1) What type of bird , age and weight - Brown leghorn pullet, approx 6 months? her comb just flopped over about 1 week ago
2) What is the behavior, exactly. - lethargic, not eating, some watery diarrhea
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? - 3-4 days
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms? - no
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma. no, but feathers on back near top of tail look ragged, no poo on her butt feathers
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation. I have CRD and just completed a treatment with denagard, sneezing and coughing gone from entire flock
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all. she has layena, grit and oyster shell available at all times and I spread corn in the morning
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc. some normal but small amount and some very watery with small bits of stool in it
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far? denagard tx done, gave a little yogurt the other day but she wont eat, syringe fed a small amount of water with ACV
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet? I have vet access
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use coop with attached run, wood shavings for bedding, fresh water daily, cleaned coop with dilute bleach solution almost 2 weeks ago
I suspect that she has sour crop from the meds, my other thought is she could be dehydrated if she didn't drink enough while the meds were in the water. She is not sneezing and shows no signs of the CRD and she did not have the CRD symptoms as bad as some of the flock mates. She is the lowest member of the flock (just thought that might be useful).
my 2nd thought is egg bound since I THINK she has not laid an egg yet. Hard to tell since I am gone most of the time to work and have a lot of white egg layers. I saw her in a nest box sunday, and she laid no egg, but I thought she could be practicing.
Her abdomen feels normal, but I think I need to do a rectal exam to be sure.
Just wondered if anyone had any suggestions on where to start with her. I hate to tube feed her yet....I don't like risking aspiration pneumonia until they are looking bad. She is very spunky and now that she is in the house she just looks freaked out.
2) What is the behavior, exactly. - lethargic, not eating, some watery diarrhea
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? - 3-4 days
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms? - no
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma. no, but feathers on back near top of tail look ragged, no poo on her butt feathers
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation. I have CRD and just completed a treatment with denagard, sneezing and coughing gone from entire flock
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all. she has layena, grit and oyster shell available at all times and I spread corn in the morning
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc. some normal but small amount and some very watery with small bits of stool in it
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far? denagard tx done, gave a little yogurt the other day but she wont eat, syringe fed a small amount of water with ACV
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet? I have vet access
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use coop with attached run, wood shavings for bedding, fresh water daily, cleaned coop with dilute bleach solution almost 2 weeks ago
I suspect that she has sour crop from the meds, my other thought is she could be dehydrated if she didn't drink enough while the meds were in the water. She is not sneezing and shows no signs of the CRD and she did not have the CRD symptoms as bad as some of the flock mates. She is the lowest member of the flock (just thought that might be useful).
my 2nd thought is egg bound since I THINK she has not laid an egg yet. Hard to tell since I am gone most of the time to work and have a lot of white egg layers. I saw her in a nest box sunday, and she laid no egg, but I thought she could be practicing.
Her abdomen feels normal, but I think I need to do a rectal exam to be sure.
Just wondered if anyone had any suggestions on where to start with her. I hate to tube feed her yet....I don't like risking aspiration pneumonia until they are looking bad. She is very spunky and now that she is in the house she just looks freaked out.
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