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    Help me with second dose of wormer for sick chicken

    Thank you!!
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    Help me with second dose of wormer for sick chicken

    My year old Americana was moving slowly and had a poopy butt, so I figured it was worms. The only thing I could find locally was Wazine, so I gave her some, planning to follow up with Valbazen 10 days later. She started doing a little better (and I found a 3 inch roundworm in her stool), but...
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    Euthanize? Recurring leg tremors, loss of balance

    An update: Sadly, we euthanized our chicken Mid Jan. She had a miraculous recovery after the November incident. (A month before she had had a similar episode that took about 3 weeks to recover from.) This second episode started the same way. One day I noticed her walk slightly crooked. By...
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    Euthanize? Recurring leg tremors, loss of balance

    I did a lot of searches on Marek's too. Seems its manifestation can be quite varied. I do know she was not vaccinated for it. There were 6 unvaccinated hens that joined 9 with unknown vax record. (That won't happen again! :( ) Of the 6 unvaccinated, other than the hen I described, I have...
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    Euthanize? Recurring leg tremors, loss of balance

    She stayed upright all night and this morning she stood for several minutes on her own with no balance problems. I also haven't seen leg tremors for 24 hours. It's looking more promising!
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    Euthanize? Recurring leg tremors, loss of balance

    Thank you for your posts. I really appreciate it! It's a hard decision, and I'm on my own with this one. I went to bed last night planning on going to the vet's to euthanize her. Call me crazy, but that evening I talked to her and told her what i was thinking and asked her to give me a sign...
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    Euthanize? Recurring leg tremors, loss of balance

    Thanks anyway! Any one else with ideas?
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    Euthanize? Recurring leg tremors, loss of balance

    No, I don't think she is having a seizure. If she was, I'd expect that her behavior would fluctuate..at this point, every time I visit with her, she is unable to hold herself upright. Her legs aren't paralyzed, but she isn't very coordinated with them. I'll hold her upright and look how she...
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    Euthanize? Recurring leg tremors, loss of balance

    1) What type of bird , age and weight 7 Mo Barred Rock, pretty thin 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Started with crooked walking, progresses to loss of balance, lying on side in crate, leg tremors. She is alert, chirps when I come in the room. As she is lying on her side, she moves her...
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    Weak hen with watery poop

    My hen is doing the same thing! She went through a cycle of similar behavior last month, near the beginning of her molt. I separated her, put on a heat lamp, and offered her food and water often, which she didn't want. She kept falling asleep. I took her to a vet, who examined her and found...
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    Back in the garage again--loss of balance, tucked in neck, tremor in legs

    7 month old barred rock. Late Sept to Mid october she was in isolation. It started with running crooked (in a straight line, but her feet were about 30 degrees off to the right). She progressed to whether she couldn't stand at all and lay on her side for a week while I spoon fed her eggs and...
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    Sleepy, droopy chicken

    Thanks, everyone for your replies. The original sleepy chicken is still a little off (ruffled feathers at times and a little sleepy) but overall she seems better. Her weight is the same, and she is eating and drinking. The other hen who was purring at night (maybe this is a normal sound...
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    Sleepy, droopy chicken

    So I just checked on them again, and now the other one sounds like she is purring, so I'm thinking maybe a respiratory thing?
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    Sleepy, droopy chicken

    Thanks for the reply. I just read up on impacted crops and went out to massage hers and now it's not hard! Her breath isn't sour smelling either. I'm a fairly new at keeping chickens, and wow, the experience is teaching me a lot! So it's not her crop...
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    Sleepy, droopy chicken

    Your thoughts, please?? My chicken hasn't been doing so well the past 4 days, and now I'm wondering if her sister is starting to behave the same way. I isolated them from the rest of the crew. Here are the stats: 1.5 year old sussex--Ive had her for a year. I added 13 new chickens a...
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