Dhkoenig
Songster
Hi all of my sweet BYC peeps. So before putting Babs to sleep because of her "slipped disc", I took her to another doctor for a second opinion and it is clearly her knee! Soft tissue injury, not broken or dislocated. No way to know if it is torn ACL or torn ligament/tendon (which would be bad outcome because they don't heal) or just a partial tear, or a pulled ligament/tendon or muscle...Just guessing and the only way to know without subjecting her to MRI etc, is to add another pain med, stay with the anti-inflammatory and keep her resting in her little nook for a week or so and see if there is any improvement. She eats like a bear and lays, she just can't bear weight on that knee. Here is my question:
I would prefer not to handle/scare/stress her as much as possible so i have been putting her tiny 1/4 of pill into a blueberry or a kernel of corn. She is funny because most of the time she takes apart the blueberry/corn kernel and eats it and then EATS THE MEDICINE LIKE IT IS FOOD! LOL.
Here's the rub. 1) she is getting sick of blueberries and sick of corn and it is REALLY hard to squirt the powdered gabepentin into those. I managed to do it today and she ate it but it took her a while to decide if she was in the mood for yet another blueberry. Can anyone think of another tiny vessel for her meds? I put some corn bread in her crate yesterday (without meds to test if she likes it) and she was very uninterested. She does like mozzerella cheese pearls but they are hard to swallow whole so she usually tears them up before eating...HMMM any ideas? I don't want to give it to her in syringe in her beak, I know how- have done it a million times with other chickens- but this girl is already so afraid of me and skittish that I dont want to keep grabbing her to pick her up and medicate. Any ideas would be awsome!
I would prefer not to handle/scare/stress her as much as possible so i have been putting her tiny 1/4 of pill into a blueberry or a kernel of corn. She is funny because most of the time she takes apart the blueberry/corn kernel and eats it and then EATS THE MEDICINE LIKE IT IS FOOD! LOL.
Here's the rub. 1) she is getting sick of blueberries and sick of corn and it is REALLY hard to squirt the powdered gabepentin into those. I managed to do it today and she ate it but it took her a while to decide if she was in the mood for yet another blueberry. Can anyone think of another tiny vessel for her meds? I put some corn bread in her crate yesterday (without meds to test if she likes it) and she was very uninterested. She does like mozzerella cheese pearls but they are hard to swallow whole so she usually tears them up before eating...HMMM any ideas? I don't want to give it to her in syringe in her beak, I know how- have done it a million times with other chickens- but this girl is already so afraid of me and skittish that I dont want to keep grabbing her to pick her up and medicate. Any ideas would be awsome!
