Strange head movement from polish hen. *Video included*

[casportpony]

Thanks Kathy

I will check this tube that I have and if not will have to order some. My friend is a vet nurse so she maybe able to get me some quicker too

There is no force feeding her, I've just been putting the food in front of her but she's not interested. The fluids I have got into her about 5ml - 7ml so far have really caused the crop to gurgle. Is this just because it's empty?

Empty crops will gurgle, kind of like our stomachs do.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@Yorkshire coop , a size 14-18 french catheter should work.

-Kathy

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Looks like it may be respiratory to me. Maybe an injury or foreign body/debris in the airway.

It could well be an injury. From the evidence I have, they have had a real go at her!

@Yorkshire coop
 , a size 14-18 french catheter should work.

-Kathy

Thanks Kathy I will check that out. It's dark here now so I've just had a go at giving her more fluids but she doesn't want any. Not taking the drops from her beak now Don't know if to try again before I head to bed or just leave her be now she's quiet and settled :/

 

[N F C]

Kim, so sorry to read about your pretty Polish girl. I hope things look better in the morning.

 

[deacons]

Sending good vibes!

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Most of the time it's more stressful for them to be watered this way, so it might be better to hold off until you can get a tube.

-Kathy

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Kim, so sorry to read about your pretty Polish girl. I hope things look better in the morning.

Thanks Debby
So do I, she's one of my favourites

Sending good vibes!

Thankyou

Most of the time it's more stressful for them to be watered this way, so it might be better to hold off until you can get a tube.

-Kathy

Will leave her now untill the morning. Fingers crossed I can go pick the tube up first thing

 

[TwoCrows]

Kim, this looks neurological to me. Start with how you found her this morning....flat out and having difficulty breathing. Could be some sort of stroke or possibly an encephelitis (brain swelling) As you know I am dealing with a stroke patient right now....they can develope nervous ticks and lose mobility.

If she were my bird, I would get her under heat, on baby aspirin in case this is stroke or heart trouble and maybe some Amoxicillin or Doxycycline for possible respiratory and or brain swelling bacteria. I had a female quail contract a mosquito virus, EE, and she had weakness, brain swelling and nervous ticks for 8 months until she finally threw the virus and survived.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Thankyou Leyla

How much aspirin and amoxicillin? I have four 250mg amoxicillin capsules. I can get baby aspirin in the morning.

I tell you, it never rains put it pours with my animals

 

[casportpony]

Thankyou Leyla

How much aspirin and amoxicillin? I have four 250mg amoxicillin capsules. I can get baby aspirin in the morning.

I tell you, it never rains put it pours with my animals

I don't know about aspirin, but the amoxcillin dose listed in Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook is 125 mg per kilogram orally twice a day. 125 mg/kg is 57 mg per pound. If she weighs close to 700 grams it might be okay to give her as much as half a capsule twice a day.

-Kathy