MaeM
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- Dec 9, 2020
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Hello. As some of you know, I had to leave home. Today I went to visit my chickens and one of them is all puffed up, lethargic, drinks some water but ate just a few treats and only when I hand fed her insistently.
Her current caretaker doesn't know what happened. I checked the chicken and found her butt dirty and it smelled like rotten egg so my guess is that she had a bad egg and had some yolk leaking from her butt, but no one saw it.
This wouldn't be the first time this happens with this hen but I guess that it's the first time it took so long for her to get treatment because no one noticed until now she looks very sick.
She has contractions in her butt. I gave her a warm bath and she seemed to find some relief (she looked relaxed) but nothing came out of her.
I gave her enrofloxacin because that's the only antibiotic I currently have in her first aid kit.
I can't take her to the vet until Saturday and only if an Uber decides to help me out.
What else can I do? I'm kind of desperate because she is my hen but I'm not living with her anymore and her "babysitter" is not experienced with chickens. I told her she must give her enrofloxacin every 12 hours but...you know how it is when you leave your chickens in charge of someone else...
Her current caretaker doesn't know what happened. I checked the chicken and found her butt dirty and it smelled like rotten egg so my guess is that she had a bad egg and had some yolk leaking from her butt, but no one saw it.
This wouldn't be the first time this happens with this hen but I guess that it's the first time it took so long for her to get treatment because no one noticed until now she looks very sick.
She has contractions in her butt. I gave her a warm bath and she seemed to find some relief (she looked relaxed) but nothing came out of her.
I gave her enrofloxacin because that's the only antibiotic I currently have in her first aid kit.
I can't take her to the vet until Saturday and only if an Uber decides to help me out.
What else can I do? I'm kind of desperate because she is my hen but I'm not living with her anymore and her "babysitter" is not experienced with chickens. I told her she must give her enrofloxacin every 12 hours but...you know how it is when you leave your chickens in charge of someone else...
