My first sick chicken 😥

Chookenmum

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Mar 14, 2025
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Hi, I have a sick hen who I haven't seen her crop full like the others, she isn't eating like the other 2 and she is thin.
I'm wondering if Resolve Jock Itch cream, ingredient Miconazole nitrate 2% is ok to use for sour crop or is Clonea Antifungal Cream, ingredient clotrimazole 10mg the right one to use? I'm sorry if I sound dumb but this is my first sick chicken.
I have 3 chickens, I wormed them 2 days ago with killverm. I used 100ml of killverm to 2 litres of water. I measured what was left and they only drank about 500-600ml between them. Is that enough for them to be properly wormed. I know I have to repeat in 2 weeks. This particular chicken is the lowest in the pecking order with with one the clear boss who can pick the feathers of the other 2 but this chicken has it done more and if she doesn't "listen to the feather pecking on her back they, mainly especially Biatch Boss, peck her around her bum tho the point you can see her skin. Sometimes this is worse than others. Just this afternoon I have noticed that my sick girl is looking like she is trying to burp. I've never seen this before.
Any help or advise is greatly appreciated.
Please be gentle😬😊
TIA
Chookenmum
 
Antifungal creams are more for treatment of sour crop. It sounds like she is not eating well. Offer some mushy wet chicken feed made fresh in a small bowl, and also give her some bits of scrambled egg, rinsed tuna, or canned cat food. Then check her crop by feeling it in early morning before she eats/drinks and again in late after noon or evening to see if it is full. What do her poops look like? Has she been laying eggs recently. What do you feed? Do you have a picture of her?
 
Antifungal creams are more for treatment of sour crop. It sounds like she is not eating well. Offer some mushy wet chicken feed made fresh in a small bowl, and also give her some bits of scrambled egg, rinsed tuna, or canned cat food. Then check her crop by feeling it in early morning before she eats/drinks and again in late after noon or evening to see if it is full. What do her poops look like? Has she been laying eggs recently. What do you feed? Do you have a picture of her?
Thanks for your reply.
With the antifungals I'm getting a bit of a first aid box together for the girls.
I have given her some tuna, tin dog food, sunflower seeds and she is still eating some scratch that I give them that I add mealworms to. Today is the second day of giving them Avi-vital in their water. I've only been getting 2 eggs for a while so I presume it's this sweet girl that hasn't been laying. It's been very hot here-Melbourne Australia. I've always had 1 that has gone off laying or had soft shells so added calcium to their water, again, now I think it must of been sweetgirl. With the feed they have a mix of- Showgirl Breed MP, PRO-VIT-MIN, with Diatomaceous Earth and Livamol added. These last 2 were suggested by where we get our stock feed, they raise chickens along with other livestock. I will check her crop. I'm going out with some scrambled egg for her.
 

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Thanks for replying.
No, I don't think she is molting. I think the boss lady pecks the other 2 but sweetgirl cops it more. The darker one is the boss lady.
 

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