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please help diagnose

emmym2019

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Oct 24, 2022
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i am newish to chickens and in the past couple days my 8 month old mosaic has been lethargic and having green runny droppings. Two days ago she became sluggish and not eating/drinking i separated her and gave her tylan because the vet recommended it, she began drinking/eating/had one normal looking poop/walking and running around for 1 1/2 days. Then tonight (she is still eating and drinking for the most part ) she is very droopy and weak, when i pick her up she curls up her legs and sleeps.
Her pupils are very dilated and a tiny bit of gray but still react to light and her legs work fine when she wants to walk.

any ideas i am very confused ? i will update in the morning.
 
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If she has green runny droppings and reacted well on tylan I would think of fowl cholera, a bacterial infection. It's also known to reappear when treatment stops and when the bird catches the bacteria it's there to stay. Are you still giving the antibiotics?
 
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Could she have gotten into something poisonous? I would get her drinking some electrolytes with vitamins, and offer some mushy wet chicken feed plus some scrambled egg. I would keep giving the Tylan that your vet ordered. I don’t know what is wrong, but I would not jump to any conclusions about fowl cholera. Does she lay eggs? How does her crop feel?
 
Could she have gotten into something poisonous? I would get her drinking some electrolytes with vitamins, and offer some mushy wet chicken feed plus some scrambled egg. I would keep giving the Tylan that your vet ordered. I don’t know what is wrong, but I would not jump to any conclusions about fowl cholera. Does she lay eggs? How does her crop feel?
She may have, maybe 4 days before she got sick i let her and a few others freerange for the fist time. I don't know what she would of gotten into though. she has vitamins ill give her electrolytes tomorrow morning.
she hasn't laid a egg that i have seen, crop feels normal.
 
Are you in the US?

Is she eating on her own?

On average a full grown hen should eat approximately 3/4 cup worth of pelleted or crumbled feed per day.
 
If she isn't eating she will die. Tube feeding could keep her alive but...it's a guessing game as to what caused her decline to begin with.
 

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