Please help me!!! my hen is lethargic with undigested grains and yellow urates in poop

[casportpony]

Yes, ROMBENDAZOL F. But she don't have worms because today I took the results of the poop examination(it was for parasites) and the result was negative. What are crumbles? I don't undestand what it means.

That wormer was perfect!

Did he check her poop for bacteria or yeast?

In the US there are at least two types of crumbles, one is for baby chicks, the other is for laying hens. They look something like this:

 

[DorisBondo]

Yes, I feed her only crumbles ( I named them special food for chickens). She could digest crumbles, only grains, mealworms and some vegetables she couldn't digest. The vet said that he can't check it for bacteria or yest and I searched for many vets but the same answer... that they treat only cats and dogs....

 

[casportpony]

Can you get Cipro, Baytril, Clavamox or Augmentin?

-Kathy

 

[DorisBondo]

Yes, but she already took many antibiotics pills, even injections. I don't know that it would be useful.

 

[Nambroth]

I am hoping for the best. When my hen had clostridium bacteria (I don't know if this is what your hen has or not!) and I gave Flagyl, it took over a week to see improvement.

 

[DorisBondo]

I am hoping for the best. When my hen had clostridium bacteria (I don't know if this is what your hen has or not!) and I gave Flagyl, it took over a week to see improvement.

Thank you very much Nambroth! Now I'm more optimistic!! For sure I will continue with the treatment and will continue to feed her with crumbles, as suggested Kathy. Crumbles are almost the only feed she can digest. And today I gave her some tomatoe juice. Would you recomend me something else?

 

[casportpony]

Maybe @Nambroth can explain this better than I can... Flagyl (metronidazole) will only work on certain types of bacteria, the others I mentioned will treat bacteria like e.coli, which is a very real possibility, especially if your hen has blackhead. Flagyl (metronidazole) is *not* a broad-spectrum antibiotic, the others are. FWIW, vets have told me to use Baytril with (Flagyl) metronidazole, so I know that combo is okay. Cipro is in the same family as Baytril, so that's probably okay, too.


-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Yes, but she already took many antibiotics pills, even injections. I don't know that it would be useful.

But what drugs were they?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Just so we're clear, I'm not suggesting that you stop flagyl (metronidazole), I might even suggest giving it twice a day.

 

[DorisBondo]

I don't know what types of drugs were, Kathy. But I think if that could be a fungal infection, Flagyl can be useful on it too, because I used it too for candida.