I'm not positive, but I also think it could be Clostridium perfringens. You can treat it with penicillin, but there are also other drugs that will treat it. Tylan is one of them. You can research the disease and possible treatments. I have a young hen that has had lack of appetite, limping, loss of balance, droopy wing on one side, refusal to drink etc for 2+ months. Treated her for worms and coccidia, but now she is passing undigested food and has water diarrhea (sometimes) which is the key sign of C. Perfringens. Just started treatment with Tylan + Metronidazole since that is what I had at home on a weekend and my vet isn't much help at all. The hen is not looking worse, but I don't hold out a lot of hope since she's been sick for so long and probably has permanent internal damage. We'll give her a fighting chance though since she' s a sweet bird and deserves it.
Oxytetracycline. Unfortunately I ended up having to put the poor thing down Sunday. She perked up about three days into the antibiotic course, then suddenly got worse to the point of not being able to move around on her own. I performed my own necropsy, everything internally looked good. She had very little food in her, which I expected. Unfortunately my state won't do free necropsies, so I couldn't get any samples tested. The good news, however, is none of her flockmates have any of her symptoms, so I don't believe it was anything contagious.
Quote: Sorry to hear you had to put her down.I read that Clostridium is sometimes resistant to Oxytetracycline. I was treating my hen with Oxy, and she actually started getting worse when I stopped so maybe it was helping. She has good days, and then other days where she won't eat a thing. I'm sure one of these days I'll come home to find her passed away, or perhaps I'll have to do the deed myself, but I 'm still hoping she'll get better.
Our state is doing free necropsies since we've had a lot of Avian influenza going around. I'm glad the rest of your flock is doing great!
Sorry to hear you had to put her down.
Our state is doing free necropsies since we've had a lot of Avian influenza going around. I'm glad the rest of your flock is doing great!
hey Kathy I figured I would write about hawk...and tell the story on your thread...so I contacted Kathy and she helped me thru the first time tube feeding process....my birds eyes were close she was weak she wasn't eating or drinking .....and I had no tube feeding tools so we came up with the solution of a nutrient syringe which I had in the store...some 1/4 " aquarium line taking the lighter to the end that would be going down the bird and softening the end so it wouldn't puncture anything...rounding the edges of the line...and then doing a dry run on the outside to the crop and marking the tube so I knew how far to go down...first I brought the bird in from the cold weather and let it warm up then I made a quick solution of a scoop of sugar and little bit of molasses in a two cup glass of warm water...brought up 25 ml of the solution and tube fed the bird....pics below...then four hours later did the same process but put in 1/2ml of corid in with the solution...hope this is pretty accurate on what you coached me throu....and thanks she is doing great
her on the left side with the flock a couple of days later
hope this helps out for people that have to tube feed...it is a little nerve racking when you first do it....but its great when it turns out to work....also the tube should have no resistance when going down the throat if there is resistance then back up and try again...once the tube is down the bird is normally pretty calm
Albon is sulfadimethoxine, which is sold at some feed stores as Dimethox liquid and it's also sold as a powder.
