Sick Buff Orpington hen. Please, I need help!!!!!!!

[dandydoodle]

I came across your thread while searching for what to do for my own sick girl... I don't have any advice really, but I'm sorry your pretty girl is feeling poorly. I don't think mine is going to pull through, but I'm going to try to get her to eat some oatmeal, yogurt, scrambled egg, *something*- poor thing. I read somewhere about giving some infant vitamin drops, maybe you could try that? Doesn't seem like it could hurt anything.

Good luck with yours. I just discovered it is bugs and I don't know what to do!!!!!!!

 

[ccrow]

What kind of bugs?

 

[dandydoodle]

What kind of bugs?

I don't know. :0( Mites or fleas. We have never had bugs before and I have no idea what it is.

 

[lsg1007]

Can you describe them - or maybe post a pic?

 

[dandydoodle]

The description is in this post. I think they are two small to take pics of and have them show up.

Thanks so much


https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ont-know-what-kind-or-what-to-do#post_8924622

 

[bigbadwolf38]

DE is diatomatious earth..(not sure of the spelling)..

 

[GhostRider65]

You can use seven dust bought in the garden section of any garden or retail store, like fleet farm, true value, menards may have it...... TSC should have it, don't buy the chicken dust, in my opinion its useless and I wasted 30 bucks on a 20 lb pail to no avail didn't get rid of them until I used the seven dust.......... vet recommended.
Yes mites can make your chickens ill or kill them, they are blood suckers and will slowly bite them to death........
Get her to eat something, even if you have to go out and dig her some worms.................. fresh water with Apple cider vinegar, 1 ts per quart to help clean her system and add some good flora for her belly, use only braggs organic with the mother,, poly visol, or baby vitamins, yogurt, plain greek is best.... if you have Kefir or know anyone who has some give her a ts in her food, scrambled eggs, are great........... the more food she eats the stronger she will get............ and treat immediately for the mites... if they are really bad give her a bath using dog flea and tick shampoo, then when dry dust with seven, have a helper if possible 2 ppl works best, have your partner hold her head under his/her arm while cradling her in the crook of the arm, but not upside down, start at the tail head and sprinkle lightly working it down to the skin with your fingers, do her whole back, under her wings, and her neck keep it away from her face and don't breath it you or her..
You will have to treat all your birds, and clean there quarters well throwing out the litter if possible and sprinkle it every where nest boxes, floor roosts....ect............ they are not easy to get rid of, re treat in 7 days. after this add some to there dust bath once a ,month with some DE sprinkled in, you can get that at alot of feed stores but get food grade not the gray crap mixed with benenite clay.
you can also feed them some DE to help with worms 1 tx a week mixed in with some scrambled eggs or something fairly wet so it sticks and isn't powdery, it's not good for them to breath it....you either, its microscopic fossils that have tvery shape edges and they kill worms by cutting the exoskeleton and they bleed to death, it will not hurt the chicken or animals because it so small. it can hurt the lungs though so always mix it with something wet or at least moistened. to cut the dust. I hope she makes it............ will pray for her.......Kim

 

[Dagirls]

How is your girl? I have chicks that had bumps on thier eye. They had some other symptoms. I am giving them tetracycline to try to save the rest. Have you tried sugar water to give her some strength. I know I have said it for other posts but an old farmer told me and it helped my hen that I found laying in her run.

 

[dandydoodle]

She won't eat or drink anything. She can't stand. My heart is breaking. So some stupid bugs can really wipe a bird out like this??? How did I not know.

 

[klmclain1]

Did you do all the things GhostRider said? If you take immediate action, you MAY be able to save her. Chickens must be treated right away - by the time symptoms like this are showing, it's an emergency.