The EMERGENCY Thread!!!

[chickengr]

Hello, I had posted earlier about my hen that had sour crop.

We'll, she's been drinking a lot of water, and we have been feeding her a mixture of baking soda and baby applesauce to treat her toxic crop contents. It has been a week since I first noticed she was "off". 2 days ago her breath smelled like rotten salami or onions. Since giving her the baking soda mixture, her breath had improved. Today I finally got her to vomit. It was grayish tan in color, with grass in it. Upon further inspection, I also found a half of an almond. Could this have been an impaction? I don't know if I got all of the contents out, but should I start feeding her something? It's been a week, and all she has had is about a tablespoon of baby applesauce a day for the past 3 days.
I've included a photo of the largest particles I found in her vomit, along with an insulin syringe for size comparison.

I am not an expert but as nobody answered I will try to answer. I would give her vitamins in water and a bit of feed, maybe wet mash or crumbles. it could have been impacted crop, it is good she vomited. try to give her acv instead of baking soda. baking soda is good in small quantities and rarely as it can damage digestive tract.

 

[TwinsLoveChicks]

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.)
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms?
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms?
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet?
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use

1) Four birds, all mixed breeds, three of them are about 5 months old and one is about 1 1/2 to 2 years old, and they don't seem to have lost any weight at all.
2) They are breathing oddly, with their mouths open, kind of gurgly, and with three of them their cheeks are swollen up so that their eyes are half shut.
3) 2-4 days.
4) Just those four.
5) No.
6) It's been raining here for about a week, so it's really muddy in the run. That's the only thing that I can think of that would cause a problem.
7) Nothing unusual. Just their normal feed and water, and they're still eating and drinking.
8) Normal.
9) None.
10) I would want to treat them myself.
11) I'll post a picture soon.
12) The coop is small and off the ground, and the bedding that I use is just plain old shavings.

Also, the older one and two of the young ones are roosters, but the other young one is a hen.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Where is the swelling?

-Kathy

 

[Wyorp Rock]

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1) Four birds, all mixed breeds, three of them are about 5 months old and one is about 1 1/2 to 2 years old, and they don't seem to have lost any weight at all.
2) They are breathing oddly, with their mouths open, kind of gurgly, and with three of them their cheeks are swollen up so that their eyes are half shut.
3) 2-4 days.
4) Just those four.
5) No.
6) It's been raining here for about a week, so it's really muddy in the run. That's the only thing that I can think of that would cause a problem.
7) Nothing unusual. Just their normal feed and water, and they're still eating and drinking.
8) Normal.
9) None.
10) I would want to treat them myself.
11) I'll post a picture soon.
12) The coop is small and off the ground, and the bedding that I use is just plain old shavings.

Also, the older one and two of the young ones are roosters, but the other young one is a hen.

Are these new birds? How long have you had them?
Any discharge from the eyes/nose or foul odors?
Sneezing?

Gurgling, breathing with mouth open and facial swelling (sinus and eyes) is usually a sign of respiratory illness. There are several respiratory illnesses, Infectious Bronchitis and Mycoplasma, IMO are two of the most "common". You mention that is has been raining a lot recently, so you need to look around for any signs of mold/mildew that could be affecting your flock's respiratory tract. If you think mold is the problem then Aspergillosis would need to be considered.

Provide extra vitamins and make sure they are drinking well. Depending on which illness they have, antibiotics may help with any secondary infection from illness. Keep in mind, most respiratory illnesses are contagious and will make sick and exposed birds considered "carriers" of the illness, even if they recover.

If they have discharge from the eyes/nose, try to keep the mucous cleaned off. For eyes, if there is a discharge, flush with saline and remove any discharge/pus that you see, you can apply Vetericyn eye gel or Terramycin eye ointment to the eyes.

Keep us posted.

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[chickengr]

1) Four birds, all mixed breeds, three of them are about 5 months old and one is about 1 1/2 to 2 years old, and they don't seem to have lost any weight at all.
2) They are breathing oddly, with their mouths open, kind of gurgly, and with three of them their cheeks are swollen up so that their eyes are half shut.
3) 2-4 days.
4) Just those four.
5) No.
6) It's been raining here for about a week, so it's really muddy in the run. That's the only thing that I can think of that would cause a problem.
7) Nothing unusual. Just their normal feed and water, and they're still eating and drinking.
8) Normal.
9) None.
10) I would want to treat them myself.
11) I'll post a picture soon.
12) The coop is small and off the ground, and the bedding that I use is just plain old shavings.

Also, the older one and two of the young ones are roosters, but the other young one is a hen.

if mostly roos get sick it is probably IB. there is no treatment for that but antibiotics must be given for secondary infections.baytril and doxycycline are the best choice. I prefer baytril as it covers more diseases. the treatment must be long, at least 2 weeks. I treated my flock with doxycycline for 40 days, I read that baytril helps in 2 weeks and one of my roo besides doxycycline got 2 baytril shots after 2 weeks of treatment as he had gotten worse. he fully recovered and never got sick again.

doxycycline and baytril can be given at the same time. hen must be treated to avoid laying issues later.

 

[Bburnie1]

New here- I have a 7 week old polish who is very ill. We have had her about 3 weeks- the following started 2 days ago: She doesn't want to open her eyes, fluffs feathers, very thin, when she gets up to walk she walks drunk, she is overall very listless and won't really eat on her own. She doesn't have much head control and is very sleepy. When she lays on her side her legs are tucked, toes curled. When she does sit up, she tucks her head and it slowly falls to the floor and she appears to be sleeping. Head is very floppy when I pick her up so I have to be careful to support her head. When she fulls wakes up she does have better head control. I have given her NutriDrench, electrolyte water, and vit b sup. Because nothing was working I decided to give her water soluble abx which seemed to help and she seemed to perk up a bit this afternoon but has now regressed again. This afternoon when she was more with it she did peck at some of her cumbles and try to drink. Still pooping only because I am essentially feeding her with a dropper several times a day.

New symptoms tonight: she was trembling and after I fed her we put her back on heat. Also while I was feeding her she would open her beak and leave it open (gapping?) almost half passed out, or maybe open for more food? Her 3 siblings are fine and she has been quarantined. The 4 were on corid for what I thought was a few days (husband said more like 7) prior to her getting sick. Coop is in garage, no heat as they are fully feathered. Coops gets cleaned almost daily. We have been putting them into the nesting area at night because they won't go in by themselves. A few nights ago we didn't put them in...maybe she got too cold?

My neighbor who has had chickens for years came down today to assess and the only thing she could come up with was failure to thrive. She said while her feathering looked good she had never seen a bird so thin. Worms? Nothing that I can see in her poop (but that doesn't mean no worms) and she is so sick I don't want to load her up on MORE meds... although I suppose at this point it isn't going to hurt.....

any ideas would be helpful, we are at a loss. I didn't think she would make it through the night last night but she did. Tonight, fingers crossed. I told hubby tonight we needed to research how to euthanize her humanly as she can't go on like this for long, it isn't humane. He was near tears.....

brooder pneumonia? Corid OD? mold? vitamin deficiency? I have spent hours upon hours and cannot seem to find anything that really fits these symptoms. No chicken vets around-

Thank you for any input....

 

[AustralorpsAU]

New here- I have a 7 week old polish who is very ill. We have had her about 3 weeks- the following started 2 days ago: She doesn't want to open her eyes, fluffs feathers, very thin, when she gets up to walk she walks drunk, she is overall very listless and won't really eat on her own. She doesn't have much head control and is very sleepy. When she lays on her side her legs are tucked, toes curled. When she does sit up, she tucks her head and it slowly falls to the floor and she appears to be sleeping. Head is very floppy when I pick her up so I have to be careful to support her head. When she fulls wakes up she does have better head control. I have given her NutriDrench, electrolyte water, and vit b sup. Because nothing was working I decided to give her water soluble abx which seemed to help and she seemed to perk up a bit this afternoon but has now regressed again. This afternoon when she was more with it she did peck at some of her cumbles and try to drink. Still pooping only because I am essentially feeding her with a dropper several times a day.

New symptoms tonight: she was trembling and after I fed her we put her back on heat. Also while I was feeding her she would open her beak and leave it open (gapping?) almost half passed out, or maybe open for more food? Her 3 siblings are fine and she has been quarantined. The 4 were on corid for what I thought was a few days (husband said more like 7) prior to her getting sick.  Coop is in garage, no heat as they are fully feathered. Coops gets cleaned almost daily. We have been putting them into the nesting area at night because they won't go in by themselves. A few nights ago we didn't put them in...maybe she got too cold?

My neighbor who has had chickens for years came down today to assess and the only thing she could come up with was failure to thrive. She said while her feathering looked good she had never seen a bird so thin. Worms? Nothing that I can see in her poop (but that doesn't mean no worms) and she is so sick I don't want to load her up on MORE meds... although I suppose at this point it isn't going to hurt.....

any ideas would be helpful, we are at a loss. I didn't think she would make it through the night last night but she did. Tonight, fingers crossed. I told hubby tonight we needed to research how to euthanize her humanly as she can't go on like this for long, it isn't humane. He was near tears.....

brooder pneumonia? Corid OD? mold? vitamin deficiency? I have spent hours upon hours and cannot seem to find anything that really fits these symptoms. No chicken vets around-

Thank you for any input....

Hi. Im sorry your chicken is sick. I actually have no clue. Do you have a picture you could post? Im sure @Wyorp Rock should be able to help or @minihorse927 should be able to as well. Hoping for the best

 

[abbeyc]

Can anyone help dying chicks (8 died already and the rest showing symptoms):
1) age range from 5 weeks to 2 weeks (in different cages)
2) symptoms: fluffed up, hunched, watery sometimes blood in poo which can be green or yellow watery. Takes between 12-30 hours to die though some die rapidly. They just sleep hunched and fluffed up with head down. Some eat right up until the last few hours when I hand feed water with coxid.
3) have treated the for coccidiosis (coxid since monday-dosage below). Also broad spectrum antibiotics (trimethoprim) would have been used if legal to do so

4) acv and garlic clove in water. Very sick ones have probiotic yoghurt
5) all chicks are polish breed except one isa brown that has been vaccinated who also died. The other isa browns got it but recovered. Apart from the one that died they are the only birds to survive. So high mortality rate. However 5 week old polish and same age pekin crosses survived after showing symptoms for a day (possibly cockerels? 2 hens in with them died)
6) rest of chicks have symptoms
See photos attached for latest chick with it and poo but I thought coxid would be the cure but it's 5 days now. Hawkers coxid being given at 7ml per litre.
The full grown chickens outside are ok. The older group of polish (5 weeks) and Isas went outside (had been raining)
I'm new to chicken keeping only started this year but I'm sure it's coccidiosis.,.but why isn't the coxid working? Can I give an emergency higher dose? I'm cradling everyone as it dies and it's breaking me these are my babies!! I have been sobbing as I've tried so hard to help and have fought along with each chick to try n save it and all have died!!
Can anyone help before they all die?

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[abbeyc]

 

[abbeyc]