Sick Chicken, Please Help, Nothing is Working

[slm118]

I went to the feed store and got some Safeguard yesterday afternoon, after reading about it on another thread. I gave her 1/2ml orally...that was fun. Haha. I'm currently about $125 worth of medication into trying to cure a $7 chicken that'll probably turn out to be a rooster that I'll have to get rid of anyway. Lol.

Thanks very much for y'alls help, I'll let you know how she/he fares!

 

[PD-Riverman]

I went to the feed store and got some Safeguard yesterday afternoon, after reading about it on another thread. I gave her 1/2ml orally...that was fun. Haha. I'm currently about $125 worth of medication into trying to cure a $7 chicken that'll probably turn out to be a rooster that I'll have to get rid of anyway. Lol.

Thanks very much for y'alls help, I'll let you know how she/he fares!

I just gave you the info I was told to do by our State DVM and it works perfectly. I never gave orally, so I do not know how that works. I only repeat what I was told to do by a qualified Doctor. Sure there will be some film in the bottom of the waterer but it sure makes the water look like milk---I would think that is mixing pretty good, Plus prescribed by a Doctor Of Veterinarian Medicine that is head over the State Lab. Hope it gets her straighten out.

 

[slm118]

Update: Yesterday was day 5 of oral wormer. Her eye looks considerably better, no longer sealed shut but still a bit weepy. But she still staggers around. I'm wondering if maybe that'll get better progressively as she gains weight and gets stronger? I'm also wondering when it would be okay to put her back out in the coop with the others. She's been living in my garage in a dog crate. None of my others ever showed any symptoms, but I did go ahead with the 3 days of 10ml/gal wormer in their waterer, yesterday was the last day of that.

 

[Eggcessive]

SafeGuard (fenbendazole) is intended for use given orally, not for putting in the water as I previously posted. Since she has the swollen eye from a possible respiratory illness, she may not ever be fully normal in weight or development. Most diseases such as MG, coryza, and others are chronic and can come back when they are stressed. It's possible that she has some underlying problem with immunity. If you ever should lose her, it would give you a lot of information to get a necropsy. It's just hard to know exactly what is wrong without lab tests, which most of us are unable to get. Necropsies by professionals kind of help us all to learn. Some do their own necropsies. There are quite a few places online to see pictures of necropsies or autopsies of chickens, to show what is normal and abnormal.

 

[slm118]

I did give it to her orally, 1ml/day for 5 days. Squirted it down her throats with a syringe. I'll keep her quarantined for a few more days to see if her eye clears up. Prior to the Safeguard she got a 5 day treatment of Tylan bc I first assumed it was a respiratory problem. So I'm hesitant to pump her with any more medication at this point. Survival of the fittest now, but I don't want her making the rest of my flock sick since none of them have shown any symptoms of illness at all.

 

[Eggcessive]

Some probiotics or plain yogurt with cultures is very good to use after antibiotics or wormer, just in case it is not in their feed already--some now have it included, but we never know how good they are. I tend to agree with you on survival of the fittest in my flock. Fresh food, clean water, and I only medicate if something is confirmed.

 

[slm118]

Her eye seems to be going back downhill and the stumbling seems worse. She hardly has any balance. I don't know what else to do for this chicken.

 

[PD-Riverman]

I did give it to her orally, 1ml/day for 5 days.

According to my bottle 1ml is for a 45+ lb animal---where did you get this dosage info from? I am no Vet but that seems like enough to poison the chicken??

 

[Eggcessive]

According to my bottle 1ml is for a 45+ lb animal---where did you get this dosage info from? I am no Vet but that seems like enough to poison the chicken??

The information is in my post # 10 above. Fendbendazole dosage for a chicken to get rid of difficult worms is 1/4 ml per pound for 3-5 days--5 days for capillary worms. It is listed in Plumb's Veterinary Handbook if you want to look it up. Chickens sometimes require larger doses per pound than other animals depending on the drug. Amoxicillin is another such drug.

 

[PD-Riverman]

The information is in my post # 10 above. Fendbendazole dosage for a chicken to get rid of difficult worms is 1/4 ml per pound for 3-5 days--5 days for capillary worms. It is listed in Plumb's Veterinary Handbook if you want to look it up. Chickens sometimes require larger doses per pound than other animals depending on the drug. Amoxicillin is another such drug.

Being I use this I would like to read up on it. Is there a online place to read this info in the Plumb's Vet Handbook or you have to buy the book? I have seen several places that say things like 1/2ml oral for a average size chicken one time then again in 10 days. I do not know but interested.