Yellow runny poop... ?

[casportpony]

@casportpony

I have ml liquid so is that like 1 ml, once a day, which is half of Jen's dose (2X/day)?

Did you buy the Safeguard or is it what you got from the vet? I was under the impression that the vet sold you some amount of Panacur liquid and the Jen's dose is 1ml twice a day, which is 100mg twice a day.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Sorry for all of the questions, but I'm easily confused and don't want to make any suggestions based on something I didn't understand, lol.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

One more question... how much did Jen weigh at the vet?

-Kathy

 

[Zimparellis]

UPDATE: Jen didn't get much better and I became more concerned with her crop, which had been looking persistently too full since I first noticed her illness. After some help and great advice from @casportpony , I decided to take her back to the vet and an xray revealed 6-8 tiny pellets in her stomach and one in her crop. We think these may have been lead pellets that spilled from inside a sandbag used to weigh down photography light stands. Yes, lead.

Her weight was down from 4.3 to 4.2 (her normal is around 5 lbs) lbs but her [peak blood count???] was up slightly from 10% to 14% though still scarily low--they usually start transfusions at this level but Jen's activity is okay so they won't right now and hope that it continues to climb.

Treatment is for lead toxicity which the vet says makes sense in regard to all her symptoms. She'll get an injection BID for five days with a medicine (don't know what) that binds to the metal. I'm paraphrasing, and possibly poorly. She'll stay on the Metronidazol to keep intestinal inflammation down.

I'm going to keep her at the vet for the course of the medicine where she'll be hydrated, medicated and retested. It's going to cost a fortune but I don't know that we can give her the shots and it would give me so much peace of mind that she'll have good supervision.

@casportpony --I did end up giving her that pill by mouth - you would have been proud of me.

Thanks for all the help guys and if you like I'll keep you updated.

Lisa

 

[casportpony]

Wow, not what I expected!

-Kathy

Edited to add: I am proud of you, lol!

 

[hensintheHOUse]

Oh my goodness...

You know what? One of my sick chicken pooped out a couple pieces of plastics and some tall grass someday.









These came after taking some antibiotics. I also thank to Kathy!

I am sorry for you and your chicken for this trouble. Hopefully she can poop them OUT!!!

Cheers!!


By the way...

<<Jen didn't get much better
...

She doesn't eat much?

 

[casportpony]

They don't always eat what's best for them. Below are gizzard contents from a deceased peacock. Cause of death was blackhead, not the contents shown below (quarter was not in gizzard, just used for a size reference).













-Kathy

 

[Michael Apple]

Looks like a thorough yard cleaning needs to happen. Lucky that stuff came out.

 

[casportpony]

Looks like a thorough yard cleaning needs to happen. Lucky that stuff came out.

If you're referring to my pictures, those items are from from one of peachicks that I sold a few months ago. It was raised in my house, so it didn't eat those here, lol.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Here's the thread on the peafowl:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...s-probable-blackhead-five-miles-from-my-place

-Kathy