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  1. Skotadi

    Sick chicken with weak leg

    Every thing was resolved today as the lab results came back, our barred rock had Zinc poisoning and the young Orpington had Chlamydia which may still be infecting our flock. Good to know that it is not Mareks and these are all treatable.
  2. Skotadi

    Sick chicken with weak leg

    I think I found the cause of death for our young orpington, he went through our fence yestrerday and got in to a field full of buttercups, he must have grazed on them and in turn caused his death, one of our paddock is littered full of buttercups, will need to get rid of them, didn't realise...
  3. Skotadi

    Sick chicken with weak leg

    The 8 week old (actually I think he is 10 week old, we raised him from dayold so I didn't realize how fast he has grown) just died, he had diarrhea (alot of clear liquid with chunks) and was puking clear liquid, its happened so quickly we were shocked. From the time we found him till his death...
  4. Skotadi

    Sick chicken with weak leg

    We left the barred rock with the vet yesterday for further inspections,if nothing can be found than they will have to do a necropsis. We are suspecting zinc poisoning as well as the galvanized flooring was rusting and peeling off, just have to wait for the results. We just realized for how sick...
  5. Skotadi

    Sick chicken with weak leg

    HELP, one of our 8 week old chicks suddently fell ill today without any warnings, he was fine and lively yesterday when he returned to the coop but this morning we noticed that he didn't come out with the others and found him lying down in the coop with his feet pointing in the air. He is...
  6. Skotadi

    Sick chicken with weak leg

    We, did some research of our own and found that Marek is present in New Zealand (vets are just hopeless), the problem is that we do not have access to any vaccines that we can obtain and the vets do not have poutry vaccination service either. But I still don't think that it is Marek as she shows...
  7. Skotadi

    Sick chicken with weak leg

    We feed the chickens a laying feed with grit, but we just realized that it have no animal protein in it, not sure it effects them, we have now swapped to a different brand of laying pellet, just wants to see if it is better for the chickens, we also feed them some bread we get from our friend...
  8. Skotadi

    Sick chicken with weak leg

    She is still not getting better, new symtoms that I noticed are that her paralyzed leg is trembling when she is lying down, the other is that we found a scabbed over cut from under her foot, but the wound looks old and doesn't look like that it was infected, could this have caused the problem...
  9. Skotadi

    Sick chicken with weak leg

    Thank you, yes the vitamin does include Vitamin B groups, Her condition is already over a week, we are fearing it might last out her life time as she doesn't seems to be getting better.
  10. Skotadi

    Sick chicken with weak leg

    Hi all, we have a young 15 week old Barred Plymouth Rock hen that is having trouble walking. It first started with her left leg but then shifted to her right, her left leg is now completely functional but her right leg is loosing alot of muscle mass and she seems to drag the foot every where or...
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