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I picked up a pullet at the show last Sunday and its seemed to go down hill from there.
It started off with a bit of Cocci due to stress, watery poop and a bit of blood so I put it on Corid treatment in the quarantine room.
The pullet has steadily gone down hill, but was eating and drinking just fine. It stayed fluffed, trying to hide under the heater, and always making this little chick peeping sound.
Well, now, today, I found the pullet laying on its side with its head twitching as I have seen many of my own hens do before they died. I rushed her inside and threw her on a heating bad and forced some water into her.
I was shocked to find she was nothing but skin and bone.
I made a slurry of apple, cheese, some milk, and an egg, and put that into her as well.
When she sleeps she falls onto her side, and when she is awake she sits upright on the heating pad.
She also smells very sweet, and has been pooping pink *she ate a strawberry this morning* but I have never heard of a chick smelling sweet?
Her crop is empty at the moment so her food is being digested.
Someone said it sounds like Merrick's. How? It has only been 4-5 days since the show? And the person who I got the chick from is someone I know who is very reputable with strong healthy birds who they test and so fourth. Names will not be mentioned.
And now that I have taken the time to write this she has promptly died next to me...Wonderful...
Well...
At least she was in quarantined and not exposed to my flock and I didnt have her long enough to get to attached.
Do you think it could have been Mericks or something else? And if something else, what could it have been?
It started off with a bit of Cocci due to stress, watery poop and a bit of blood so I put it on Corid treatment in the quarantine room.
The pullet has steadily gone down hill, but was eating and drinking just fine. It stayed fluffed, trying to hide under the heater, and always making this little chick peeping sound.
Well, now, today, I found the pullet laying on its side with its head twitching as I have seen many of my own hens do before they died. I rushed her inside and threw her on a heating bad and forced some water into her.
I was shocked to find she was nothing but skin and bone.
I made a slurry of apple, cheese, some milk, and an egg, and put that into her as well.
When she sleeps she falls onto her side, and when she is awake she sits upright on the heating pad.
She also smells very sweet, and has been pooping pink *she ate a strawberry this morning* but I have never heard of a chick smelling sweet?
Her crop is empty at the moment so her food is being digested.
Someone said it sounds like Merrick's. How? It has only been 4-5 days since the show? And the person who I got the chick from is someone I know who is very reputable with strong healthy birds who they test and so fourth. Names will not be mentioned.
And now that I have taken the time to write this she has promptly died next to me...Wonderful...
Well...
At least she was in quarantined and not exposed to my flock and I didnt have her long enough to get to attached.
Do you think it could have been Mericks or something else? And if something else, what could it have been?
