The EMERGENCY Thread!!!

[casportpony]

Welcome to BYC and sorry for your losses.

Since they are sick they might not be drinking enough, so you could give the Coxoid undiluted orally at 0.05 ml per 100 grams of body weight. Double check that your label says "3.84% amprolium" or "amprolium 38.4 mg/ml".

-Kathy

 

[abbeyc]

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Welcome to BYC and sorry for your losses.

Since they are sick they might not be drinking enough, so you could give the Coxoid undiluted orally at 0.05 ml per 100 grams of body weight. Double check that your label says "3.84% amprolium" or "amprolium 38.4 mg/ml".

Thank you so much Kathy. I have weighed biggie and he's 125g. 'My pipette only starts at 0.5ml but I put a tiny drop in at let him have it. He will die anyway as is as I've tried everything else with the others. How often can he have a drop? I gave a bit of milk afterwards as run out of probiotic yoghurt-should I get more and just mix it with feed for everyone?
Thanks so much for your help...I've used this site for reference so many times but first time posting!
If I could just save one chick the end of life care I've been giving over the past 2 weeks would be worth it.
Thank you

 

[casportpony]

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Welcome to BYC and sorry for your losses.

Since they are sick they might not be drinking enough, so you could give the Coxoid undiluted orally at 0.05 ml per 100 grams of body weight. Double check that your label says "3.84% amprolium" or "amprolium 38.4 mg/ml".

Thank you so much Kathy. I have weighed biggie and he's 125g. 'My pipette only starts at 0.5ml but I put a tiny drop in at let him have it. He will die anyway as is as I've tried everything else with the others. How often can he have a drop? I gave a bit of milk afterwards as run out of probiotic yoghurt-should I get more and just mix it with feed for everyone?
Thanks so much for your help...I've used this site for reference so many times but first time posting!
If I could just save one chick the end of life care I've been giving over the past 2 weeks would be worth it.
Thank you

One small drop is probably only 0.025 ml, so okay to give two drops. In addition to the drop, try to get as much medicated water into him as possible, but be careful, because they can aspirate. Can you post a video of him?

-Kathy

 

[abbeyc]

I've taken a video but can't post it not sure why so have added screen shots of the video including his green poi! His head is no longer down...usually they are hunched with head down almost in an arch...towards the end the head becomes flat. Some of them die more quickly than others and it has nothing to do with size. Tiny the smallest fought for 3 days (I didn't have the corrid then as my local farm supplier mistakenly told me that verm x does the same thing).
Sometimes they do perk up but never survive. Biggie looks a lot better already and is eating but I've seen this before. I've medicated the others with undiluted now and will let you know. Thanks for giving me a little ray of hope Kathy...if it doesn't work then hey I tried but at least I have something else to try.

 

[casportpony]

I've taken a video but can't post it not sure why so have added screen shots of the video including his green poi! His head is no longer down...usually they are hunched with head down almost in an arch...towards the end the head becomes flat. Some of them die more quickly than others and it has nothing to do with size. Tiny the smallest fought for 3 days (I didn't have the corrid then as my local farm supplier mistakenly told me that verm x does the same thing).
Sometimes they do perk up but never survive. Biggie looks a lot better already and is eating but I've seen this before. I've medicated the others with undiluted now and will let you know. Thanks for giving me a little ray of hope Kathy...if it doesn't work then hey I tried but at least I have something else to try.

The video has to be uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo, then post or embed that link.

Are they warm enough? The books I have read, and personal experience say that the sick ones do best if kept in a room or cage that's 80-85 degrees.

-Kathy

 

[KiwiPomegranate]

NEW (I don't know if its an emergency but it could be):
1) Black Sex Link Hen 3yrs
2) She seems like she overly molted, and has occasional sneezes. She was breathing a little raspy too.
3) This has been happening for maybe a week or two, but I just noticed the sneezes and raspy breathing this morning.
4) My Cochin looks like she has overly molted too, but is not sneezing or raspy. And both of them are getting a little chalky white (possibly because they are molting)
7) My chickens eat Layena pellets/crumbles and I thought maybe some electrolytes would help so i gave some this morning.
8) The poop is normal
12) My chickens live in a 10 ft long coop, but it is split in half because two of them do not get along with my silkie, and they have tar paper as their "carpet" with shavings in their nesting boxes.

Also, my silkie does not have anything they do so I don't think there could be anything in the coop causing this problem.

 

[TwinsLoveChicks]

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Update: Nine more chickens are sick this morning, and they are all hens. Same symptoms, and I've isolated them as well.
No, they aren't new. They hatched at my coop from a broody sitting on her and my other hens own eggs.
No discharge from the eyes, but they do have runny noses, and they are coughing as well as sneezing this morning, which is new.
Thank you!



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I'll start antibiotics, etc. as soon as possible. Thank you!


I'll post pictures soon.
-TwinsLoveChicks

 

[minihorse927]

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....

everything you have described screams cocci to me. I understand they were treated with corid but at what dose? Did you continue with the preventative dose afterwards when you got done with the treatment? Everything I am reading says a severe case of coccidiosis. I've had the same thing happen here and when the bird was checked it was found to have severe overload of cocci.

 

[Bburnie1]

I was dosing 1.5 tsp per gal. I stopped completely once we determined we had a sick bird. There is no blood in her poop so could it still be cocci?

She seemed to be doing better in the middle of the night. I woke up twice and she was trying to peck at her crumbles. Today we are back to the really smelly poop that is thick and sticky. When I just got home now she seemed worse again. It's back and forth, which makes it that much more frusterating. I also noticed shew isn't really standing on her feet but more hunched almost like she is using her lower legs to stand on rather then her feet.

 

[minihorse927]

I was dosing 1.5 tsp per gal. I stopped completely once we determined we had a sick bird. There is no blood in her poop so could it still be cocci?

She seemed to be doing better in the middle of the night. I woke up twice and she was trying to peck at her crumbles. Today we are back to the really smelly poop that is thick and sticky. When I just got home now she seemed worse again. It's back and forth, which makes it that much more frusterating. I also noticed shew isn't really standing on her feet but more hunched almost like she is using her lower legs to stand on rather then her feet.

(wait, forgot to say is this liquid or powder corid? If it is liquid the dosage is too low) the dose is a little low. Treament dosage should be 8 to 10 cc per gallon of water. I personally believe it is cocci. I've seen it here hundreds of time without blood. The rest of your symptoms are from her becoming increasingly weak from muscle deterioration. I would treat her again at 10cc per gallon of water and make sure to syringe water to her since she isn't eating and drinking like she should be. I've saved one in that condition before but I force fed her and tubed water down her.

After running a treatment with corid it is best to run a preventative dose for 7 to 14 days to prevent reinfestation.