New layer trouble...two soft shell eggs and now...? Please help!

She looked a little brighter this morning when I came in. She perked up at the sight of the scrambled eggs, and pecked at them, but I don't think she ate very much. She did, however, drink tons of water.

I want to ask @Eggcessive about the dosage that the vet used. I'm going to check when I get home, but I believe she gave her three mL of Baytril not .3. Again, I will double-check the syringes when I get home, as they are the smaller ones, but I believe it was a lot of fluid. She had to look it up on her phone...hope she didn't make a mistake.
 
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She looked a little brighter this morning when I came in. She perked up at the sight of the scrambled eggs, and pecked at them, but I don't think she ate very much. She did, however, drink tons of water.

I wish I knew how to tag someone in this post, because I want to ask Eggcessive about the dosage that the vet used. I'm going to check when I get home, but I believe she gave her three mL of Baytril not .3. Again, I will double-check check the syringes when I get home, as they are the smaller ones, but I believe it was a lot of fluid.
@Eggcessive
Just put @ in front of name without any spaces.
 
Do you have the Baytril label? There are different strengths, such as 100 mg per ml, and 22mg per ml. I am more familiar with the oral version 10%. So that will make a different in the amount given. However 3 ml would be a huge amount to give in a single injection.
 
Here is an excellent link about giving medications down the right side of the back of the throat, which is exactly where you would insert a feeding tube:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

That large hole in the center of the picture of the open beak is of the airway or trachea, and it opens and closes as the chicken breathes. This is where you do not want to place the tube. Other than avoiding that opening, it is pretty easy to insert a tube and feed a chicken.

You can use a 12 inch length of aquarium air tubing from the Walmart fish supply aisle, if you take a lighter and melt to soften the end of the tubing that goes into the throat. That tubing is for very thin food, water, raw egg, yogurt, etc. It will connect to regular syringes from your feed store—usually 35 ml syringes are the largest they sell.

But a vet can sell you a proper larger feeding tube and a catheter-tip syringe (60 ml) that can tolerate thicker feed. You can use KayTee baby bird feed from Walmart or a pet store, or finely grind chicken feed and add water. Here is a video of tubing a bird by a single person:
 
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Catheter tip syringe
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