Not eating, no drinking, staring

[Buggly]

1. Pluma has been like this for 3 days now. She suddenly went quiet, I can even pick her up when I have never been able to touch her. The looks good other than staring at nothing in particular, and occasionally opening her mouth and breathing through the beak. Then she breaths normally. She is not moving a lot, only in she really needs. We had a really strong heat a few days ago, when this started so I thought it might have been that, but now it has been cool for over 2 days and still the same. She is not eating nor drinking on her own. I have been feeling her water y yogurt with a syringe when she opens her beak. Yesterday she had some food. Maybe 2 mouth full and then she stops. It just looks like she sees it and ears it by instinct and the she looses interest. But unfortunately she is not eating enough. She can walk although not normally and when the other chiches push her, she almost falls over.
   I have dusted her for mites but I don't know what else to do. It almost looks like she had a stroke??? Or is it time for her? She is a Mexican breed that lays green eggs and she is 4 years old. Poop is green and white, looks normal.
   Any suggestions?

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Where is she laying about? Out in the run or in the nest box?

 

[PD-Riverman]

Is her weight good? Wondering if she is wormy?? If so that would need to be taken care of. At her age many things could be wrong? I would give her tylan50 for a few days and give her a warm feed gravy in a syringe(without the needle) maybe 3 times a day. I make this gravy by dissolving chick feed in warm water---kinda wet enough I can draw the "gravy" into a syringe them slowly squeeze some in the back corner of her mouth allowing her to swallow it. Good Luck

 

[Buggly]

She stays wherever I put her. She goes to bed on her own and perches all night, but during the day she will stay wherever you leave her.

 

[Buggly]

Thank you do much for the suggestions. I cannot see any worms in her poop. I thought this too and she has had a few mouthful of the medicine-food that I give them every so often for the warms.(I don't know the name of it) I think that the pureed food with the syringe is a brilliant idea. I am going to try that right now.

 

[Birdinhand]

is it possible she is stuck in a broody trance, sometimes broodiness comes on sideways. see any large broody poops or no longer laying eggs? any growling?

 

[PD-Riverman]

Thank you do much for the suggestions. I cannot see any worms in her poop. I thought this too and she has had a few mouthful of the medicine-food that I give them every so often for the warms.(I don't know the name of it) I think that the pureed food with the syringe is a brilliant idea. I am going to try that right now.

I do not know what you have given her for worms, but if she is real light for her size---if her breast is real bony---she is probably real wormy. The "pureed" food needs to be food that about completely dissolves in water---that's why I use chick feed---good protein and dissolves good.

 

[Buggly]

The food I gave her is called flubenvet. She has always been this size, she does not feel bony. I believe the flubenvet will dissolve nicely in warm water, but I can also get her some chicks feed and try with that too.

 

[Buggly]

is it possible she is stuck in a broody trance, sometimes broodiness comes on sideways. see any large broody poops or no longer laying eggs? any growling?

She has very small poops, as she is not eating much. I don't think is broodiness, she is not sitting, she prefers to stand

 

[Buggly]

Thank you very much for your help. I got pluma out of the coop today as she did not finish it on her own. I stoke her and then she ate a bit of flubenvet on her own I have realised that if I stroke her she cones back to reality and she eats a little bit. Then she stops and stares. Then i stroke again and she eats and stops and stares...
I then took her out to the backyard with the other hens. I fed them yogurt and I was thinking of feeding pluma pureed flubenvet but she actually made a move of 5 steps and ate 1 mouthful of yogurt! That us an improvement! But that was it, now she is staring at the empty yogurt bowl.
I also discovered a worm in the others hen poop. I am not sure who it belongs to, but definitely a worm. Possibly a roundworm. About 2.5cm.
I must not have been regular giving them flubenvet. I have now made a calendar and this should not happen again.
If this was the problem, how long should I expect to wait until she is better? Will the medicine kill the worms and she will poop then out?