Lost on this help. Need help

[FreedomGalTx]

I have a Wyandotte who stopped laying. I thought one was pecking her feathers. All of a sudden her breathing sounds like human pneumonia....she is eating & drinking fine, maybe sitting more than usual. I gave her colloidal Silver then we noticed 3 things. 1) she appears to have dandruff? 2) her feathers are literally just falling off. 3) worm segments in her poop. Added vetrx and have a dose equinox de wormer. Put her separate in a cage. The other four are fine. Worms are straight forward. We had one with upper respiratory last year but this sounds waaay different. As if you hear fluids in the neck area as she breathes. I have doxy liquid on hand but figured I would try colloidal Silver 1st. The feather/ skin thing has me baffled. I did notice yesterday her sister Wyandotte seemed to be "groom eating" off her feathers. Looks just like dandruff. Can anyone offer any help? Idk if the 3rd pic shows the white flakes

 

[nuthatched]

do you mean equimax dewormer?
What's their diet? Have you checked for lice or mites? Any d.e, ash or lime that could bother her?

 

[nuthatched]

Ok. Yesterday her poop was clear, I would have noticed, also no gurgling noise. When giving her colloidal Silver & Vetrx she pooped & bam worm segments
So I gave her one less than pea size paste dose. And as a matter of fact for the first time buying(I usually use DE, the flies got bad in South Texas in the run so I put lime on the ground. I did look at her feathers but im not actually sure I could identify mites. She us the only one of 5 with any of these things that I see.

Scrape up the DE and lime for now. Equimax is dosed by weight, the 'pea sized dose' is not accurate.

 

[FreedomGalTx]

I'm aware of the inaccurate pea size dose. I did
.1 on 1ml syringe
It did seem to work last time. What would mites look like & would they make her feathers fall off? Wouldn't the rest have them? They have 3 dust bath areas including the sand under my pool deck, regular dirt with a little DE always mixed in. This was time I put down Saturday Lime(rip off) on the ground

 

[nuthatched]

What's their diet?

 

[FreedomGalTx]

Diet hasn't changed. They forage morning & evening in the back yard. New Organics layer crumble with scratch & dried mealworms as a daily treat. All same for the last year. Apple Cider Vinegar in water in the summer. Now I'm scared of Mareks after seeing another feather loss post. I'm going to check her vent area & skin where feathers are really good before they roost. Her voice sounds normal but her breathing sounds like there is fluid like human crackles with pneumonia (sorry I'm a people nurse ) I do have a problem with wild birds getting into the run through the chicken wire. I didn't think about that when I built it. The coop smaller run is 1/4inch.

 

[Kiki]

Diet hasn't changed. They forage morning & evening in the back yard. New Organics layer crumble with scratch & dried mealworms as a daily treat. All same for the last year. Apple Cider Vinegar in water in the summer. Now I'm scared of Mareks after seeing another feather loss post. I'm going to check her vent area & skin where feathers are really good before they roost. Her voice sounds normal but her breathing sounds like there is fluid like human crackles with pneumonia (sorry I'm a people nurse ) I do have a problem with wild birds getting into the run through the chicken wire. I didn't think about that when I built it. The coop smaller run is 1/4inch.

Don't worry about Marek's disease coming in from wild birds. You are more likely to bring the dease home if you buy chickens from someone else.
Tapeworms and gurgling aren't a sign of Marek's.

 

[FreedomGalTx]

Scratch and mealworms daily aren't good either. That's a lot of fat and takes away from the balanced diet of the crumbled feed.


Did she just start the gurgling after you gave her the equimax?

No. I did the eqiluimax last. I don't do the Scratch everyday but my husband just won't stop with "treats" no matter how many times I say a treat isn't everyday. He's an ass when it comes to this, and is retired

 

[Kiki]

No. I did the eqiluimax last. I don't do the Scratch everyday but my husband just won't stop with "treats" no matter how many times I say a treat isn't everyday. He's an ass when it comes to this, and is retired

I'll find a few pictures for you to show him of what happens to hens that eat treats daily. Maybe the pictures will help him to see what it causes.

Your bird that's breathing funny...may already be suffering.

Antibiotics from a vet are one option to try. If a vet is not an option let me know and I'll pm you something.

 

[nuthatched]

What is the protein of the feed? I'd cut the scratch andctreats down to once a week.
Any mucus? Eye bubbles?