- Oct 1, 2015
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So I got two new baby chickens recently (Rhode Island Reds) and they are doing very good. They have grown in most of their feathers and are lively and don't show any typical signs of disease or bugs. They're lively and curious and just all-around happy.
One of them, though, sometimes throws some kind of fit? I've only seen it happen twice, a couple weeks apart.
She will suddenly just fall over and flop for a moment, then get up and try to walk or run but end up just spinning in circles, trying really hard to balance with her wings, before falling over again. This repeats for about half a minute, then she will get up and start going back to whatever she was doing like nothing happened.
The first time was after I put her down after holding her. I thought maybe I had accidentally moved too fast and made her dizzy. The second time was just today, when I was just watching them do their thing when it suddenly happened again, absolutely no sudden movements or any sort of trigger.
She appears to be distressed or confused during these, cheeping loudly and struggling desperately to regain balance, but not really in any pain.
I cannot get videos of it since these occurrences are very sparse and unpredictable and I don't have a camera.
Could these possibly be seizures?
Her name is Dotty, by the way.
One of them, though, sometimes throws some kind of fit? I've only seen it happen twice, a couple weeks apart.
She will suddenly just fall over and flop for a moment, then get up and try to walk or run but end up just spinning in circles, trying really hard to balance with her wings, before falling over again. This repeats for about half a minute, then she will get up and start going back to whatever she was doing like nothing happened.
The first time was after I put her down after holding her. I thought maybe I had accidentally moved too fast and made her dizzy. The second time was just today, when I was just watching them do their thing when it suddenly happened again, absolutely no sudden movements or any sort of trigger.
She appears to be distressed or confused during these, cheeping loudly and struggling desperately to regain balance, but not really in any pain.
I cannot get videos of it since these occurrences are very sparse and unpredictable and I don't have a camera.
Could these possibly be seizures?
Her name is Dotty, by the way.