Re: Sick biddie

Tapper wrote: 
Hello, All!

Thanks for all of your help with my bumblefoot duck. I searched and searched
and finally found a local vet that does poultry;  after being told several
times that they don't have a poultry vet at that practice, the day I arrived
there was another duck in being examined (!!!!).  So she's lanced, drained,
soaked, swabbed, medicated, and looking much better.

So now the only chicken remaining from my very first foray into poultry is
sick.  A couple weeks ago she had a blue comb, trouble breathing, a tight
abdomen (at her rear, below her vent) and diarrhea.   From the vet she's had
10 days of Bactrin for a resp infection.  There were cecal worms and
coccidia in her stool, so then she got one shot of Strongid in her mouth and
6 days of Albon in her water.  I also put diamotaceous earth in her food.  A
couple days after the Strongid her belly wasn't so tight anymore, but it's
never gone down.  She eats sporadically and is pretty thin and wobbly on her
feet.  She doesn't fight or run away and is generally dazed.  She didn't
like the Albon water so I squirted it down her throat a couple times a day
to make sure she got it in her.

What else??  this morning I saw that her comb is getting a bit blue at the
tip although she's not heaving or gasping.  I called the vet to take her
back in and they said that the poultry vet is gone for the NEXT TWO WEEKS.
It takes the visiting vet weeks to get down to me, so I am really stuck.
She's been isolated for almost two weeks.   I let her out today to see if
she'll maybe perk up if she gets to walk around in the grass.  She did give
a couple clucks to the other birds, but otherwise she acts dazed and just
stands there.  I'm keeping a close eye on her.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.  She is my favorite bird.

Thanks all, and happy 4th to my fellow Yanks
--Pat


Pat, I think, that your quirting 'might' have gone down the wrong way. The blue comb would indicate an oxygen shortage, or extreme cold. As you have not mentioned cold I will assume that summer is in full swing and go back to the oxygen.

The fact that you have been treating her for a resp infection so I would guess that it is either not responding to the treatment, or you have quirted the albon water into her lungs.

I am not sure if the vet told you, but respaitory infection in fowl is very often fatal as the birds bones are involved in respiration and any infection has a habit of becoming an infection in the bones of the bird.

Could you tell me what the diamotaceous was included in her diet for? I have never heard of it, and might learn something here. It would never enter my head to put something I associate with swimming pool filters in to their food.

As the vet identified worms, you should have treated her for worms as well as the rest of the flock. Phenothiazine will control those specific worms.

As the cecal worms are heavily indicated in the disease blackhead you should be very careful in thinking of ever raising turkeys
http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12150_12220-26481--,00.html

For your information, the following is a fairly good veterinary guide to poultry. Although it has a bias for it's sponsors products.
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/202900.htm


Matt
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