6 home remedies for a sick chicken: Reduce swelling with honey, use molasses as a laxative, acidify the crop with white vinegar

In the event that you're gotten short with a debilitated chicken, a home cure might help.

Words: Sue Clarke and Nadene Lobby

At the point when a chicken becomes ill, you will most likely be unable to get prompt assistance from your vet.

Notwithstanding, you could approach a cure in your kitchen or clothing.

A home cure might give a creature help and give you an opportunity to source more powerful drug and exhortation. Kindly don't depend on home cures alone assuming you have an evil bird. Get counsel from a vet quickly.  

A portion of the 'cures' you read about online may add to the general prosperity of your birds. It's profoundly far-fetched they will be a remedy for a parasite trouble or an infectious sickness.

Generally speaking, there is no science to demonstrate they work. In all cases, any cure ought to be utilized with alert: first cause no damage. 'Cures' you find could be poisonous, or don't do anything by any means.

Coming up next are a portion of the more normal things you can attempt, where research or potentially long haul use have shown they can have benefits.

Caution

Be careful while utilizing home cures. Try not to substitute comparative items, ie don't substitute paracetamol for ibuprofen. Converse with a vet about any disease quickly.

1. Anti-inflammatory medicine Arrangement

Activity: pain reliever, mitigating

For side effects of fever and laziness, to mitigate side effects of viral contaminations in the event that no other treatment is accessible.

Portion: The most ideal choice is to utilize solvent headache medicine (brand name Disprin in New Zealand) in a modest quantity of water. Call your vet to get a satisfactory portion rate for your bird as it will rely upon their weight.

Alert: don't manage ibuprofen to a bird getting antibiotic medication, insulin, allopurinol or other NSAID drugs.

2. Juice OR WHITE VINEGAR

Activity: ferments sharp harvest; can eliminate pH-delicate microscopic organisms (terrible and great); astringent for making a sound as if to speak

The fixing that makes vinegar helpful is acidic corrosive. It brings down the pH or acridity level, killing a few kinds of microbes (great and terrible). It very well may be utilized as an astringent to assist make a sound as if to speak of a bird with a respiratory sickness.

It can ferment crop contents for a situation of sharp harvest. It might help in instances of enteritis, however never use it for more than 2-3 days. It can assist with inhibiting the development of miniature life forms in the stomach and further develop feed use.

Portion: 2ml of 10% ('cleaning') vinegar to 2 liters of water. Offer for 2-3 days straight each month (schedule), and for 2-3 days when a bird has enteritis.

Caution: never offer birds undiluted vinegar as it can consume their throats and stomach related framework.

3. MOLASSES Arrangement

Activity: purgative, mineral enhancement Adding molasses to drinking water can make a diuretic difference, flushing the stomach on the off chance that a bird eats a harmful substance, or on the other hand assuming it has scouring brought about by a bacterial disease.

Portion: disintegrate 50ml of molasses in 2 liters of water; propose to impacted birds north of 4 hours, then, at that point, supplant with new water. Treat birds independently in the event that they won't drink.

Likewise offer free decision (notwithstanding new water) more than seven days as it contains a few useful minerals that are lost during times of looseness of the bowels.

4. SUCROSE SOLUTION

Action: energy supplement

Sugar and honey can be used on the swollen tissue of a prolapse, to reduce swelling by drawing fluid out, allowing it to be (gently) pushed back inside the vent.

Dose: sprinkle a layer of granulated sugar or smear honey on the prolapse. You may need to wait an hour or so for the swelling to go down so keep the patient still and quiet during this time. Ointment used for human hemorrhoid's (piles) can also reduce the swelling of a prolapse.

Sue’s tip

If a bird has an area of skin that is being pecked by other birds, mix some tea tree oil into petroleum jelly, then apply to the skin. It can help prevent injury by repelling the attacking birds.

6. ELECTROLYTES

Action: to restore levels of electrolytes (eg, sodium, potassium), hydration

Electrolytes help birds recover from stress. This could be due to transport and rehousing in a new flock, if a bird is not eating due to illness, has diarrheas', is over-heated, or if they’ve not had access to water. 

Dose: you can buy ready-mixed avian electrolytes like Poly-Aid Plus from a vet or pet store. You could use electrolytes for people or other livestock, or make your own if you have the right ingredients (see below). Use in place of water for one week. Feed should be available at all times.

How to make an electrolyte mix

INGREDIENTS

⅓ tsp potassium chloride
½ tsp sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)
1 tsp sodium chloride (salt)

METHOD

Dissolve in 1 liter of water. Use in place of water for one week.