Sick pullet, any help appreciated!

[sararoni]

Thanks for the good wishes for my chick.
I hope the same for yours.
I was advised by the experienced members not to mix things with corid especially b vitamins because they inhibit each other. B2 vitamin was an exception and I gave that with corid because my chick had curled toes.
I stopped giving corid and now I am only giving b complex vitamin.
I will be out of options if it doesn't work.
I hope you have better luck

 

[sumatrass]

Mine is suffering a respiratory infection, I have been administering shots of tylan 50 tomorrow will be her last, but I don't see any change. She is paralyzed, lost a lot of weight and keeps gasping for air with the occasional cough.

 

[abserbean]

This has been a strange one for me, because it doesn't look specifically like anything. She had the wet sneeze, but no other resp symptoms. She has the weak, pedaling leg, but can still walk, stretch, scratch, and it isn't getting worse. She does not want to walk around much, and mostly lays down. She is very, very thin, but she is eating and has been wormed recently. Her poo is now a pale green, it was normal when this started, so that may just be b/c of her diet changes. She doesn't have any mites/fleas, and hasn't started laying yet so not egg bound. I did check for an egg to make sure, b/c she is 17 weeks. I had read from your thread,sararoni, not to mix the b vitamins and corid. I finished up the corid yesterday, so today I will try a b vitamin complex since the nutridrench doesn't have all of them. I think I'm going to start an antibiotic, simply b/c nothing else has made any impact. She isn't really getting worse, but not improving either. I hope today we see some improvement.
I am sorry for your sick chicken sararoni and sumatrass, there seems to be quite a few right now. Hopefully something you are doing will help.

 

[abserbean]

Well, it's a new day and she is still here and no worse. I think she is actually getting better, her leg is still weak and pedaling, but she is walking around more and trying to scratch the ground. She has had two doses of an antibiotic. She is vocalizing more, bawking about wanting out of solitary confinement. She definitely seems more alert, and tired of us messing with her! Her appetite was improved yesterday, she ate all of her feed, some grapes, yogurt and bread. Yesterday we let her out in the yard for a few hours, she took a dust bath and sunbathed, ate some grass and did normal chicken things. This morning I'm letting her free range with the flock. After being separated for the last four days, she seems lost around the other chickens. She prefers to walk with me, and won't interact with them at all. She was not bottom of the pecking order before this happened, but now seems to have forgotten that she is part of a flock! Hoping she continues to improve. I still don't know what has been wrong, but since she is improving I'm guessing nothing too terrible.

 

[sbhkma]

You're not the only one watching this thread. I suspect the lack of response is because most folks are as perplexed as you are regarding your poor hen. She does sound like she's improving though-that's good news!

 

[sumatrass]

What type of yogurt should i use, is there a specific brand?

 

[abserbean]

I don't think brand really matters, but you want to give a plain/unflavored variety, and I give them organic b/c I don't want them to have the preservatives in the regular stuff. I actually make my own with organic milk and a crock pot, much cheaper when you are feeding most of it to chickens! I do greek style, so there is more protein. I love watching my hens chow down on yogurt, they get ii all over their waddles and my EE's have messy beards, very funny.

She is about the same, but I would say her poos look better today, more normal in color. She spent a while outside with the flock, but really kept to herself. Her being sick has made her a cuddle chicken, she wants to sit in our laps and stay by our side instead of hanging with the flock. She is still lying down more than normal, but less than she was. No more sneezes, and she is using the weak leg more. She still favors it, and pedals it when she is still, but will put weight on it and walks almost normally. I would almost think it was a leg injury, except for the extreme weight loss and lethargy. I don't have a kitchen scale large enough to weigh her, but I can tell that she is gaining. Her keel bone isn't as prominent as it was, but she is still very light. I still have no idea what would have caused her to lose so much weight so quickly. Maybe she wasn't drinking, and the dehydration caused some kind of nerve or kidney damage that affected the leg? I have no idea. I do feel like she is getting better, I guess we will just keep monitoring her and doing the best we can!
I do appreciate any input, I hope the comment that I was the only one reading didn't come off as snarky, I didn't mean for it to if so!

 

[abserbean]

Well, she is back out with her flock. She made good improvements up to a point, and then seemed to level off. She has put some weight back on, and will use her leg somewhat normally. She still pedals it some, and lays down more than I would like, but she is out foraging and scratching with her flock and doing okay. I didn't want to keep her separated any longer than I had to, for fear that her flock would not accept her back. The have pecked her a little, but she seems to be holding her own, and isn't even at the bottom of the pecking order. I don't know if she will ever make a 100% recovery, but hopefully her leg will continue to strengthen. I still have no idea what was plaguing her, and I guess I probably won't know. My best guess is that she got so dehydrated/starved that it damaged her nerves or something, but that is just a guess. So thankful that she has pulled through, and now she is such a sweetie!