Hi everyone,
Here again with yet another chicken illness.
My Rhode Island Red, Ginger, who weighs about 6 pounds as a guess feels skinnier and has been acting more lethargic, less appetite, and a full squishy crop that hadn’t gone down overnight. I guessed sour crop as whenever I would massage it she would burp that sour smell. I isolated her on Wednesday, noticing symptoms on Tuesday— her comb has also fallen over, I don’t fully understand the significance but her comb was upright before, which is what I initially noticed on Monday.
Wednesday overnight she was given only Garlic water, she drank on her own. I work at an animal hospital, unfortunately with only 1 doctor with limited experience with exotics, but he knows some, and perscribed me with Tylan and suggested adding apple cider vinegar. I’ve been hesitant to give the Tylan as I don’t know if that will effectively combat the right kind of bacteria buildup. Thursday night after adding apple cider vinegar (1 teaspoon to 2 cups of water) she started refusing the water all together, and has not (from what I’ve observed) drank on her own at all.
On Friday I noticed her crop was only going down a little over the 24 hour period, still full with liquid , so I thought to make her regurgitate most of what was in there- I did it successfully without issue however there was a tiny amount that I decided not to work out— she did have some grass and greens in there, and when I feel it it’s definitely more grass.
I’ve been attempting to feed her now scrambled eggs with yogurt, pellets mixed with the vinegar/garlic water mix, but her appetite is very little, and her poop was normal at first (Watery, but the colors were normal) and now its turning into a yellowish color.
I’m at a loss of what to do, and decided to observe a fecal smear— I’m unsure of what I saw though, if someone could help identify if she has parasites that’d be helpful. I saw lots of long bacilli bacteria, and plenty of round shapes that I couldn’t really identify as any parasite eggs. The pictures are at 40x and 100x magnification.
Her crop has gone down overnight Friday after giving her some more water and wet pellets (just a few pecks)
Should I give the Tylan? Do i need to grab dewormer too? I read yellow droppings are a sign of Coccidia and is Tylan effective against it?
Thank you for you help, if you need any more information I’ll be happy to provide more. I’m willing to take her to the vet but the vet’s only available on Thursdays, and it makes me nervous about stressing her out more.
Here again with yet another chicken illness.
My Rhode Island Red, Ginger, who weighs about 6 pounds as a guess feels skinnier and has been acting more lethargic, less appetite, and a full squishy crop that hadn’t gone down overnight. I guessed sour crop as whenever I would massage it she would burp that sour smell. I isolated her on Wednesday, noticing symptoms on Tuesday— her comb has also fallen over, I don’t fully understand the significance but her comb was upright before, which is what I initially noticed on Monday.
Wednesday overnight she was given only Garlic water, she drank on her own. I work at an animal hospital, unfortunately with only 1 doctor with limited experience with exotics, but he knows some, and perscribed me with Tylan and suggested adding apple cider vinegar. I’ve been hesitant to give the Tylan as I don’t know if that will effectively combat the right kind of bacteria buildup. Thursday night after adding apple cider vinegar (1 teaspoon to 2 cups of water) she started refusing the water all together, and has not (from what I’ve observed) drank on her own at all.
On Friday I noticed her crop was only going down a little over the 24 hour period, still full with liquid , so I thought to make her regurgitate most of what was in there- I did it successfully without issue however there was a tiny amount that I decided not to work out— she did have some grass and greens in there, and when I feel it it’s definitely more grass.
I’ve been attempting to feed her now scrambled eggs with yogurt, pellets mixed with the vinegar/garlic water mix, but her appetite is very little, and her poop was normal at first (Watery, but the colors were normal) and now its turning into a yellowish color.
I’m at a loss of what to do, and decided to observe a fecal smear— I’m unsure of what I saw though, if someone could help identify if she has parasites that’d be helpful. I saw lots of long bacilli bacteria, and plenty of round shapes that I couldn’t really identify as any parasite eggs. The pictures are at 40x and 100x magnification.
Her crop has gone down overnight Friday after giving her some more water and wet pellets (just a few pecks)
Should I give the Tylan? Do i need to grab dewormer too? I read yellow droppings are a sign of Coccidia and is Tylan effective against it?
Thank you for you help, if you need any more information I’ll be happy to provide more. I’m willing to take her to the vet but the vet’s only available on Thursdays, and it makes me nervous about stressing her out more.
