Swollen foot. ADVICE PLEASE~~

[R3M1X]

So I have a light brahma. She is 7.5 weeks old and at first the issue was that she was being pushed away from the food and has become severely underweight and is 3× smaller than her two sisters of the same breed and age and even smaller than the smallest breeds I have that are a week younger than her. You can see how scrawny she is here. I have put her in a separate plastic carrier so I can monitor her eating and drinking.

She seems to be doing okay in that respect but since it has barely been a week, it doesnt seem she has gain hardly any weight. If she has its minimal but she does eat until her crop is full or mostly full.
Now today I noticed her right foot is swollen and she doesn't want to walk if she doesn't have to. She will just lay down and close her eyes and not move at all.

I do not see any wounds on her foot and was considering if she was stung by a wasp or something? I am not sure. I have never encountered something like them.

I feel bad because she makes a vibrated whistle sound and chirps constantly. She was doing perfectly fine yesterday and I am unsure what to do to help her. Both with her foot and second to get her to gain weight and grow normally.

 

[R3M1X]

I am worried triplely because her poop looks bad as well I am worried there is something very wrong with her. She has been vaccinated when she was a day old for Merek (or whatever it is called). So that should be ruled out if that was a possible issue.

 

[R3M1X]

I should also mention she does have normal poop as well but it goes back and forth.

 

[DobieLover]

I should also mention she does have normal poop as well but it goes back and forth.

Sorry your little girl isn't doing well.

I would start her on Corid ASAP as, in addition to the mucousy poop, she has that puffed up look of a bird suffering from coccidiosis.

Using the 9.6% liquid version, draw up about 0.2 mls in a syringe (with NO needle) and put a drop on top of the tip of her beak and let it wick into her mouth.
She should swallow it. Keep repeating that a drop at a time until she takes the full 0.2 mls. I would not try to syringe it into her mouth as she looks weak and you may aspirate her.

I would drench her this way for 3 - 5 days in a row.

In addition to drenching her, mix up Corid water at a rate of 2 tsp. per gallon of water. Give her this as her only source of drinking water. Monitor her water intake. You can make a gallon of this solution and keep it in the refrigerator. Give her fresh Corid water from the gallon daily for 5-7 days.

Then make up a solution of 1 tsp Corid to a gallon of water and continue that for another 7 days.

As for the rest of her issues, I wonder if she could have broken a bone in the foot. As you already have her isolated, there isn't much more you can do about that.

Try offering her a mash made out of her food. If she won't eat that, entice her with some scrambled egg or wet cat food. When she is done with the Corid treatment, you can add about 1/2 ml of Poultry nutri-drench to her mash once a day to help build her back up. You may also want to offer probiotics to help repair her gut.

Keep her in a warm, quiet location to recover. I hope she makes it.

 

[Jealous Gypsy]

Sorry your little girl isn't doing well.

I would start her on Corid ASAP as, in addition to the mucousy poop, she has that puffed up look of a bird suffering from coccidiosis.

Using the 9.6% liquid version, draw up about 0.2 mls in a syringe (with NO needle) and put a drop on top of the tip of her beak and let it wick into her mouth.
She should swallow it. Keep repeating that a drop at a time until she takes the full 0.2 mls. I would not try to syringe it into her mouth as she looks weak and you may aspirate her.

I would drench her this way for 3 - 5 days in a row.

In addition to drenching her, mix up Corid water at a rate of 2 tsp. per gallon of water. Give her this as her only source of drinking water. Monitor her water intake. You can make a gallon of this solution and keep it in the refrigerator. Give her fresh Corid water from the gallon daily for 5-7 days.

Then make up a solution of 1 tsp Corid to a gallon of water and continue that for another 7 days.

As for the rest of her issues, I wonder if she could have broken a bone in the foot. As you already have her isolated, there isn't much more you can do about that.

Try offering her a mash made out of her food. If she won't eat that, entice her with some scrambled egg or wet cat food. When she is done with the Corid treatment, you can add about 1/2 ml of Poultry nutri-drench to her mash once a day to help build her back up. You may also want to offer probiotics to help repair her gut.

Keep her in a warm, quiet location to recover. I hope she makes it.

I have not used corrid, but i will say that yogurt is great for the probiotics part, my chicks love it, and it helps give weak or sick chicks an antibody boost.

 

[DobieLover]

I have not used corrid, but i will say that yogurt is great for the probiotics part, my chicks love it, and it helps give weak or sick chicks an antibody boost.

Corid is amprolium and used to treat coccidiosis.
Chickens should have limited dairy as they can't process lactose.
I ferment my chickens feed for probiotics.

 

[R3M1X]

This foot is really worrying me is there anything I can do to elevate the swelling? How can I tell if it is broke or if it is full of infection?

 

[R3M1X]

Corid is amprolium and used to treat coccidiosis.
Chickens should have limited dairy as they can't process lactose.
I ferment my chickens feed for probiotics.

I used to ferment my feed and my chickens loved it they would fly over to the feed troughs during every feeding, but when I noticed her being underweight and I was told by another user here that wet feed can cause crop issues. so I stopped fermenting the food and started giving them dry. Though they arent as excited to get fed anymore I didnt want them having any issues.

 

[DobieLover]

I used to ferment my feed and my chickens loved it they would fly over to the feed troughs during every feeding, but when I noticed her being underweight and I was told by another user here that wet feed can cause crop issues. so I stopped fermenting the food and started giving them dry. Though they arent as excited to get fed anymore I didnt want them having any issues.

Wet feed and fermented feed are not necessarily the same thing. I've never fed anything but fermented and have never had a crop issue.

 

[Jealous Gypsy]

Yeah but yogurt is fine if its not given regularly, thre is an entire thread about it on here. But its your decision.

Corid is amprolium and used to treat coccidiosis.
Chickens should have limited dairy as they can't process lactose.
I ferment my chickens feed for probiotics.