{"id":9289,"date":"2014-09-28T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=9289"},"modified":"2014-09-28T15:45:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T15:45:29","slug":"an-update-on-emerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=9289","title":{"rendered":"An update on Emerald"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am still really worried about Emerald. I talked to the vet on Friday about her. I described her symptoms and he agreed that it sounds like gape worm. He also agreed that Flubenvet was the treatment and that it should be given for seven days then given again for a further seven days after three weeks to break the worm and egg cycle.<\/p>\n

On the third day of treatment Emerald stopped gaping in the afternoon and brightened up. She ran to greet me and ran to the treats and I thought we had turned the corner.<\/p>\n

By the next morning Emerald was gaping again and spending a lot of time dozing. I haven’t found any worms while poop picking and Emerald seems to have brighter moments and then seems to go down again.<\/p>\n

We are now on day five of the flubenvet and I am not sure what I should do if she is still the same by day seven. I will pick up more flubenevet tomorrow so will ask at the vets.<\/p>\n

I am concerned that she is still gaping and lethargic but my husband pointed out that she has stopped the head shaking and he thinks maybe her throat is remaining uncomfortable and maybe the whole thing is running her down. She is eating, drinking, pooping, preening and running for treats but I would really like to see her stop gaping and back to her lively self again.<\/p>\n

I tried to get a photo of her gaping but my camera isn’t fast enough and I only managed one just as her beak was almost closed again.<\/p>\n

\"Emerald<\/a>

Emerald after gaping<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Emerald<\/a>

Emerald dozing<\/p><\/div>\n

She is spending a lot of time like this.<\/p>\n

While I was trying to get a photo of Emerald gaping Peaches and Barley had one of their little spats. I quickly turned and managed to get just one photo.<\/p>\n

\"Peaches<\/a>

Peaches and Barley with their ruffs raised<\/p><\/div>\n

They raise their ruffs and run at each other then away. It happens so quickly that it’s over in seconds and a second after this photo they were both pecking at the ground together beak to beak.<\/p>\n

I really hope Emerald starts to improve soon and will update again after talking to the vet tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am still really worried about Emerald. I talked to the vet on Friday about her. I described her symptoms and he agreed that it sounds like gape worm. He also agreed that Flubenvet was the treatment and that it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9289"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9312,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289\/revisions\/9312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}