NEE HELP ASAP very sick chicken

[skjoller97]

I've been giving her sulmet. I feed her several times a day of high protein food and I have her a womer medicine yesterday her poop is just bright yellow and doesn't look like the one I posted earlier it isn't clear I'll put in a pic later

 

[casportpony]

What wormer medicine did you give her? Safeguard? Valbazen? Are you tubing her or are you just feeding her with a syringe? These things do make a huge difference. If she has blackhead she needs metronidazole, period.

-Kathy

 

[skjoller97]

It think the brand is rooster booster I'm puting food like in her mouth and she'll swallow it then I her her water with the sulmet using a syringe what is blackhead

 

[skjoller97]

She does not have blackhead

 

[casportpony]

She does not have blackhead

You asked for thoughts and I have given mine.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

FYI, for water she needs about 100ml per 2.2 pounds per day, maybe more. Not all at once of course.

-Kathy

Edited to add:
Sulmet is not the best choice for her.

 

[Eggcessive]

Bright yellow poops can sometimes be from E.coli infection which can be common in egg yolk peritonitis. It also can be common in blackhead, which as I posted earlier, is rare in chickens, but does exist. A vet can check for cecal worms in a stool sample, and those are the cause of blackhead in chickens. A vet also could give you Baytril or a good antibiotic if they think it is EYP and E.coli.

 

[casportpony]

Bright yellow poops can sometimes be from E.coli infection which can be common in egg yolk peritonitis. It also can be common in blackhead, which as I posted earlier, is rare in chickens, but does exist. A vet can check for cecal worms in a stool sample, and those are the cause of blackhead in chickens. A vet also could give you Baytril or a good antibiotic if they think it is EYP and E.coli.

You know I'm all for trips to the vets, fecals and gram stains, but I read somewhere that even when a bird has blackhead that very often evidence of cecal worms are not found, but I can't remember why.

Perhaps it's due to the damage done to the cecal pouches. Need to find that, I think it was a pretty good write up on it.

And you're right... it is rare in chickens, but it is a possibility. Had *many* peas and turkeys with it, but only two chickens with it.

-Kathy

 

[Eggcessive]

You know I'm all for trips to the vets, fecals and gram stains, but I read somewhere that even when a bird has blackhead that very often evidence of cecal worms are not found, but I can't remember why.

Perhaps it's due to the damage done to the cecal pouches. Need to find that, I think it was a pretty good write up on it.

And you're right... it is rare in chickens, but it is a possibility. Had *many* peas and turkeys with it, but only two chickens with it.

-Kathy

Yes Kathy, I know that you have had many cases. How else can a vet tell there is blackhead without finding the cecal worms? I thought that was how you diagnosed it. I haven't ever seen it in my chickens.

 

[dawg53]

Quote: Yeah, that's another reason why to keep a regular worming schedule. Blackhead is deadly in turkeys.
Infected cecal worms are host to the protozoa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhead_disease