PLEASE HELP ASAP! CHICKEN REALLY SICK!!!!!! Looks tired!

[kyeschicks]

I found this on yahoo answers I wanted to help but didn't know the answer so i knew where to go Back Yard Chickens =]

this is what he/she post....


"CHICKEN HELP PLEASE!!!!?


I have a chicken, who seems to be very tired all the time. Shes had diarrhoea, and just stands or sits all the time. And has white spots on her ears.
Help please!?"

Sorry everyone I couldn't give you more information because she never replied with more info. I did ask her for more but she never replied. Well today she told me that the chicken was put down.

 

[threehorses]

Can you please post our link there? There's no information for us to help them.

 

[CrazyChickMom]

Is it eating or drinking? How old is it?

 

[kyeschicks]

Quote:
wrong one

 

[EmilyMay <3]

Hi, I was the one that asked the question on yahoo!
She is eating and drinking (thank god) and she is about a year and a half old. She's a rhode island red.
I am very worried and dont know whats wrong with her, please help ASAP!

 

[dlhunicorn]

Those symptoms could be any number of things and without more info I am afraid it is just a stab in the dark... however you did mention some "spots" on her ears and that might (MIGHT) be indicative of of POX > can you post a pic? > if not then on the blue bar at the top of your page use the SEARCH button and type in POX as the keyword and search the EMERGENCY thread > there are LOTS of posts with lots of pics (early pox looks different than advanced) IF it is pox it is caused by mosquitoes and you can read all about it in the many posts that a search will bring up (there are lots of pics too )

 

[EmilyMay <3]

What more information do you need?
Can she die from this illness?

 

[threehorses]

What we need is a whole lot of info. /wink Here we go:

What she's being fed - exactly. (Example: laying pellets, laying crumbles, any supplements, any grains and what type they are, etc)
How and where she's being kept (In a pen, In a pen with a run, in a barn, free range, etc)
What her poops look like exactly (solid with urates on top, runny brown pudding, green diarrhea, green frothy diarrhea, white and clear diarrhea, orange/rusty/brown loose)
Is she being kept with other birds? Have any recently been introduced?
Are you on city water or well water?
Is there any access to ponds/puddles/ditches?
Is she showing any difficulty breathing?
Have you checked her skin throughly, especially around the vent area, for any nearly-microscopic parasites like mites, lice?
Has she been bullied?
When was the last time she was wormed, and with what?

The first thing you need to do is make sure she keeps nourished and hydrated. I wouldn't change her basic diet at this point until you hear from us: changes in diet stress a bird, and she's already stressed with something.

What you can do is add electrolytes/vitamins to her water if you want. You could alternately add pedialyte or a bit of gatorade to her water IF she'll still drink it with that in it. If she's eating, make sure that the food continues to leave the crop. Any time a bird is anything other than 100%, I do make the change of removing any solid foods from their diet and leaving only the easily digested food (in other words take away grains and greens, continue with pellets, possibly pellets ground to a crumble, and in a very ill bird crumbles that are wetted with water).

Bird's digestive systems depend on two things: grits to break down what they can't mechanically (as they don't have teeth nor do they have an acidic stomach), and bacteria to break down what the gizzard didn't break down. In an ill bird, the bacteria are nearly always effected and thus the whole digestive process slows down. So stressed birds are more likely to get backed up crops. That's why I only give foods that break down into small particles in water - they're more likely to move through the system and get absorbed.

This is a starter set of questions. Answer these, and we can hopefully answer yours.

 

[EmilyMay <3]

She got put down this morning after we took her to the vets, thanks for your help .

The vet didnt know what was wrong... x

 

[beakkeeper]

Sorry!

and welcome to BYC

Maybe next time we'll be able to save your chick! Don't feel too bad about it.