EMERGENCY - TRYING TO HELP A FRIEND

[tripletfeb]

Those are very good videos, thanks for them. If this was my bird, I would put Nutridrench or something similar directly into the beak. Make sure the bird isin't too hot or cold and wait for others to chime in. @azygous @Eggcessive

 

[RememberTheWay]

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Those are very good videos, thanks for them. If this was my bird, I would put Nutridrench or something similar directly into the beak. Make sure the bird isin't too hot or cold and wait for others to chime in. @azygous @Eggcessive

We have. What is throwing me is the curled toes she has. They weren't curled at first but this has been about a wk of progressive decline. It started with wobblyness and lack of balance.

Personally, knowing that they were fed medicated fed for extended time, coupled with the silkie/d'uccle DNA, and the curled toes I am leaning towards thiamine deficiency. But I also do not have personal experience with Marek's or thiamine deficiency and would love to hear if there are some determining factors between the two.....

Thanks for your response btw. I feel like I'm not doing enough and am on the edge of my seat waiting for advice from someone with more experience with these ailments.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would use human B complex which has riboflavin to help curled toes and other vitamin b deficiencies. I would consider using a sling for the pullet to get her upright and in front of food and water. Here is a good link for slings especially the first 2 pages:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/
There is a blood test on a live chicken collected from trimming a toenail too short that can be sent off to RAL labs in TX. You would need to call them and get the test supplies here:
https://www.vetdna.com/application/forms/chickenfowlsubmittalform.pdf
I think U of GA also may offer a similar test. Most people get testing for Mareks when a bird dies, and the body is sent to the state vet lab for a necropsy. Here is a list of state vets to contact about that:
https://www.metzerfarms.com/poultry-labs.html

 

[Barnette]

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Poor baby!!! She looks so confused

 

[TillyPeeps]

When reading your descriptions, I was thinking Marek's. But after watching the videos, I'm learning towards injury or other type of nerve damage. First, she is a little too young to be sick from Marek's, which is most common in 16w to 24w old young chickens but could happen in younger (very rarely younger than 10w) or older chickens. Second, she has much more energy and better control of her body than my paralyzed pullets with Marek's. Anyway, vitamin B complex will help nerve damage. If she has injury, a sling as what Eggcessive suggested would be helpful.

 

[RememberTheWay]

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When reading your descriptions, I was thinking Marek's. But after watching the videos, I'm learning towards injury or other type of nerve damage. First, she is a little too young to be sick from Marek's, which is most common in 16w to 24w old young chickens but could happen in younger (very rarely younger than 10w) or older chickens. Second, she has much more energy and better control of her body than my paralyzed pullets with Marek's. Anyway, vitamin B complex will help nerve damage. If she has injury, a sling as what Eggcessive suggested would be help

Another piece of information I forgot to add is that the day all this began my friend said her husband was doing yard work and heard commotion in the run and one of the chickens screeching. He ran over thinking something had got to them but by the time he got there everything was back to normal and he couldn't tell who had made the commotion. Then later that day this pullet began showing signs of loss of balance. We had thought injury at first but I can't see anything visually wrong with her.

 

[RememberTheWay]

When reading your descriptions, I was thinking Marek's. But after watching the videos, I'm learning towards injury or other type of nerve damage. First, she is a little too young to be sick from Marek's, which is most common in 16w to 24w old young chickens but could happen in younger (very rarely younger than 10w) or older chickens. Second, she has much more energy and better control of her body than my paralyzed pullets with Marek's. Anyway, vitamin B complex will help nerve damage. If she has injury, a sling as what Eggcessive suggested would be helpful.

Ok. This makes me feel better. I am going to make a sling and get her up in it

 

[RememberTheWay]

When reading your descriptions, I was thinking Marek's. But after watching the videos, I'm learning towards injury or other type of nerve damage. First, she is a little too young to be sick from Marek's, which is most common in 16w to 24w old young chickens but could happen in younger (very rarely younger than 10w) or older chickens. Second, she has much more energy and better control of her body than my paralyzed pullets with Marek's. Anyway, vitamin B complex will help nerve damage. If she has injury, a sling as what Eggcessive suggested would be helpful.

Also she seems to be attempting to stand up, and has some use of both legs which she shuffles back and forth to get under her, almost similar to splay leg but different, when she does this shuffling, it is almost flipping her over. Like she will tilt forward onto her crop/breast and then almost do a summersault type of flip. Friend said she actually did end up on her back a couple times and had to be flipped back over.

I have made scrambled eggs with nutritional yeast and fed those to her and given a direct dose of 1ML of poultry cell. Is the poultry cell enough or should I do an actual human b complex instead? Do b vitamins need another vitamin or mineral to be absorbed better? I know almost all the others work in tandem with something or even as trios. Like selenium and vitamin E. Should she also be getting extra vitamin e?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Looks like curled toe paralysis, which is a Vitamin B2 Deficiency. Takes several weeks to a month to treat depending on severity.

 

[RememberTheWay]

Looks like curled toe paralysis, which is a Vitamin B2 Deficiency. Takes several weeks to a month to treat depending on severity.

Thank you so much. I'm going to build a chair/sling and help to rehab the bird of I can.