Questions are welcome! My Bella is still doing amazing. She has completely gained all of her strength and though she is still free loading with no egg production!!, we love her and glad she pulled through. I am no vet, but the one I spoke too is very, very old fashioned. He believes you treat animals with common sense and less Google! I went to Walgreens and luckily they had buy one get one free on vitamins and bought Vitamin E capsules and Selenium tabs. I took a half piece of bread, soaked with electrolyte water, poked a whole in the Vitamin E capsule and squeezed 2 caps on the bread and sprinkled 2crushed selenium tabs over the vitamin E. Bella was not able to eat by herself, so I had to hold the bread over her beak while she pecked at it. This way I knew for sure she was getting all of it and I did this 2 times a day. Within a few days she was doing much better, but did have spells where she was worse than she was before. After having a very bad night where I almost gave up on her and she refused to eat or drink anything, I called my vet again and he told me to force feed her some avocado (just the flesh, the skin is dangerous). I did that for two eating sessions along with the Vitamin E and Selenium regimen and she was fully recovered by the third feeding. I did give her electrolytes every 2-4 hours depending on my schedule. It was very, very time consuming and at times I cried with her as she struggled to breathe, but it was so worth it in the end. I have noticed at times, her neck looks a little crooked, so I just give her another piece of bread with the same vitamin regimen above and within a few hours she is fine again. I do know the amount of vitamins she got every day can cause death if given over a long period of time. It only took about a week, to recover and she slowly gave less and less each time til she was sent out to the coop. And now I just treat her when I see symptoms. We do not know if she will ever produce eggs again, but she is our miracle chicken so we will keep her around!
