Hello Marlene, Thank you for the reply. Sorry I have been away from the computer. Yes, I did bring her in the house, and for a couple days made a soup of the lay mash and gave her that with a syringe. Also, took her to a vet, who gave me antibiotic and liquid vitamin, and I also gave her liquid childrens motrin a couple days. Happy to say she is doing well now, eating cranberry sauce and oatmeal with my son. Only trouble is I think she is enjoying being spoiled and being out of the cold. I put her out in the chicken pen yesterday, and the rooster jumped all over her, so she went in the shelter. Later in the afternoon I went out and brought her in to medicate, and she went right to the food/water in cage in the house, so I assume she didn't eat or drink all day. Soooo, I kept her in last night and today. Going to catch the rooster and see if she will mingle with the other hens. If so, then I'll find a new home for the rooster.
My first time owning chickens and glad I was able to nurse one to health :)Michelle
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Marlene Johnson" <slatehouse@...> wrote:
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> Michelle,
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> >I don't think she has been eating or drinking.
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> if she is not eating or drinking that would be the first thing that needs
> to be addressed. I have never had an egg bound hen, so don't know how they
> act, but first thing would be to keep her in a safe and warm place, then
> you need to get fluids and nutrition into her. I use a tube (cat catheter)
> attached to a syringe and put that tube directly down their throat into the
> crop to administer fluids, meds and nutrition. 3 times a day is usually
> what it takes to keep them going. If her poop has been normal up until she
> acted sick and if she has good color, I would administer the fluids and
> nutrition (I use a mix of raw egg yolk, yoghurt and some vitamin/minerals
> and dilute with water, also add some hand feeding formula for birds). once
> a chicken doesn't eat or drink you can only save them with rather
> aggressive measures. But they can and often do recover if treated. You can
> look on youtube for crop feeding instructions for birds. that's how I
> learned it. Do you have any antibiotics on hand?
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> Marlene
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> Blog: http://zaltanaanatolians.blogspot.com/ and
> http://zaltanachickens.blogspot.com/
> Nevada, USA
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