is eating, hungry birds or those bullied away from feeders will eat what ever is around them. If you have any Gerber baby food around, you might squeeze a bit of this on her tongue for calories.