Hey all..
I have a young black copper maran who's been bullied out of food and water from by our 3 other chickens. We bought them together, from the same breeder, about 2 months ago. They were all the same size at that time. About 3 weeks ago I noticed that she wasn't growing as quickly as the other hens but she was was a very happy chicken. We gave her supplemental foods (scrambled eggs, berries, dark leafy greens) away from the flock during those three weeks in an attempt to help her keep up. About a week ago she started to decline: sluggish (but moving around looking for bugs), eyes half open.
I removed her from the coop about 3 days ago when she started isolating herself, nearly completely listless, very sleepy, stopped eating & drinking, pale comb, dark green water poop. She's been inside our home since.
I've been able to get her to eat and drink very little - water with probiotics and layer feed mash with yogurt. I gave her dewormer, but I strongly believe the root cause is dehydration and starvation.
She has shown no improvements. She had a seizure around 1:30am this morning, another at some point in the night, and then again around 11:15am.
I'm really not sure what to do. I don't want her to suffer, but I also don't want to make the decision to euthanize without knowing I did everything I could to help her heal.
Help?
I have a young black copper maran who's been bullied out of food and water from by our 3 other chickens. We bought them together, from the same breeder, about 2 months ago. They were all the same size at that time. About 3 weeks ago I noticed that she wasn't growing as quickly as the other hens but she was was a very happy chicken. We gave her supplemental foods (scrambled eggs, berries, dark leafy greens) away from the flock during those three weeks in an attempt to help her keep up. About a week ago she started to decline: sluggish (but moving around looking for bugs), eyes half open.
I removed her from the coop about 3 days ago when she started isolating herself, nearly completely listless, very sleepy, stopped eating & drinking, pale comb, dark green water poop. She's been inside our home since.
I've been able to get her to eat and drink very little - water with probiotics and layer feed mash with yogurt. I gave her dewormer, but I strongly believe the root cause is dehydration and starvation.
She has shown no improvements. She had a seizure around 1:30am this morning, another at some point in the night, and then again around 11:15am.
I'm really not sure what to do. I don't want her to suffer, but I also don't want to make the decision to euthanize without knowing I did everything I could to help her heal.
Help?
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