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I am very sorry for your loss. You are helping me to understand she is probably nearing her end.

Crop is empty in the mornings now. Haven't seen feathers for some time. There was no cocci in the fecal float test that the vet saw.

Thank you so much for the shaking the liquid wormers info and the photos. I shook initially, but I don't remember doing it every time. I will worm the other chicken when things calm down around here with the Valbazen. I think worming Lucy now would be pointless. I will continue the amoxicillin...

@Eggcessive , I guess in taking such intimate care of her for weeks now, I was looking to a peaceful passing for her and for me. It is my understanding with the Benadryl she goes to sleep and her heart would stop. No pain, no trauma. I am attaching a photo of the dead worms from Monday. I think...

This is my third post this month regarding Lucy. I also messaged @Eggcessive last week but she believes I should post to all. I agree. It is best to have anyone who needs help to be able to see this and all postings. I apologize for the lengthy thread, but it has been a long, difficult journey...

Yes, she has constant access to grit and oyster shell calcium. She is going more for the grit and I felt it this morning in her crop. That doughy thing is being so stubborn! She freely ate pea baby food yesterday afternoon and I was so excited. She went up 3 oz this morning, still quite a ways...

Did she recover after being wormed again? I ask at this late date since I am currently going through a very similar situation. Gone through coconut oil, miconazole treatment, and now deworming again. Brought her inside Dec 29 and it has been a daily effort since without improvement. TIA

Good evening. I don't know how these chats work very well so I'm replying again to your last post. Started the Safeguard Saturday and tomorrow morning will be day 4. She still has the doughy thing in her crop and her appetite has decreased for food and water. When I put her out in the garage...

Started the Safeguard this morning. She struggles so much when I try to give her anything and it is hard to hold her still for the two stage squirt down her esophagus, but I will keep trying. I think I get the syringe down there enough it just goes rapidly to the crop. She is still pretty...

I really checked her feather production today and it looks like all the pins have poked through and most of the longer feathers are about 1" with varying lengths of shaft left. I think she initially may have had an obstruction caused by little feathers, which I saw when she started pooping...

Update edit: I consider this almost an emergency now. She is getting weaker, standing and closing her eyes, which have had a sleepy look the last two days. She won't compete to eat very close to the other chicken now - she used to be the dominant girl. She is drinking alot of water from the...

No more tapeworms. The vet thought he MIGHT see one roundworm egg. I will keep an eye out until spring and if I suspect he was right then I will worm both of them then. She's going through a lot....trying not to add too much to her stress more than I have to. After the tapeworm med a few months...

I stopped the coconut oil because she is processing what she eats. What I feel in the mornings is doughy and becomes even softer with massage after I've syringed the miconazole in there. Do I also need to still give the coconut oil? Is that to move the yeast through the system better? I read...

I suspected the alfalfa when I saw the little bits of it in her poops when the obstruction, if that's what it is, was clearing. But she also had little feathers in there as well. After the tapeworm thing in September, I put concrete patio squares in their outdoor coop/run to try to control what...

Since she is refusing the greek yogurt I just received the chicken probiotics/prebiotics yesterday. I have the Rooster Booster electrolytes, etc but since I was always giving it in their water I was advised by someone here not to do that. So only in stress times do I put that in their water now...

Current problem: One of my RIRs started a hard molt mid-December. She had a mild molt same time last year, which was her first. They will be 2 years old early March. A week ago I noticed she was dropping weight and when I gave them a treat, I noticed she was eating only a small amount and turned...

Hello, I looked at my account and it looks like I typed 1955 instead of 1956 for my birth year. Thank you for fixing me!

We have all kinds of wild birds, large and small. Also many types of four legged critters that somehow get in the fenced yard. The coop is up on a covered table on wheels and not big enough to keep them in there for long in my opinion, so I hope I don't have to go nuclear on the grass. I am...

This is great info. I was using the herbal 14 day treatment every couple of months, but recently had surgery and all kinds of things were way laid. The grass was too long and with the heat was getting watered more often, perfect for tapeworms. Lessons learned. I guess with the repeat treatments...

Yep, kinda disgusting! LOL.