Lethargic Hen

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I would up her Safeguard to 0.5ml for five days.

Pictures from the Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual:

Capillary worms - Ignore the part about ivermectin as a treatment... it doesn't work anymore.




-Kathy
 
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The amount of Safeguard you're giving is 20mg/kg, which *might* treat capillary worms if given five days in a row, but I haven't seen any studies to back that up.

-Kathy.
 
One of mine recently got lethargic and very skinny. She was wormed. I brought her in and put Tylan and Sulfadimethoxine in her water for 5 days and now she's normal and eating like a hog. I think Corid and Tylan would be good too.ii

I had done a ton of reading and came across articles (Poultry World) that Necrotic entiritis has become a world wide problem since countries stopped putting antibiotics in their feed. Seems that aside from chicks who die from it (Clostridium), it can also live in a chicken and make them unthrifty but not kill them. Usually cocci can play a role in it as well. And e. coli.

I don't know if it will help you. I now have 7 other skinny chickens on those meds for 5 days. I'm just so tired of skinny chickens!!! And there's no reason for it , so I'm grasping.
 
I hope your skinny chickens get well like your other one. Our other 7 have been fine and show no signs of distress at this time.

Today her crop hasn't emptied completely but has gone down. So far we have tried rice, scrambled egg and layer crumbles (made into mush with pedialyte) and she has not been interested in eating, but I feel that is because her crop isn't emptying as normal. She had 20cc of pedialyte with 125mg amoxicillin at 11:00 this AM and spit just a little back up. We have offered pedialyte sips throughout the day. Her crop at 12:30 and 3:30 her crop still felt full but felt better (not empty) around 6:00 this evening. We only 10cc pedialyte, 125mg amoxicillin and 0.5ml Safeguard to make sure it is digested before we give her more. She still chats with me when I go in and there were a few times that she stood and her right foot was placed correctly without the toes curling under. Still hoping she will pull through. I appreciate everyone's help and Kathy, I am thankful that you confirmed the meds we are using will work.
 
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for en empty crop in the morning. Have you read the bit on the back of the Kaytee container about using adding infant applesauce for slow crop?

-Kathy
 
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I had not seen that on the container until you mentioned it! Good to know. We will add that to the grocery list! Thank you!!!
 

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