- Apr 25, 2014
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On Friday my chicken Clementine began making this strange sound like a long cough and she would stretch her neck when she did it. She had no other symptoms and was her typical perky self. Saturday afternoon I discovered two poops that had round worm in them. I frantically went to the store (early Saturday PM) and bought wazine and put it in their water. Then I started researching what Clementine might have and thought this might be gapeworm since she did stretch her neck when she did the strange cough sound.
I took a qtip and swabbed her throat and saw nothing. It came out clean. Okay... Maybe not gapeworm....
Sunday morning I woke up really early to check on Clementine and found that Honey, my buff orp, was GURGLING!!!!! She sounded miserable. I took Clementine and Honey to the EMERGENCY vet because it really sounded THAT bad and they put her in oxygen for a little bit to help both of them perk up. They then tested the stool for worms and it came back negative! The vet said that you should treat your whole flock anyway and sent me home with antibiotics (enroflixacin) and wormer (panacur- isn't this a dog de-wormer??).
Last night honey sounded so bad I thought she was going to die. I didn't sleep at all!
So today Clementine sounds really bad and gurgly, as does honey but not AS bad as Sunday. I called my regular vet and she has not gotten back to me.
What is going on!?!?!?! Do you think it is an upper respiratory thing? Do I need to treat the whole flock with antibiotics? What is the best antibiotic for this? What is the best wormer?
By the way, the other 4 girls in my flock seem perfectly normal except one spit up clear water or liquid but she had just drank and put her head down to peck and that is when it came out.
All the poop seems fine as well.
Ahhhhh I'm losing it.
I took a qtip and swabbed her throat and saw nothing. It came out clean. Okay... Maybe not gapeworm....
Sunday morning I woke up really early to check on Clementine and found that Honey, my buff orp, was GURGLING!!!!! She sounded miserable. I took Clementine and Honey to the EMERGENCY vet because it really sounded THAT bad and they put her in oxygen for a little bit to help both of them perk up. They then tested the stool for worms and it came back negative! The vet said that you should treat your whole flock anyway and sent me home with antibiotics (enroflixacin) and wormer (panacur- isn't this a dog de-wormer??).
Last night honey sounded so bad I thought she was going to die. I didn't sleep at all!
So today Clementine sounds really bad and gurgly, as does honey but not AS bad as Sunday. I called my regular vet and she has not gotten back to me.
What is going on!?!?!?! Do you think it is an upper respiratory thing? Do I need to treat the whole flock with antibiotics? What is the best antibiotic for this? What is the best wormer?
By the way, the other 4 girls in my flock seem perfectly normal except one spit up clear water or liquid but she had just drank and put her head down to peck and that is when it came out.
All the poop seems fine as well.
Ahhhhh I'm losing it.