Sammy is sick Mucous coming from mouth.Not eating,drinking lethargic

[faykokoWV]

with the eye involved, it sound like it may be coryza

http://www.umaine.edu/livestock/Publications/AIC.htm

again, sorry I'm not much help, fairly new to chickens myself and still learning.

 

[dinologano]

I took sammy outside again near her pen mates. She didn't do much so I gave her another 12 ccs of vitamin water and elec. and then another 10ccs of protein with yogurt. She seemed more animate today preening her feathers then closing her eyes and then preening again. She did this quite a few times and walking some. Poop still has not shown any signs of blood so I still have not given her any Sulmet. Hope the preening is a good sign.

Deane

 

[dinologano]

Took Sammy out this moringing to feed next to my other hens, but outside the pen and she took water and ate a lot of scratch. Tried to get her to eat the regular pellets, but wouldn't so at least she at scratch. She preened alot so I think she is MUCH better. She's still not 100 % since she would momentarily close her eyes and rest. I will give her another dose of high protein and yogurt today.

Deane

 

[Hippie Chick in PA]

If it is TOXINS here is a post I copied for you. Good Luck.



Then you need to do a flush please. Do you have molasses or epsom salts?

I like the molasses flush personally. But either will work and is necessary either for extreme mold mycotoxins or botulism; same treatment, different followup that can be done for both.
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Molasses Solution

Add one pint of molasses to 5 gallons of water

Offer the drinking solution free-choice to the affected birds for about four hours. Treat severely affected birds individually if they cannot drink. Return the birds to regular water after the treatment period.


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If the birds are not eating, use the water solution. If the birds are unable to eat or drink by themselves, use individual treatment with:

1 teaspoon of Epsom Salt in 1 fl oz water

Place the solution in the crop of the affected bird. This same amount of solution will treat 5-8 quail or one chicken.
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On molasses, 1 pint = 16 ounces (or we'll say 15 ounces)

divide that by 5 you'll have just over 3 ounces per 1 gallon of water.
30 cc's = one ounce, so 90 cc's = 3 ounces.
Divide that by four, and you'll get 22 cc's per quart waterer.

1 ounce = 6 teaspoons; thus 3 ounces = 18 teaspoons; since we said a little more than 3 ounces, if we round up to 20 teaspoons it's 20 teaspoons/1 gallon.

4 quarts to the gallon means 5 teaspoons molasses per quart of water.

Do this for four hours - she must get the water as her only source of water. Adding some electrolytes to it doesn't hurt, or you can give her electrolyte water afterwards. I mix some yogurt in the water to replace good bacteria as well.

You must flush out the toxins to heal her. I like the molasses as it's more mild. After the flush, you have to replace her electrolytes to heal her and the yogurt in the water helps. Tomorrow try to get her to eat dampened crumbles with yogurt, some polyvisol vitamins as mold toxins deplete oil vitamins. (3 drops in the beak, the Polyvisol baby vitamin without iron from the vitamin section of drug stores, oddly not the baby section).

Clean up all her droppings in case it's botulism, though more likely it's from soured food.

 

[aveca]

Interesting and great answers,

sometimes a crop gets infected and awful mucous comes out the mouth, if you pick the bird up feel the crop, if it feels full, gently lean the bird forward head down gentlly massage crop it will dislodge any material impacting the crop it will run out of the mouth. Do not do this for a long time only about 30 seconds as material coming out can choke the bird, give rest inbetween if you need to do it more than once. We had to do this once a while ago with a hen that on occasion got impacted crop that would become infected. She lived a good long life but was never bred due to this recurring problem. They will look for corser grains to help clean the crop. We used mineral oil in eyedropper to help soften it one time.
If nothing else a helpful hint if this ever happens to member of your flock.
This is used mainly for sour crop they will have a sour smell to their breath .

 

[dinologano]

Sammy is well! Thanks to all of you that have answered my call for help.
Deane

 

[faykokoWV]

 

[Blessed6]

This sounds a lot like what's going on with two of my roosters right now. It's a yucky, slimy stuff coming from their beaks and both of them have one eye that barely opens. They're both very lethargic. One will eat, the other will not. The one that will not eat also fought off a raccoon the other night so he has a lot of mending to do. Did Sammy get much better? Did this effect any of your other chickens? I'm giving them Tylan 50 twice a day and Pedialyte water. Do you have any more recommendations? These are our babies and we REALLY don't want them to die. Thanks!