HELP Flubenvet overdose!!!

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We rescued a bantam silkie wandering outside a farm looking for water and brought her home (a little sister for Pumpkin our other hen). We noticed immediately that she was sneezing and shaking her head, and had a bit of clear mucous discharge from one nostril. Took her off to the vet immediately. Turned out the poultry specialist wasn't in, so she got a shot of broad spectrum antibiotic. Sneezing continued and she started gaping every now and then, so I contacted the poultry vet who advised starting her and Pumpkin on Flubenvet right away.

Trouble is, both of them got to a very concentrated mix of Flubenvet+layers pellets before we had a chance to mix it to the required dosage concentration, and ended up eating a fair amount. I've been trying to get them to eat as much non medicated food as possible since but we're very worried they have both overdosed. Please help.
 
I don't think there's a lot you can do at this stage except observe. 24 ours should see some of it go out of the system.
 
I would be more worried about disease transmission to Pumpkin, unless you have the new one in isolation. It sounds as if she has a respiratory infection, which can be very infectious and long- lasting.
Do you know by how much the girls were overdosed with Flubenvet? The normal dose is one level scoop of 1% mixture mixed into 2 kilos of feed.
 
@ Chuck: both seem fine, though Elvis is still sneezing occasionally. No other symptoms from either of them. Normal poo, normal eating and drinking, Pumpkin still laying, both perky.

@Marigold: We've been taking Pumpkin back to the farm we got Elvis from to forage "near" her old flock, so she could well have been exposed to it - and all the other lurgies that rather poorly looked after flock may have - before we got Elvis. She hasn't shown any symptoms so far and it's been a week since we got Elvis. I'm not taking either of them back now, its only a few days till we move so they can stay indoors till they have our garden.

@Chris: I went off to get some oats to add to the mix (to lure them into eating it as they love the stuff) and when I got back both the greedy little troublemakers were scoffing the concentrated first mix. In hindsight maybe they didn't have as much as I first thought. I'll keep a careful eye on both. Elvis has now had both a broad spectrum antibiotic and is being treated with Flubenvet, so that should target bacteria and helminths.

Does anyone know of any viral or fungal pathogens that could cause this, and what the treatment is? Thanks
 
Tygrysek told me that feeding them onions is a Polish remedy and from my experience it works. All ours get a handful of chopped onions every week. Seems to sort the onset of sour crop and they love it!
 
Thanks all. Both seem very well. Will try onions, I've tried garlic as well which I think worked well but their poos were horrific for a while lol
 
Ours love onions and their poos improve. Still have problems with a couple of greedy piggy Orpintons though.
 
How do you give them them the onions Chris? Raw, cooked, as a separate treat or what? Do they get a handful each or between them?
 
Just about to ask the same question margaid, got a sneezing hen due to floods not snow....
 
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