My white Silkie Bantam, 7mos. old, has been walking poorly for about 1 month. She chose to stay by herself, laying around and not roosting, which was unusual behavior. I picked her up to check her over about 10 days ago and she was really warm to the touch and had crust on her beak and around her ears. None of her 5 coop mates are sick. Her poop looks normal. I took her to the vet on 11/15, who said both ears were absessed and she had a respiratory infection, so not walking well I thought made sense. He gave her Amikacin inj. and prescribed Baytril 2 times per day. She is improving slightly. Many of her gorgeous feathers on her face and head have fallen off. She is eating and drinking but still isn't walking well. I closely looked over her feet a couple of days ago and realized her feet seemed crusty too. Today I washed her feet and the crust just started falling off like skin sloughing off. I thought great, she'll start healing up. But when I put her outside in the grass I saw her toes were now bleeding...OH MY GOSH! Poor thing. What the heck is happening? I'll be calling the vet tomorrow but what could this be?
