Please Help, So Confused

[Chickeemariee]

Thank you for this!

You may want to try tube feeding her. You can use a 12-15 inch piece of aquarium air tubing or oxygen tubing. Heat the end that goes into the beak with a lighter and let it cool to smooth sharp edge. Those will connect to a 35 ml syringe from the feed store. This can be used for fluids, liquid egg, yogurt etc. For KayTee baby bird feed or fine ground chicken feed mixed with a lot of water, use a 14-16 French tube below. You may also get a baby lamb feeding tube set from Amazon here:
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i have a long syringe, could that work? I don’t live somewhere where we have a pet store with those kinds of things & shipping can take a week +. Do you think this all could be from molt then maybe a little extra from the worms & lice? I don’t see any more worms or lice for the past few days but that’s when she really started deteriorating

 

[Perris]

What would you guys do?

I would stand back and stop trying to make her better. The first rule of medicine is Do no harm.

I know you are trying to help, and this is going to hurt, but you should be aware that you may be making it worse. She got more sluggish AFTER you wormed her. Since then, you've applied more chemicals for ectoparasites, and messed with her body chemistry further via an electrolyte solution (ready made, or did you make it? are you sure you mixed it and administered it correctly?). She has not improved as a result of these actions, but got worse.

Unless you really know what you are doing, I would leave her alone to either recover or die. 'Putting her out of her misery' is done to relieve the keeper rather than the animal, usually, although no-one admits it.

 

[Chickeemariee]

I would stand back and stop trying to make her better. The first rule of medicine is Do no harm.

I know you are trying to help, and this is going to hurt, but you should be aware that you may be making it worse. She got more sluggish AFTER you wormed her. Since then, you've applied more chemicals for ectoparasites, and messed with her body chemistry further via an electrolyte solution (ready made, or did you make it? are you sure you mixed it and administered it correctly?). She has not improved as a result of these actions, but got worse.

Unless you really know what you are doing, I would leave her alone to either recover or die. 'Putting her out of her misery' is done to relieve the keeper rather than the animal, usually, although no-one admits it.

Genuinely curious here, would you have just left the worms & lice then? Those things I knew 100% what I was doing & the electrolyte mix I got from my chicken guru who gave me dosing and showed me how to drop on the beak since I didn’t have another person to hold her and correctly administer down her throat. The egg yolk I did the same. Shes currently gone otherwise I would have her come looks/help administer things.

While I agree with a lot of what you’re saying I think putting animals down is 100% for the animal. Their pain is all encompassing, they don’t have pain killers or even things like tv to distract them from that. If it’s heal able I’m always down to work for it but at a certain point I think it’s cruel to keep a suffering animal alive. But that’s just my opinion from years of various animals and I don’t know if we’ll ever know since none of them can tell us their side.

 

[Perris]

In this case, I think your hen is just going through an intense moult, and your interventions are doing more harm than good. Your intentions are good, but it's not helping. You do not know she is in pain (when you are not forcing something on her, at least).

She is suffering with the moult, but every bird does, every year - it is a natural process and you cannot, and should not be trying to, 'fix' it. Just leave her alone, in a safe clean place, with good real food, plenty of fresh water, and she will probably get through this in a couple of months, and return to being one of your best hens.