Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Frankiegirl]

These girls are tough @Dreamz. I know it is scary…you’re not alone. If she is protected and in a sheltered spot, she should be fine. Keep an eye on her. Maybe give her some scrambled egg if she likes it. Also, is she labored in any way? Breathing, trying to lay, anything out of ordinary?
Just make sure she has fluid available and feed available and monitor from there. If she gets goopy again, you may want to do another soak. I’ve never heard of using dawn, but I’m sure you have good advice coming your way so I cannot comment on that. I’ve used Epsom salt because of the magnesium…. Helps move things along if she has something lodged.
Good luck and keep us posted

 

[Dreamzchaser]

My baby is so bored.

She has been just sitting most of the day. I had to go to Norton Shores and came back and took her out for a bit rolled in a towel and sat for a while with her and she had some oats but not many. She is not drinking nor eating while in there. I know she is tough but I am not. Tomorrow Hub said he will try to do the crate like Aart. I think I have 1 x 2 cattle wire cloth. I do not have any lettuce and offered her some celery and she will not try any. This is killing me. She has no difficulty breathing nor anything. Just not laying. Nothing under her abdomen. Besides the oozing I saw yesterday, and 4 days not an egg laid, she walked around perfectly fine. She foraged like the others and went about her business as usual as well as running towards me when she saw me by the kitchen door. Maybe I made it worse for her? I do not know. But I will do like Aart and get her back near her flock by tomorrow night. Just the thought of still today is so hard. Thank you guys. I am going to call my sister. She has no clue about chickens but maybe about yeast infections and what could be faster acting to help her to get well sooner. I do not know what I will do with you guys.

 

[Dreamzchaser]

@aart They have kind of loosey poop but nothing that I will think is bad. It gets runnier when they have watermelon for sure.

Yesterday when I checked her dirty butt she was oozing kind of whitish liquid. I thought first that an egg inside broke. So I want on line and it kind of directed me to vent gleet. as you can see on the video I posted. I did not had any epsom salt last night so I bathe her with dawn to clean the poop good. Gloves were a disaster because they broke with her nails. She could barely stand after the bath. I guess of the weight? So I used my blow dryer to get her as dry as possible to avoid a pneumonia or something. My house is always in teh 65-67 temp. After all that I put Miconazole nitrate cream around vent. They said to give her oraly a thinrd of the suppository that came with teh medicine. She will not eat it. I shoved it in her vent. It is 2%. I also saw in a video that any antifungal cream llike those for athlete feet would work. I do not have that. I did saw in walmart one that had 6.5 % but I do not remember what kind of antifulgal and I am not sure of a dose.
Her poop seems normal to me even a bit soft but she had cream in there since last night. I put some this morning before I left and in teh afternoon too. Hub is bringing some epsom salt this afternoon.

 

[aart]

She has no difficulty breathing nor anything. Just not laying. Nothing under her abdomen. Besides the oozing I saw yesterday, and 4 days not an egg laid, she walked around perfectly fine. She foraged like the others and went about her business as usual as well as running towards me when she saw me by the kitchen door.

She may be fine then.

Quit feeding all the 'treats'.... stick with a good chicken ration.

 

[Sally PB]

It gets runnier when they have watermelon for sure.

Some treats will give them runny poop. Cucumbers give my girls the runs. I can only give them a little bit of that, then lay off all treats but their food as a mash for a few days. Watermelon can do the same thing.

I think aart mentioned trying scrambled egg, to see if she'll eat that? It's a very good food for them when they don't want to eat much. Good protein, good fat for calories when they need them.

Hang in there!

 

[Dreamzchaser]

Sally, she did had teh scrambled 2 eggs I made her.

 

[Dreamzchaser]

She may be fine then.

Quit feeding all the 'treats'.... stick with a good chicken ration.

Yes, Sir!

 

[aart]

I think aart mentioned trying scrambled egg

Not me.

 

[Sally PB]

Ok, not aart. But scrambled egg is often suggested as a good food for ailing chickens.

And, anyway, aart recommends a LOT of good stuff.

 

[aart]

Ok, not aart. But scrambled egg is often suggested as a good food for ailing chickens.

It's probably OK, better than other things...
...I'm just mean giving them almost nothing but chicken chow.