Vitamin E deficiency and "Crazy Chick Disease" - Photos added post #5

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I'm using Tucker Milling chick starter. The other 6 chicks on this same feed are fine. I got the Bovidr Labs Poultry Drench you recommended, and she's doing great. As I said in another post, although I don't see her but several times a day, I haven't noticed a single incidence of symptomology. I've talked with a vet who suggests keeping her on the supplement for at least a full week. She said it won't effect the other pullers that are with her. I have no way of separating her from my mini flock. Thank you so very much. I really appreciate the advice. I'll let y'all know how she does.
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I just realized you said something about my having a bad batch of feed before. No, not before, this is the only chick I've had with crazy chick. Vet told me that there could be no true cause other than the chick just didn't uptake properly...similar to a child developing iron deficiency when siblings don't. It just happened. I fed my older pulleys the same feed until the went on crumbles and scratch, these chicks are all fine (a total of seven the same age, and two 13 week olds that still pick at the starter as well as scratch and pellets) except for my jg. I don't think it's the feed, but the chick.

Charlotte
 
I too experienced this problem when I first started raising chickens. I tried using various vitamin supplements with varying degrees of success. A friend who had been in the business for years suggested a product that he used, Avia Charge-2000. This is an all natural nutritional supplement that contains all the vitamins, trace minerals, amino acids, etc. that you will need. He stated that these components were in a naturally chelated form. Didn't know what that meant so I look it up. It seems as that supplements contain inorganic mineral sources. It stated that most inorganic mineral sources are only 10-20% available. A naturally chelated mineral means that it is biologically available to the animal I learned a valuable lesson and still continue to use these products. I hope I was able to help you as someone once helped me.
 
I found a good way to get the Vitamin E into the chicken. I bought the one that says Vitamin E in "prelacaps" with Selenium. It's easy to make a small incision into the the perlecap with something sharp. I squeeze the oily stuff into the open end of a syringe. Then I cook some elbow macaroni. I then inject the brown stuff into one end of the pasta until it comes out the other end. My sick chicken ate them up without any struggling.
 
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mandelyn said:
Yesterday I got some photos of what this looks like. She has made a lot of progress, being able to feed herself and drink. She can stand up a lot better! Still having frequent episodes but they're not as severe.

During an episode.



1 second after, like nothing happened. Look how tall she stands now! Before the head was just stuck down.



She can eat now without setting herself off!



And the others napping just because, they hardly sit still anymore and the boy is trying to crow already.



So glad she's making progress.
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