Chicken is a 10 month old EE hen, named Rita. She was laying eggs but stopped (with my other EE) mid-November. My other 3 hens are doing that first mini-molt. This hen has not. She started wasting away and having loose stools about 2 weeks ago- her dirty butt brought this to my attention. Nothing but a cold snap changed. She's got plenty of room in her coop and yard with her 5 friends. No mites that I can see. No worms in the poop. I thought egg bound, impacted crop, upper respiratory, mareks- but she's not fitting anything.
She's been sick-sick for 10 days. I've had her caged the entire time and almost culled her twice. She had terrible, runny diarrhea from the start. She's thin and the poop is green (electric) and white. Not terribly smelly. Her bum is caked (I've given her one bath and she;'s about to get another). Her appetite has been crappy, but she's almost always at least willing to eat a bite.
I've been doing all I think that I can: force feeding yogurt mix when she's not eating, giving vitimin drops, I tried olive oil, offered every food I can think of, I have given sub-Q fluids (this forum rocks and gave me the confidence to do it- I give them to cats all the time)- all supportive care. I thought that I got some food or fluid in her lungs as she started sounded like a rattle and was coughing. I started her on that durmex tetracycline and that seemed to help the respiratory symptoms.
She just seems to be hanging on. She's super alert and always intersted in her surroundings. She's not been able to walk for the last 7 days. Her face and comb are red. She doesn't seem to drink, but I've been dipping her beak to get her to at least take something.
I've had her in the garage with a heat lamp, but brought her in last night. She's been on the antibiotic for 2 days. I saw a solid poop about 4 days ago, but no more.
This am, she stood up and ate hulled sun flower seeds and pellets like they were going out of style. What the heck!??
So, from what I can tell the green poop maybe poisoning, liver failure, or worms? My vet let me take a cc of ivomec (for cattle and pigs) this am, but I have no idea how much to give her. I bet she'd give me some tylan if I asked, but the poop is my biggest concern now.
Any suggestions? I really appreciate all the help on this forum.
Just adding that I went in to visit her and she's no longer able to stand (she was weakly standing this am, but it was a vast improvement). But, I gave her an ear of corn to see if she was interested and she went crazy for it. She pecked at it for several minutes and then went after the sunflower seeds again. However, her poop is almost liquid at this point.
I'd really appreciate any help....
She's been sick-sick for 10 days. I've had her caged the entire time and almost culled her twice. She had terrible, runny diarrhea from the start. She's thin and the poop is green (electric) and white. Not terribly smelly. Her bum is caked (I've given her one bath and she;'s about to get another). Her appetite has been crappy, but she's almost always at least willing to eat a bite.
I've been doing all I think that I can: force feeding yogurt mix when she's not eating, giving vitimin drops, I tried olive oil, offered every food I can think of, I have given sub-Q fluids (this forum rocks and gave me the confidence to do it- I give them to cats all the time)- all supportive care. I thought that I got some food or fluid in her lungs as she started sounded like a rattle and was coughing. I started her on that durmex tetracycline and that seemed to help the respiratory symptoms.
She just seems to be hanging on. She's super alert and always intersted in her surroundings. She's not been able to walk for the last 7 days. Her face and comb are red. She doesn't seem to drink, but I've been dipping her beak to get her to at least take something.
I've had her in the garage with a heat lamp, but brought her in last night. She's been on the antibiotic for 2 days. I saw a solid poop about 4 days ago, but no more.
This am, she stood up and ate hulled sun flower seeds and pellets like they were going out of style. What the heck!??
So, from what I can tell the green poop maybe poisoning, liver failure, or worms? My vet let me take a cc of ivomec (for cattle and pigs) this am, but I have no idea how much to give her. I bet she'd give me some tylan if I asked, but the poop is my biggest concern now.
Any suggestions? I really appreciate all the help on this forum.
Just adding that I went in to visit her and she's no longer able to stand (she was weakly standing this am, but it was a vast improvement). But, I gave her an ear of corn to see if she was interested and she went crazy for it. She pecked at it for several minutes and then went after the sunflower seeds again. However, her poop is almost liquid at this point.
I'd really appreciate any help....
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