HELP! Weak silkie (link to videos)

[Chickendilly]

Hello!

New Chicken Mama! I have two eight-week-old silkies and another four 8-week old standards (EE, Welsummer, Spitzhauben). The one silkie is very small and seems unstable on her feet. She walks like she's top-heavy. She eats, she drinks, she happily pecks around, she keeps up with the other chicks, but she stumbles like she's drunk. She also tends to get knocked over by the bigger ones (not on purpose, they all seem to look out for her). She also sits to eat more than the others do.

They've only been outside in their run and coop since Friday, but this started about a week and a half ago. She seemed to improve when I added Rooster Booster to their water and started giving her Kaeco Selenium and Vitamin E Gel (trying to, she doesn't like it). But, then it stopped improving (but doesn't seem worse). Sometimes she makes it into the coop and up to the roosts (but sleeps in the poop tray underneath the others) and sometimes she is on the bottom of the coop by the ramp to roosts because she can't make it up so I move her.

I've uploaded two videos to YouTube so you can see what I mean.

What can I do for her?

 

[nuthatched]

It could be failure to thrive or a runt.
Are you also giving b complex?

 

[Chickendilly]

It could be failure to thrive or a runt.
Are you also giving b complex?

No, not B complex. What and how should I administer that? I would think failure to thrive if she weren't eagerly eating, scratching, etc. Other than her drunken stupor, she seems fine.

 

[nuthatched]

No, not B complex. What and how should I administer that? I would think failure to thrive if she weren't eagerly eating, scratching, etc. Other than her drunken stupor, she seems fine.

Silkies are prone to B vitamin deficiency, you cam get liquid or gel from the feed store, usually for livestock or you can any brand of tablets from the grocery storeand give her a third every day. Just put it in her beak and she'll swallow it.

 

[Chickendilly]

Silkies are prone to B vitamin deficiency, you cam get liquid or gel from the feed store, usually for livestock or you can any brand of tablets from the grocery storeand give her a third every day. Just put it in her beak and she'll swallow it.

Thank you! I have a Kirkland brand Super B complex? Can I give her that?

 

[nuthatched]

Thank you! I have a Kirkland brand Super B complex? Can I give her that?

Perfect.

 

[Chickendilly]

Perfect.

Thank you so much for your help. I will make her some scrambled eggs and put in some crushed B-complex.

 

[nuthatched]

Thank you so much for your help. I will make her some scrambled eggs and put in some crushed B-complex.

Great, just keep up the treatment every day, it's essential she gets at least a third of tablet every day.

 

[Chickendilly]

Great, just keep up the treatment every day, it's essential she gets at least a third of tablet every day.

I took her out of the run and put her inside with egg yolk mixed with the B-complex and water with nutridrench. But she is so stubborn, she won't eat or drink any of it. But she eats eagerly when out in the run. I'll keep her inside for the day because she'll have to get hungry and thirsty eventually.

 

[nuthatched]

I took her out of the run and put her inside with egg yolk mixed with the B-complex and water with nutridrench. But she is so stubborn, she won't eat or drink any of it. But she eats eagerly when out in the run. I'll keep her inside for the day because she'll have to get hungry and thirsty eventually.

You can get an oral syringe from a pharmacy and squirt it into her mouth,