fluffanfeathers
Chirping
I am UK based and have a pure silkied serama cockerel I purchased as a hen last year at 5 months old 4 weeks after ownership he started crowing…. I have had seramas a few years now and any I have normally hatched I can tell they are a boy by 6 weeks old so this little man must have been a very late developer.
Anyhow after owning him for about 2 months he had a seizure then another one a few weeks later… vets said that there is not much they can really do with him being a chicken and so tiny… so after he had 2 seizures in one week I tried him with some cbd he seemed okay for a few weeks then had another seizure so took to researching the internet and found DMG so we trialed this for a week twice a day and no seizures so went to once a day and he was seizure free for 3 months then he had another one, the only thing different was his hen he sleeps with was broody and never slept with him for 2 days when he had the seizure she went back to sleeping with him again. I upped the DMG again to twice a day, but this morning he had another seizure these 2 were a week apart.
Otherwise he is healthy gets all his right vitamins etc…. He acts as he should with his girls.. but I know we are living on borrowed time as they take their toll on him, strangely enough he only seems to have the Seizures when I am there I pick him up and cuddle him through them I see no evidence that he has them at other times I do have a camera in the coop too which I monitor…
Sorry for the essay…
My question is what else can I do to help him? Can anyone suggest what else I could try?
Anyhow after owning him for about 2 months he had a seizure then another one a few weeks later… vets said that there is not much they can really do with him being a chicken and so tiny… so after he had 2 seizures in one week I tried him with some cbd he seemed okay for a few weeks then had another seizure so took to researching the internet and found DMG so we trialed this for a week twice a day and no seizures so went to once a day and he was seizure free for 3 months then he had another one, the only thing different was his hen he sleeps with was broody and never slept with him for 2 days when he had the seizure she went back to sleeping with him again. I upped the DMG again to twice a day, but this morning he had another seizure these 2 were a week apart.
Otherwise he is healthy gets all his right vitamins etc…. He acts as he should with his girls.. but I know we are living on borrowed time as they take their toll on him, strangely enough he only seems to have the Seizures when I am there I pick him up and cuddle him through them I see no evidence that he has them at other times I do have a camera in the coop too which I monitor…
Sorry for the essay…
My question is what else can I do to help him? Can anyone suggest what else I could try?
