Not eating and is all bones.

[DiYMama540]

Are there any poisonous plants around their area she could have gotten? Screws, nuts, bolts she could have ingested?
The first guess with waterfowl is always toxin, or they ate something they shouldn't have. Hope that's not the case with your girl! She sounds like a tough one!

 

[#lovemychickens]

We don’t have any poisonous plants and I don’t think there are any screw or nails etc laying around. The only other thing I can think of is about two weeks ago we ended up having some warmer weather and rain which melted some of the snow and they ended up having some standing water in their outside run.. I’m sure she drank that and it has the run off of their run.. although we try to keep it clean as much as possible, it’s almost impossible to get every speck of chicken poop. Could that cause any of her symptoms?

 

[DiYMama540]

Anything is possible I guess, but I wouldn't think so...I've caught my girls drinking from some pretty gnarly puddles and it's never caused an issue.

 

[#lovemychickens]

I wish I had a vet near me that treated chickens! Would it be beneficial if I let her be by the other chickens or not since I don’t know what it is? Just wondering since she’s been alone without her siblings for almost two weeks.. could they get depressed and act like this?

 

[Eggcessive]

I would put her back inside the coop with others. Be prepared to put her in a wire dog crate, since they may try to hurt her. That will also make it easier to feed her separately and know how much she is eating. Spend some time with them to watch what they do. It might even be better to spend several days bringing her out there, and supervising some free ranging time. I don’t know your location or how cold it is, but that may also affect how quickly she can go back. If she is not eating, or drinking, she may just need visits everyday, and kept inside with you. It isn’t possible to save a chicken with a bad problem, such as cancer or some virus that causes wasting away. You could try an antibiotic on her, but hard to know if that would help or not. You could learn to tube feed her 2-3 times a day to get some food into her. That might help.

 

[#lovemychickens]

I tried to tube feed her yesterday and for being sick she sure does still have some spunk in her. I didn’t get too far and will have to have my daughter help me when she gets home today. I like the idea of visits! It’s a bit cold here so I don’t think I can leave her out all day. Thank you everyone for your advice and help on this!

 

[Eggcessive]

Do you need info on tube feeding?

 

[#lovemychickens]

I received a video earlier in this thread and have watched it several times. I don’t have the parrot food so took her chicken feed soaked in water with a little vegetable oil and tried to get it to go through a small tube that we found at a hardware store. I’m so out of my element!

 

[chicken danz]

If the inside of her mouth is pale pink that is indicative of worms usually. Paleness indicates anemia.

 

[#lovemychickens]

I used Ivermectin to worm her about a week and a half ago. Should I use something else?