Suddenly sick girl

[Goingone]

Claire, our 18wk old Wyandotte pullet woke up this morning incredibly weak. She doesn’t want to lay down though. No injuries, eyes look bright, no nasal discharge, she was vaccinated for Mareks & Coccidiosis when younger. She’s walking but slowly, not at all with her normal pep. She’s pooped 3 times so far today-it’s basically yellow water. She’d still on Grower feed and had a new snack yesterday-it was flax seed. Any thoughts anyone????

 

[Goingone]

Claire, our 18wk old Wyandotte pullet woke up this morning incredibly weak. She doesn’t want to lay down though. No injuries, eyes look bright, no nasal discharge, she was vaccinated for Mareks & Coccidiosis when younger. She’s walking but slowly, not at all with her normal pep. She’s pooped 3 times so far today-it’s basically yellow water. She’d still on Grower feed and had a new snack yesterday-it was flax seed. Any thoughts anyone????

 

[Goingone]

Also, she has no mites and her crop is clear and we did give her a warm epsom salt soak bath to her ankles this morning.

 

[Eggcessive]

Is she drinking water and eating today? Electrolytes, or a dose of Poultry NutriDrench 2 ml given orally might be helpful if she is dehydrated. Are her poops still yellow liquid? Can you post a picture of her and her poop? Is she holding her tail up or down? I assume that she has not started laying eggs yet?

 

[LaFleche]

She’s walking but slowly, not at all with her normal pep. She’s pooped 3 times so far today-it’s basically yellow water.

Her problems might stem from a (shell-less) egg rupturing inside her oviduct. Did she have problems with her egg shells prior to this incident?

 

[seminolewind]

Claire, our 18wk old Wyandotte pullet woke up this morning incredibly weak. She doesn’t want to lay down though. No injuries, eyes look bright, no nasal discharge, she was vaccinated for Mareks & Coccidiosis when younger. She’s walking but slowly, not at all with her normal pep. She’s pooped 3 times so far today-it’s basically yellow water. She’d still on Grower feed and had a new snack yesterday-it was flax seed. Any thoughts anyone????

Excessive has good advice. I'd like to add a few more things..Treat her for cocci again. She will probably not drink enough so tube water or use a syringe to dribble it in the side of her beak. Give her a wet mash made from feed. You can hide some of the Elytes or Nutri Drench, or dribble it the same way She needs that.

Check her for an i mpacted egg. Check her crop for food not going down. If all else fails use Tylan injectable. , give 3/4 to one ml shot per day .for 5 days. That's my routine if they don't go to the vet.

IMO if you have chickens, try to have some sort of feeding tube on hand, (male foleys, or aquarium tubing, etc. and some syringes, 1 ml, 5 ml, 10 ml , 20 ml, and 30 ml. or any of them. Eventually you will need something with chickens and it's better to make sure you have the tools to be accurate and make sure they get the meds they're supposed to.

I myself keep Corrid and Tylan injectable in my fridge {after 15 yrs, I like having it available.).
Chickens can have Cocci without symptoms or blood. At any age . A poultry vet called me one day about a necropsy I sent and gave me a good lecture of how chickens should be treated for Cocci twice a year, as well as being wormed.
My necropsy results have included deaths from 1. Aspergillosis, 1. cappalaria (sp) worms and e. coli. 1 rare liver disease (vet called me) , 3 sisters from something like C. Diff- just looked healthy, then just bled out overnight ! 1. from a diagnosed infected bite, although I disagree, the silkie roo one morning had a black swollen face, somewhat crushed head, and slime covering his head and neck. My thoughts were a snake tried to eat him, swallowed part of him and changed his mind. The slimed head and neck and black face overnight .
All allowed e. coli to invade as well.
I just tell my experiences. No guesses.

 

[Goingone]

Is she drinking water and eating today? Electrolytes, or a dose of Poultry NutriDrench 2 ml given orally might be helpful if she is dehydrated. Are her poops still yellow liquid? Can you post a picture of her and her poop? Is she holding her tail up or down? I assume that she has not started laying eggs yet?

I just got home from roaming my world for Nutridench, I do have some electrolytes/probiotics in her water. She was nibbling a little bit when I left on my quest today and was nibbling when I came home. No Nutridense to be found on my planet here, I’m getting ready to order some from Amazon here in a sec. No she has not begun laying yet. How about also I crumble up some Feather Fixer pellets into her grower feed right now to increase nutrients until the liquid vitamin arrives?

Her problems might stem from a (shell-less) egg rupturing inside her oviduct. Did she have problems with her egg shells prior to this incident?

She hasn’t begun laying yet.

 

[Goingone]

Excessive has good advice. I'd like to add a few more things..Treat her for cocci again. She will probably not drink enough so tube water or use a syringe to dribble it in the side of her beak. Give her a wet mash made from feed. You can hide some of the Elytes or Nutri Drench, or dribble it the same way She needs that.

Check her for an i mpacted egg. Check her crop for food not going down. If all else fails use Tylan injectable. , give 3/4 to one ml shot per day .for 5 days. That's my routine if they don't go to the vet.

IMO if you have chickens, try to have some sort of feeding tube on hand, (male foleys, or aquarium tubing, etc. and some syringes, 1 ml, 5 ml, 10 ml , 20 ml, and 30 ml. or any of them. Eventually you will need something with chickens and it's better to make sure you have the tools to be accurate and make sure they get the meds they're supposed to.

I myself keep Corrid and Tylan injectable in my fridge {after 15 yrs, I like having it available.).
Chickens can have Cocci without symptoms or blood. At any age . A poultry vet called me one day about a necropsy I sent and gave me a good lecture of how chickens should be treated for Cocci twice a year, as well as being wormed.
My necropsy results have included deaths from 1. Aspergillosis, 1. cappalaria (sp) worms and e. coli. 1 rare liver disease (vet called me) , 3 sisters from something like C. Diff- just looked healthy, then just bled out overnight ! 1. from a diagnosed infected bite, although I disagree, the silkie roo one morning had a black swollen face, somewhat crushed head, and slime covering his head and neck. My thoughts were a snake tried to eat him, swallowed part of him and changed his mind. The slimed head and neck and black face overnight .
All allowed e. coli to invade as well.
I just tell my experiences. No guesses.

Thank you!

 

[seminolewind]

I just got home from roaming my world for Nutridench, I do have some electrolytes/probiotics in her water. She was nibbling a little bit when I left on my quest today and was nibbling when I came home. No Nutridense to be found on my planet here, I’m getting ready to order some from Amazon here in a sec. No she has not begun laying yet. How about also I crumble up some Feather Fixer pellets into her grower feed right now to increase nutrients until the liquid vitamin arrives?

She hasn’t begun laying yet.

Pedialyte

 

[Goingone]

Pedialyte

Ahhhh!!!!! I have Pedialyte in the fridge!!!!! Full strength or mixed with water?