Worms and Sudden Illness??

[KCNC06]

I know!!! I had a similar situation yesterday when Hawkface was a little too interested in Mabel laying her egg and considered calling out of work to stay home to keep an eye on the situation. My coworkers already think I'm nuts (they were laughing at my pink, fuzzy bunny slippers again earlier today), I guess it wouldn't hurt to tell them I need to leave early to go buy dewormer for my chickens.

 

[suebee]

Oh, didn't realize you're at work! Yes, tell them it's a "family emergency!!!!"

 

[KCNC06]

Oddly enough, I bet they'd understand. Or at very least they wouldn't say I couldn't leave. I work in a relatively small church, two pastors are here four weekdays and one is one day a week, I'm the only non-pastoral staff member. One of our church members is NC's "official chicken doctor".

I only have an hour left before my day's up though.

 

[suebee]

Oh wow! What part of NC are you in? I'm 40 miles east of Raleigh. Let me know how Hawkface is doing.

 

[KCNC06]

We're in Holly Springs, in Harnett County, probably about 20 miles west of Raleigh.

I got the Wazine, came home and mixed it up. Hawkface doesn't seem interested in drinking on her own, still quite lethargic. I mixed a tiny pinch (maybe 1/16 tsp) of Duramycin (figured it probably wouldn't hurt) in with her water. I picked her up and held her in my lap and gave her about a tsp of Wazine water from a dropper. She didn't seem all that happy about drinking, kept moving her face away from the dropper, but drank relatively well. She'll stand for a little while if I stand her up, but she seems like she just wants to sleep. Hopefully the Wazine, Nutri-Drench and smidge of antibiotic will do the trick for her. I did see a few little stringy things in her poo when I got home. Not as big as the worms I saw in the poo outside this morning, but at least there was no more green bits!

 

[suebee]

Great! I hope she pulls through. I think the directions for Wazine is all they can drink for just one day, w/out any other source of water, but I actually give it to them for a couple of days. Just keep repeating with the dropperfuls of wazine mixture, at least once an hour until you go to bed if possible. Remember she won't have much tomorrow until you get home from work, so I'd load her up tonight, making sure it's the correct ratio of wazine/water. Everything you're doing sounds great. Hope she feels better soon!

 

[KCNC06]

I'm tempted to put her in a box and take her to work with me tomorrow if my husband isn't going to be home. They didn't say anything when I brought my puppy to work for a couple days back in June.

He was too young to leave his mom, but the person we got him from was getting rid of the litter that day regardless of who took them. They said they just couldn't afford to keep them anymore. The vet said he was probably 4.5 weeks old and the folks we got him from said he was 6.5 weeks. Poor guy was really sickly and too young to be crated for 8 hours so he came to work with me in a laundry basket and slept under my desk. Lucky little dog. When we got him he was 4 lbs, we're surprised he's up to 63 lbs now.

I'll keep giving her the medicine/vitamin water tonight, see how she is in the morning. If she's not eating by morning, should I figure out how to soften food enough to feed her "liquid" food with the dropper?

 

[suebee]

That is wonderful about your puppy dog!

Yes, see how hawkface is doing by morning and decide if you should take her to work. Could you make her something she loves, like scrambled eggs, and see if she'll eat tonight? If she eats some eggs, maybe you could mix a few crumbles of feed with that.

If she doesn't eat, maybe you could boil an egg and just mix the cooked yolk part with water and suction it up into the dropper.
I'm sure the vitamins are helping now...just need some protein.

 

[KCNC06]

I've never fed them eggs before, so I'm not sure if she'd like them. I just got back from giving her some more water. I got her to drink 2.5 tsps and she seemed more alert! She was talking more and looking around. When I put her back in the crate she even pecked at the towel a bit!! (I took out the poopy sheet that was in with her all day and gave her the towel she was sitting on on my lap earlier.) I might try mixing some hard boiled egg yoke in with the next round of water.

 

[suebee]

Great!! Most chickens love cooked eggs. Cook or boil one and see if she'll eat it. What I'd do is boil an egg, mix just the cooked yolk with a little bit of american cheese. (The Kraft individually wrapped kind) Mine go crazy over this!
You're doing a GREAT JOB!