Chicks loose use of legs

jessicacjsmommy · Jul 2, 2015

Lost dont even know where to turn.I have searched and searched but I have 3 vaccinated chickens I purchased. 2 hens 1 rooster they have hatched eggs now grown living wonderful. So I now have a total of 4 hens 1 rooster all perfect gave away 1 hen and 2 roosters all perfect. They just hatched 15 and it seems like we are loosing them. We noticed one with leg paralysis one had a bobble head so we killed them. Then another one with leg paralysis and now another one. What do I do? What could it be? I am sad and lost

GitaBooks · Jul 2, 2015

I'm really sorry to hear that.

I hope this link helps. It talks about causes behind paralysis in chickens:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq

Best of luck!

Eggcessive · Jul 2, 2015

There can be Mareks in your environment, and vaccinated chickens wouldn't have the disease. Other things as Gita said, may cause neurological symptoms. If it is happening shortly after hatch, it could be an infection in the eggs, a humidity or temperature problem during incubation, or it could be from a vitamin deficiency in the parent stock. Make sure that your feed is fresh dated so that vitamins aren't depleted, and it may help to put some poultry vitamins in your chick's water. I also will put vitamins into my grown chickens water or food 2 days a week.

jessicacjsmommy · Jul 4, 2015

Thank you so much for the advice! My other 6 babies are looking great so far watching them. Both bags are fresh but they are free range so they eat whatever else is out there. I did get the babies some liquid vitamins. Guess just time.

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