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Thanks so much for everyone's input! I decided to call our local avian resuce center and talked to the vet there, just to clarify thinigs. He said that it is perfectly safe to use the Vicks Vapo Rub and that I COULD NOT overdose him. He said to rub down his nostrils, under his wings, under his neck and also run the vaporizer with Eucolyptus smell in it. The way the Vicks works is that it helps break up the thick mucus and also helps clear out the sinuses. I am cleaning off his nostrils every few hours gently with a Q- tip because all the congeston is cutting loose from his lungs and coming out there it seems. He did have pneumonia come to find out and was wheezing very badly before but is not doing so as much today. We are also making the Terrymicin into a super strength paste, per his instructions, and givnig it every 2 hours if he starts to show distress signs. Otherwise, every 4 hours super strength paste through medicine dropper. We started all this last night and have saw a BIG improvement. He is eating chick starter mash and being fed water with apple juice through a medicine dropper every few hours. He said the apple juice will help because apparantly he was so sick he was going into shock! He actually opens up his mouth and lets me drop it in! He is still sleeping alot, though the vet said this is normal, and he told me not to change to the Tylan that the super strength we are making the Terrymicin will work just as well. They said they think he will pull through. And he answered all my questions for free so i didn't have to worry about the charge I was concerned over. I was very impressed that he showed such concern over what most of my extended family see as "just a chicken." My son was so upset over his chicken not being able to crow that he went and picked it a flower while in tears. It was sad but sweet. I will update more as things happen. The vet said it would take about a week for me to notice a very significant improvement as pneumonia takes alot out of anyone or anything.
He did verify that as I thought yesterday, the reason he feels better in spurts, is the same reason we humans do when we are sick. We get to feeling a llittle better and over do it. When the roo was feeling better yesterday he ate ALOT and then played around with his hen who is also sick and is isolated with him so they can be treated together. Apparantly when he felt a little better he over did it and exhausted himself which made him feel worse than before!
He did verify that as I thought yesterday, the reason he feels better in spurts, is the same reason we humans do when we are sick. We get to feeling a llittle better and over do it. When the roo was feeling better yesterday he ate ALOT and then played around with his hen who is also sick and is isolated with him so they can be treated together. Apparantly when he felt a little better he over did it and exhausted himself which made him feel worse than before!
