HELP!! Sicks chickens

[Schmidt Hill Farm]

I’ve been battling sick baby chicks and now my pullets are getting sick too. First I had chicks that had wry neck. I thought it was a vitamin deficiency so I do them up on vitamin e, selenium, b1, nutri drenched and electrolytes. Those chicks are 100% better now. I started with respiratory issues. I lost three of them and one is still kind of sick but getting better I think. I have older chicks that are sick too. I have a 13 week old lavender Orpington that dropped one of her wings and at first I thought she was injured until I noticed another one dropped her wings yesterday but they’re not as bad as the lavender. When I woke this morning to let the chickens out I noticed another one is getting wet neck. I don’t know if this is from parasites, vitamin deficiency or something way worse. How do I tell and how do I fix it? I have videos, but I don’t know how to upload them.

 

[coach723]

If you post video's to another host, like youtube, and put the link here, they can be seen.
Are they eating, drinking? What do droppings look like?
Are all of them housed together?
Do you also have adult birds, or just the babies and the 13 week olds? Pictures would be helpful.

 

[Schmidt Hill Farm]

If you post video's to another host, like youtube, and put the link here, they can be seen.
Are they eating, drinking? What do droppings look like?
Are all of them housed together?
Do you also have adult birds, or just the babies and the 13 week olds? Pictures would be helpful.

They are eating and drinking. I think the poo looks normal and they share a coop split in half with adult birds but have their own separate run. They have been drinking out of the duck pond so I don’t know if that is a contributing factor or not

 

[Schmidt Hill Farm]

If you post video's to another host, like youtube, and put the link here, they can be seen.
Are they eating, drinking? What do droppings look like?
Are all of them housed together?
Do you also have adult birds, or just the babies and the 13 week olds? Pictures would be helpful.

Their crops are empty so I guess they aren’t eating. I’m going to put them in a cage in my shed so I can keep a better eye on them

 

[coach723]

What are you feeding? Were these all purchased chicks, or hatched at home? Vitamin deficiencies can start inside the egg, passed from the parent stock sometimes. A B complex or super B complex is better than just giving B1, thiamine and riboflavin in particular can be contributors. I don't see anything obvious. Since you've had so many with symptoms, I would recommend that if you lose another one that you have it necropsied so you can find out for sure what is going on. They can do labs and look for viral causes as well as bacteria.

 

[Schmidt Hill Farm]

What are you feeding? Were these all purchased chicks, or hatched at home? Vitamin deficiencies can start inside the egg, passed from the parent stock sometimes. A B complex or super B complex is better than just giving B1, thiamine and riboflavin in particular can be contributors. I don't see anything obvious. Since you've had so many with symptoms, I would recommend that if you lose another one that you have it necropsied so you can find out for sure what is going on. They can do labs and look for viral causes as well as bacteria.

That’s what I plan on doing. They eat show flow developer in the red bag. I plan on switching to the starter grower on Friday. I gave the 2 most obvious birds nutri drench earlier and I put all 3 birds in quarantine. The baby chicks with wry neck made a full recovery

 

[Roostergirl76]

Their crops are empty so I guess they aren’t eating. I’m going to put them in a cage in my shed so I can keep a better eye on them

Looks like pesticides got in the duck pond chickens are more susceptible than ducks

 

[Schmidt Hill Farm]

Looks like pesticides got in the duck pond chickens are more susceptible than ducks

I didn’t think about that I spray permethrin 10 in the chicken yard to keep flies and mites at bay.

 

[Roostergirl76]

I didn’t think about that I spray permethrin 10 in the chicken yard to keep flies and mites at bay.

If these symptoms have just come on it can be 3 main things the environment their feed or their water. I doubt it’s environmental because not all are affected are they? A lot of things can end up in water even if it’s chemical run off 500 metres away it can still find its way through a body of water to you unless your on higher ground of course. The way they look contorted could be pesticide toxicity or something nasty in that water I just don’t think vitamin deficiency would be that sudden in onset there are a couple of diseases that can cause that too but it’s neurological symptoms that I see in those pics

 

[Roostergirl76]

If these symptoms have just come on it can be 3 main things the environment their feed or their water. I doubt it’s environmental because not all are affected are they? A lot of things can end up in water even if it’s chemical run off 500 metres away it can still find its way through a body of water to you unless your on higher ground of course. The way they look contorted could be pesticide toxicity or something nasty in that water I just don’t think vitamin deficiency would be that sudden in onset there are a couple of diseases that can cause that too but it’s neurological symptoms that I see in those pics

Permethrin is virtually harmless to birds