"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[PrimroseMom1]

Thank you for replying. Yes, I have seen her drink, she just quit eating. And, because she is isolated in a cage in the house I can see exactly what she is eating. Virtually nothing. In the beginning I could entice her with cooked egg, but she stopped even that. She acts like she is going to eat, but stops and doesn’t. I have not tube fed her. I was wondering if I could make a watery mush with her feed and syringe it down the side away from her windpipe like the attached photo.

 

[alwaystj9]

I would make it really watery. You are braver than I!
Do you have someone to help, that might take more than 2 hands.

 

[topochico225]

Thank you for replying. Yes, I have seen her drink, she just quit eating. And, because she is isolated in a cage in the house I can see exactly what she is eating. Virtually nothing. In the beginning I could entice her with cooked egg, but she stopped even that. She acts like she is going to eat, but stops and doesn’t. I have not tube fed her. I was wondering if I could make a watery mush with her feed and syringe it down the side away from her windpipe like the attached photo.

Have you tried raw egg yolk? That always convinces mine to eat something. The mush would be difficult- any chunks in the feed (like corn) will clog the syringe.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

I would make it really watery. You are braver than I!
Do you have someone to help, that might take more than 2 hands.

Thanks. I am only going to do it if I am confident it won’t get in her lungs. There was a small bit of black in her diarrhea just now which I am taking as a good sign.

 

[alwaystj9]

All the other chickens are okay?

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Yes. They are gobbling their food, laying, running around, noisy. And, my sick girl was with them a couple of days before I realized and removed her.

 

[alwaystj9]

Just weird that only one is sick and with no real clue.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

I agree. I’ve brought them back from illnesses. Once I had two birds I got together grown and they just dropped dead. Necropsy showed worm overload, one dropped dead and necropsy showed a twisted bowel. Brought back and lost a couple from sour crop. But, this one baffles me.

 

[jus10inla]

Did any of you ever check for bulk feed rate? I thought one of you were going To tri parish maybe. 3 50 lb bags of all flock a month is getting expensive.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Have you tried raw egg yolk? That always convinces mine to eat something. The mush would be difficult- any chunks in the feed (like corn) will clog the syringe.

Thank you. I have tried raw egg and cooked egg and cooked chicken, all of which are huge favorites. She will take a bite but That’s it or no bite at all. She is still eating watermelon and spinach. Small amounts, but it’s something. I think she ate a couple of dried soldier flues. Not sure, but they were moved. She is still alive.