Silkie with scaly leg mites

[Alicrawf914]

Looks like intestinal shedding.

Is that normal?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Could be since she's not really eating.
Have you tried tube feeding her?

 

[Alicrawf914]

Could be since she's not really eating.
Have you tried tube feeding her?

I want to try tube feeding her. But none of my local stores have the supplies to do it.

 

[Chicalina]

you could try using any oral syringe. the type you get with kids medicine and just squeeze mushy food into the corner of her mouth, and she should swallow nicely. Do the same with a different syringe with water in it. No need to tube her if she can and will swallow. And if she will take scrambled egg from your hand, then feed that to her several times a day. And if she will drink from a bowl, then hold that up to her every couple of hours.

Seems to me there is a scale from her eating normally by herself to being force fed by tube, and steps inbetween where you can get nutrition and fluids into her less invasively (if she cooperates).

I'd put electrolytes into her water too.

 

[Alicrawf914]

you could try using any oral syringe. the type you get with kids medicine and just squeeze mushy food into the corner of her mouth, and she should swallow nicely. Do the same with a different syringe with water in it. No need to tube her if she can and will swallow. And if she will take scrambled egg from your hand, then feed that to her several times a day. And if she will drink from a bowl, then hold that up to her every couple of hours.

Seems to me there is a scale from her eating normally by herself to being force fed by tube, and steps inbetween where you can get nutrition and fluids into her less invasively (if she cooperates).

I'd put electrolytes into her water too.

I'm just really nervous about it getting into her lungs.

 

[CHlCKEN]

This is the same Silkie as in these other 2 thread?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/silkie-stumbles-backward-and-falls-over.1413641/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/silkie-cant-stand-or-walk.1413924/#post-23217659
Have you been giving her vitamin therapy (E and B-Complex) as suggested?

I'm sorry but she may be failing since it's been going on so long.
Hard to know what's going on with her. It could be Marek's or some other issue.
You can try tube feeding her for several days to see if that makes any difference.

I Will add that an easier way is a longer super skinny tube, that’s what I used for my hen, the first time you syringe it will be stressful and scary, but you will know if you put it in the right hole bc you will see it stick out on the birds right side. This takes 3 people, one to hold the bird to the table/hold their wings, one to hold the beak open, and one to syringe in the food.

 

[CHlCKEN]

you could try using any oral syringe. the type you get with kids medicine and just squeeze mushy food into the corner of her mouth, and she should swallow nicely. Do the same with a different syringe with water in it. No need to tube her if she can and will swallow. And if she will take scrambled egg from your hand, then feed that to her several times a day. And if she will drink from a bowl, then hold that up to her every couple of hours.

Seems to me there is a scale from her eating normally by herself to being force fed by tube, and steps inbetween where you can get nutrition and fluids into her less invasively (if she cooperates).

I'd put electrolytes into her water too.

We had to tube our hen bc she wouldn’t swallow it even though she could.

 

[Alicrawf914]

I Will add that an easier way is a longer super skinny tube, that’s what I used for my hen, the first time you syringe it will be stressful and scary, but you will know if you put it in the right hole bc you will see it stick out on the birds right side. This takes 3 people, one to hold the bird to the table/hold their wings, one to hold the beak open, and one to syringe in the food.

Where did you get the supplies? I can't seem to find any at my local stores.

 

[Chicalina]

We had to tube our hen bc she wouldn’t swallow it even though she could.

The OP has said that she will eat if hand fed. That is preferable to tubing, much less stressful for all, plus they haven't got the equipment anyway. If she stops eating then perhaps tubing is needed, but it doesn't seem necessary right now when she will eat if guided to.

 

[CHlCKEN]

Where did you get the supplies? I can't seem to find any at my local stores.

They were given to me by the vet, you can find small skinny syringes on amazon I’m sure here’s a link to something sailmaker to what I used https://www.amazon.com/1ml-Syringe-Only-Sterile-Syringes/dp/B01DARL378