URGENT: Mites or Lice on Already Near-Dead Hen- How to Remove?

[countrybum]

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They are eating you just are not seeing it. I thought the same thing of my broody hens, until I seen them off the nest. They just are not eating as often as the others.

 

[chickeepoo]

I don't know what they were eating other than some leftover seeds that might be in the run- the layer crumbles in their feeder is at the same level as it was several days ago. They did eat a little more of Glenda's probiotic mash today. One of them wouldn't leave the nest but ate what I offered her from the bowl; the other one ate a little then went out in the run to nibble a little of the mash on a plate and drink a little water before returning to the nest. They aren't laying, just fluffed up acting broody. I may go to Duramyciin in the water; I'd worm but the wazine bottle says DO NOT use on birds that are ill, etc. Maybe cayenne peeper in the probiotic mash?

 

[ChickenCharmer]

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I have a blind-in-one-eye Sumatra hen. I noticed her closing her eye, and I saw it was wounded, oozing tissue from the wound. It looked bad, so I thought I should cull her. However, I decided against it, and I nursed her back to health. I soaked her eye in contact solution thrice a day. She wouldn't eat chicken feed, so I just fed her eggs. It took two or three weeks, but now she is with the rest of the flock, although her eye is blind.

 

[countrybum]

Well, my boy is hanging in there, I just cannot catch him to do anything about his eye. It is now to far a long to try and treat and he is beginning to smell pretty bad. I think I am going to have the guy next door releive him of his suffering sooner than later. His eye was so swollen when I noticed it, it looked like a balloon on the side of his head.

 

[jjthink]

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Can you catch him while he's sleeping at night and then get the situation treated? Poor boy.

JJ

 

[countrybum]

I think it is to far a long. It has been months since I noticed it. I have tried to clear it up once already and as soon as I thought it was fine, it reinfected.

 

[chickeepoo]

So sorry about the roo… I hope you can get that resolved quickly(it would be a relief if your neighbor is experienced and willing, and the bird is past saving). I didn't like having to put down the buff hen last week, but she was fading and in pain. The original BO I was treating had huge swelling on her face once she went back to the flock and I began treating the one in this thread; I don't think it was the eye per say, but the area around it. BUT as for the ones now acting ill, they did respond a little to that probiotic mash that Glenda H. had on another thread- even came out of the hen house for a little while and laid one little egg. I've asked her to put that recipe on a sticky for all to use when she can. If you need it, I can repost it here.
BTW- to cover all my bases with sick hens, I checked very carefully when looking for parasites… lice got by me for a little bit before I nailed them, and I even found a couple on my hens I thought were lice-free (they've all since been dusted).

 

[4honey]

I know that this is an old post,but, I'm a newby to BYC and wonder if possibly the sick hen that started out with lice (which I was reading about) ha a stroke? Hens,according to what I've read are naturally hypertensive. I'd appreciate any input to this idea,what you all think,if anyone reads this.
Thanks