Vitamin B deficiency/Curled toe paralyasis...any hope for recovery? Help please

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Jack Frost said:
Hello Cluckey,
With this chicken she never got better. We ended up culling her. A month or so later my other welsummer started curling her toes and I immediately put a splint on her foot to straighten her toed out, brought her inside and fed her yogurt, eggs and chic starter. She never got any worse and she never lost control of her leg. I put her back in the coop. It's been 2 years now and she is managing just fine. She still has funny curled toes and walks a bit funny but is able to
How did this end up?  My rooster has started to hobble around on his knuckles like this.

Thanks
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She is able to roost and seems to be ok. She is smaller and skinny but doesn't seem to be suffering. I don't have any idea what is actually wrong with her and what if any treatment helped her. I do think putting her on chic starter right away helped. None of my other chickens have this problem So i doubt it's mareks. And since it was only my two welsummers that had this problem I think it was more of a genetic issue. Good luck. Keep me posted. Hope your roo can work through it.
 
Thanks Cluckey,

I'm really sorry to read that; both for your loss and the my rooster's prognosis
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Cheers,
 
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I'm curious if anyone has had a grown chicken actually recover from this. My hen Sophie is completely imobile. She's getting the b2 she needs but I'm not seeing any improvement. She's been like thhis now for two weeks.
 
omanadia said:
I'm curious if anyone has had a grown chicken actually recover from this. My hen Sophie is completely imobile. She's getting the b2 she needs but I'm not seeing any improvement. She's been like thhis now for two weeks.
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Any pics? My little chick has been like this for about a month now, she’s began walking a bit, only on her hocks but after a month that’s a lot of improvement. She has a lot of human multivitamin tablets in her water, and egg everyday. I just didn’t give up on her.
 

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Update! My little one is running around! She will never recover I don’t think, but she’s absolutely adores attention, and can run/flap 5m in about 10 seconds to get to me if she wants. She gets around, but i know she’ll never be a normal chicken. She’s on her own in a wired off part of the field at the moment, until i can get her a tiny friend. All the big chickens can see her, and when i put the cockerels away at night, i let her out to play and she is extremely bossy with the hens if they come near her meal worms, so that’s shows she’s feeling well. She’ll get very angry if she can see me feeding treats to the big chickens without her, and will pace up the side of her area until i let her out. I think she feels quite well, as she certainly acts very spoit!
 
Chickem707 said:
Update! My little one is running around! She will never recover I don’t think, but she’s absolutely adores attention, and can run/flap 5m in about 10 seconds to get to me if she wants. She gets around, but i know she’ll never be a normal chicken. She’s on her own in a wired off part of the field at the moment, until i can get her a tiny friend. All the big chickens can see her, and when i put the cockerels away at night, i let her out to play and she is extremely bossy with the hens if they come near her meal worms, so that’s shows she’s feeling well. She’ll get very angry if she can see me feeding treats to the big chickens without her, and will pace up the side of her area until i let her out. I think she feels quite well, as she certainly acts very spoit!
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Could you post a video of her walking around? I’m curious to see how she gets around.
My hen that I believe has been suffering from a Riboflavin deficiency walks around like this

She’s been back with the flock for 3 weeks now, she spends most of the day on her roost with her food and water in a basket beside her.

Here’s a video of her having a dust bath
 
Brahmachicken240 said:
Could you post a video of her walking around? I’m curious to see how she gets around.
My hen that I believe has been suffering from a Riboflavin deficiency walks around like this

She’s been back with the flock for 3 weeks now, she spends most of the day on her roost with her food and water in a basket beside her.

Here’s a video of her having a dust bath
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I’ll try and get a video tomorrow, but mine has never walked like that. Is she getting better? I think mine must have been some sort of deficiency.
 
Chickem707 said:
I’ll try and get a video tomorrow, but mine has never walked like that. Is she getting better? I think mine must have been some sort of deficiency.
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She was the bottom hen in the pecking order and was very light when she got like this,she’s been gaining weight and growing slowly ever since I’ve been giving her the extra attention, still a lot lighter than the others though.
When she first got like this her toes were curled and she couldn’t move them. She can move them now and she doesn’t hold them curled anymore. She still walks the same but her walking distance has improved, she’s trying to get around a bit more when I Have her out off her roost.
 

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