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[j00lz_12366]

I had to take betty to the vets before-she has developed a limp and I read up on the clinic that it was likely to need some assistance top clear up. The vet checked her over and said she is fine, weight good, reflexes good and that there was no sign of a break or anything so he would just give us some anti-inflammatories for her. All seemes fine til we tried to give it her..she wouldnt open her beak! we tried prising it apart but she just wasnt having it. In the end we put the liquid onto some pellets and fed them to her. What are we doing wrong?

[karlotta]

I had exactly this problem a week or so ago. My favorelle girl had to have her fifth toe amputated (deformed since hatching but only just started troubling her) and she was sent home with capsule antibiotics and liquid anti-inflamatories. I found that dripping the liquid on the side of her beak towards the end, she would lick it in. I had to do the antibiotics dissolved in a teeny bit of water twice a day and the other once... We got rather expert at it! I found the prising the beak open option was a no-go too.. She got far too stressed with that.

 

Good luck!

[Guest]

i always ask the vet to give me any meds in tablet form as they much easier to administer.

 

what you could try is using a bit of bread or cake to soak the liquid up and give it to her that way?

 

in my experience it is very difficult to get a hen to open her beak and to keep open and even if you do manage to get the liquid in, they shake their head and it goes eveeywhere.

 

Can you maybe ask for tablets instead?

[karlotta]

How on earth do you give a chicken a tablet?

[Guest]

How on earth do you give a chicken a tablet?

 

we slit open a grape or raisin, stick it in and give it to them.

[j00lz_12366]

thanks for that, it sounds like the pellets were an ok thing to do-there was only a few and she ate them all..

 

hopefully we'll see an improvement soon

[Heidi-Hi]

I've been giving my Wyandotte antibiotics by syringe since last Friday twice a day. It is banana flavoured I just pick her up, wrap her in a towel, tuck her under my arm and she opens her beak just a sliver. I slip the syringe in and when she feels it in her mouth she opens a bit more, by which time I have dispensed the syringe. Only once so far did she not want to open her mouth, but we managed in the end. I also watched the vet doing it the first time when I took them, but it is a two man job. One person hold the chicken, and the other one cup their hand around the head, open the beak and in it goes. That worked too when I had my husband to help me. Good luck!

[Alis girls]

I think if they are very ill like my hen was you could prob do it - a more feisty chuck is more difficult. We had to prise Bathshebas beak open - not easy but she was so unwell she didnt put up much fight.

[JS1]

When I had to administer Metacam I chopped up some grape quite small, syringed the Metacam over it and the chicken cleared the lot. When I had to syringe something direct into a chicken's mouth I got my friend to do it on account of her wide experience with horses, dogs, chickens, cats and children. She uses the same method with all, I think

[The Dogmother]

You should be able to open their beak by slipping your thumb and index finger nails into it - easy peasy.

[gongladosh]

When our , Kiki (now our ex-boss hen sadly) had peritonitis and an additional gut infection we gave her medication like this:

 

Metacam (anti-inflam) doesn't seem to have that bad a taste, so we put that in a small ball of porridge (Kiki loved her porridge) and she wolfed that down in one.

 

Baytril by all accounts doesn't taste that pleasant to hens, and you have to syringe it directly in if supplied as a liquid... What you do is this (and your hen will not thank you for it. Keep talking to her to keep her calm.):

 

-you sit on your knees, legs open

-you get the hen between your legs so she can't back out

-arm goes beneath the hen's chest so she can't duck down to escape

-one hand gently holds her head (which will be moving about like mad) back a bit (their beak is easier to open then) and parts the beak

- after a couple of mins of failing, you'll get an opportunity to stick the syringe in and squirt.

- once squirted, hold the head up - this will effectively keep the beak shut- if the head goes back down, she won't swallow.

- after another 10 seconds she will have swallowed enough (she'll manage to spit a little out)

 

Once that's done, she'll start opening and closing her beak a bit to get rid of the taste...

Give her a pat and some nice food to take away the taste...

[Redwing]

I put the chook in the crook of my arm, push her head back to my shoulder with that hand and use it to squeeze her beak so it opens, I then hold the head between my thumb and index finger to keep it still and use my third finger between the beak to keep it open

 

then I use my free hand to syringe the meds in

 

Its a bit of a knack but practice runs with a small drop of tasty diluted ribena (which chooks love) help greatly and it makes the rare cases when a chook is ill far less stressful if she is used to being manhandled

[stoice]

I do as gongladosh but also wrap her in a tea towel when they're alert they can still wriggle free. I also found as I lean over the chook and they try to lean back away from my syringe hand that my *ahem* bosom stops her head wiggling left to right too. (Or is that just me?)