Suspected gapeworm

[casportpony]

Hello,

mdc05, I'm so sorry for your losses. Were you able to treat your flock? Did you have much success?

I had a very healthy flock before I added more chickens. In October, I bought 10 six week old girls from a popular site. I have lost three of them already, and one who is currently very, very ill. I've been to our vet several times but I feel like I'm not getting anywhere. When my little one (Peaches) got sick this week, I decided to try out the Denegard/Tetracylcline combo on my own (I'm a medical student so very familiar with pharmacology). She is still hanging on, but her color doesn't look great. I'm doing everything I can to help her through this crisis: isolated in a cozy room, she has a heating pad, vaporizer running with VetRx in it, electrolyte solution for drinking, Prozyme in her food (which she has barely touched). I've made her mash with warm milk; she was uninterested. She has had nibbles of apple flesh and she drank some NutriDrench recently.

Just wondering if anyone is able to kick these awful respiratory diseases. I'm terrified that once I put the young new girls in with my current flock, they will all be ill. Culling for me just doesn't feel like an option at all. I know that for the sake of biosecurity it makes sense, but I'm not comfortable with that at all.

Any advice is really appreciated.

Thank you.

Welcome to BYC!

ou might want to try learning how to tube feed.
http://lafeber.com/vet/tube-feeding-birds/