Unsecure chicken perches

[brambles]

Hi,

My creamlegbar has been little under the weather, which I thought was moult.

 

Recently we lost one of our chicks (separate housing) to blackhead. The entire flock has been on antibiotics and wormer for five days now. The rest of the chicks and adult hens seem ok. We will be finishing the wormer then deworming again in a fortnight on vet advice.

 

I noticed she was withdrawn at the time and for the last four nights she has had 1ml of nutridrops. She has rejoined her friends over the last few days and has been scratting around. Her face and comb look much redder.

 

All good news, but she is still painfully thin and every night I cannot feel her crop at all, whereas the others all have nice full crops. I'm sure she will put on condition but am worried that her crop seems empty at night.

 

She has been eating and drinking. I'm going to watch tomorrow to see that she continues to do so.

 

Any advice or experiences to share?

[coco]

My vet swears by baby food, I had a young hen with cocci who was very ill and had lost a lot of weight. He suggested stage 1 baby food as it can be syringed into the hen and is high in protien. Only problenm is you end up with an orange hen.

[Pikey]

My vet also recommended this one of mine who was poorly.......and then to give her growers pellets to increase protein.

[brambles]

Ok, what flavour! I take it that it was carrot flavour? Im pretty sure the nutrition drops have helped her to perk up.