Mitchellsss1
Hatching
- Jun 9, 2023
- 5
- 1
- 8
We have a hen that had chicks recently we started noticing that she would stay in the shed more and not walk around in the yard as much. She started limping and we initially thought she had sprained or broken a bone.
Yet the next day she developed blisters around her toes. They were filled with a lime green liquid. I looked into blisters online and it was advised not to pop them so we didn't. Instead we treated them with cephalexin, an antibiotic after a week on a low dose only one of three blisters remained the rest deflated and then disappeared and she seemed to be putting for weight on her leg, so we stopped the antibiotic. Yet when we did the blister that remained filled with liquid again so we gave her a slightly higher dose for 3 more days it then disappeared but she was still limping.
I inspected her leg again and it seems that now it paralyzed. It is stiff but still warm like her body yet she can't seem to move it. I looked into it and Mark's disease came up as a possibility which is frightening because she could have exposed the rest of our chickens to it if it is that. After that incident she developed diarrhea it had a yellowish hue my mom gave her amprolium for three days thinking it was coccidiosis. Which now it seems that maybe it did help as her poop is no longer yellow, she still had some diarrhea but it isn't as watery anymore and she had done two more solid poops.
The paralysis has not progressed to anywhere aside from her already affected left leg. It's been a month already I check her skin and it is not bumpy her eyes are normal. She still gets up on the couch to sleep on her own. I'm going to give her vitamins now to see if that maybe changes the paralysis any. She is a year and a half old. Her toes are not curled they are streached out. I'm not too familiar with Marek's disease so I am not sure if it is obvious that this is what is afflicting her. I need help maybe if someone has expierence diagnosing it. We don't have any avian vets near us and get get a proper test done I don't want to misdiagnose something that can be treated. So does this sound like mareks to anyone?? Or a vitamin deficiency??
Yet the next day she developed blisters around her toes. They were filled with a lime green liquid. I looked into blisters online and it was advised not to pop them so we didn't. Instead we treated them with cephalexin, an antibiotic after a week on a low dose only one of three blisters remained the rest deflated and then disappeared and she seemed to be putting for weight on her leg, so we stopped the antibiotic. Yet when we did the blister that remained filled with liquid again so we gave her a slightly higher dose for 3 more days it then disappeared but she was still limping.
I inspected her leg again and it seems that now it paralyzed. It is stiff but still warm like her body yet she can't seem to move it. I looked into it and Mark's disease came up as a possibility which is frightening because she could have exposed the rest of our chickens to it if it is that. After that incident she developed diarrhea it had a yellowish hue my mom gave her amprolium for three days thinking it was coccidiosis. Which now it seems that maybe it did help as her poop is no longer yellow, she still had some diarrhea but it isn't as watery anymore and she had done two more solid poops.
The paralysis has not progressed to anywhere aside from her already affected left leg. It's been a month already I check her skin and it is not bumpy her eyes are normal. She still gets up on the couch to sleep on her own. I'm going to give her vitamins now to see if that maybe changes the paralysis any. She is a year and a half old. Her toes are not curled they are streached out. I'm not too familiar with Marek's disease so I am not sure if it is obvious that this is what is afflicting her. I need help maybe if someone has expierence diagnosing it. We don't have any avian vets near us and get get a proper test done I don't want to misdiagnose something that can be treated. So does this sound like mareks to anyone?? Or a vitamin deficiency??
