paralysis

  1. B

    Paralysis on the left side

    I have a 10 month old silkie and last month she became broody for about two weeks. She doesn’t usually eat or drink when she is broody and I try to force her but she doesn’t eat or drink a lot. When she got up she was walking crooked and looking drunk like. She was walking towards the left and...
  2. D

    2 week chick paralysis

    Hi, when I came home I found one of my chicks on her back and the other chicks walking over her. I picked her up and she seems to not be able to control the lower half of legs at all. No motor function at all. Thinking it may be splay legs I put on a little elastic brace but does not help her...
  3. R

    Chicken weak and falling over

  4. H

    HELP PLS

    I’m at a loss as to what is wrong with my chicken. I thought Mereks but a lot of people are saying it’s not. My chickie (Boots, hatched july 4, a silkie cochin mix) Was let out of the coop Tuesday morning and was just laying by herself, i noticed she could barely walk so i took her inside. for...
  5. The_Chicken_Tender

    Chicken with sudden paralysis and tremors (and brittle / broken feathers)!!

    Symptoms: extremely brittle feathers, paralysis in both legs, tremors I have a hen who has seemed slightly unwell for a while. Her feathers have been extremely brittle for months - at first I thought she was molting, but she's definitely not. I have checked for mites and don't see any. Lately...
  6. W

    Chicken with paralysis, head tremors, but otherwise sharp and alert

    Recently, my 2 years old chicken went lame and had watery diarrhea so I assumed she was eggbound. After a few days of warm baths, calcium and lubing the vent, there was still no egg (nor could I feel one inside or outside the vent). It has now been 3 weeks of feeding this poor girl baby food and...
  7. Dixie0831

    Rapidly Declining Bird -- Paralysis?

    Hello, First of all, thanks for any help. What type of bird, age and weight. She's a buff orpington 12 weeks old, and weighs around 1.5 lbs. Question of FTT due to small size since birth. What is the behavior, exactly. Yesterday afternoon she was behaving normally. I went to bring her into...
  8. C

    Chick with Coccidia and thiamine deficiency

    I’ve been treating a polish chick for Coccidia and I am noticing a thiamine deficiency. The chick isn’t walking normally and is only laying down and when he does it looks like as if only one leg works. No, he doesn’t have any injury. I’ve seen this happen to a couple of my other chicks that...
  9. B

    Paralyzed 16wk old cockerel!!!

    Hello y’all! About 3 days ago my cockerel was as his usual energetic self but it seems that something caused him to lose sense in his feet and wings. On day 1 he would have limp, on day 2 he would fall down several times, day 3 he couldn’t stand up or fly no matter how much he tried. This is a...
  10. Chickadee00

    Paralysed hen please help

    My little sebright (1y) suddenly couldn't walk anymore when I found her in the morning 2 days ago.. I first thought she was eggbound, gave her a bath, calcium etc nothing helped so we went to a vet for chickens who did an xray. Nothing out of order, nothing broken so the vet said it's...
  11. C

    Lame chicken, stinky poops, getting worse. What do I do?

    1) she's a Barred rock , 16 or 17 weeks, seems about as healthy (well, before this that is) and fluffy as the others. 2) found her sitting on her bum with feet straight in front of her. She could stand for about a second, then flops backwards or forward. She was making an effort to walk and flop...
  12. Thechickentrainer1999

    Cure for Chicken cancer?

    Does anyone have any success at treating/curing cancer in chickens? I was told mine has it and she has lost all movement in her legs. Has been in a sling for the last few weeks. She seems to keep getting worse and I'm trying to do everything I can to slow/stop it. Have been giving her alkaline...
  13. X

    Foot Paralysis?

    on our chickens left foot her three front toes are limp. she has full extension of the rest of her leg but she can’t pull it in herself. it doesn’t feel like there’s a break so i’m thinking it could be paralysis. any opinions?
  14. K

    Sudden Leg paralysis and prolapse

    One of my ladies was laying under the coop and not moving this afternoon. She was fine this morning. When we pulled her out her vent was prolapsed. But also her left leg is fully extended and rigid. She can not move it. Her right leg is pliable but she’s not actively moving it either. I was able...
  15. ArcticCuddlefish

    Bird Brain Plasticity! Neat!

    Alright, mixed story I wanna share, and pictures later if nothing goes terribly wrong. A couple nights ago, our chicks that hatched last Saturday had an accident in their brooder. One of the Italians tried to get on top of the brooder plate by squishing between it and the back wall, but he got...
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  16. A

    Paralyzed chicken healed - Don't lose hope!

    Hi guys! Several months ago one of my white leghorn chicks got paralyzed and I'd like to tell her story. Maybe it will inspire somebody not to lose hope :) *** Sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker. I have a country house where we keep chicken. We don't live there, and it's 10min on...
  17. Maranera

    Partial paralysis, among other symptoms, help diagnose!

    Today I noticed a hen that could not use one leg. She also has a purple-black tinge around the edge of her comb, as well as a prominent keel and fluid in her abdomen, plus missing feathers around her butt despite being at the top of the pecking order and lately she has had weak eggs, but all the...
  18. L

    Our 4 yr old Rooster, Rodney isn't walking 😥

    We have a 4 yr old rooster that can't walk at all. It seemed to started a month ago; he was limping so we were soaking his feet in Epsom salt. It seemed to get a bit better until paralysis developed in both legs. He is eating and drinking and very alert. He was poopy cause he can't move out of...
  19. Qualien

    Pigeon partial paralysis

    I have a pigeon approximately 1 year old. She is showing paralysis of the legs, at intermittent periods (days apart). Her wings and neck work fine, her eyes are clear, her feces appear to be slightly watery, but the solids show a normal amount urates vs. Fecal matter, the liquid portion is...
  20. WolfLady

    Wobbly hen and head jerking (seizure-like?)

    Hi! I'm trying to understand what's going on with one of my hen, I'll do summary over 5 days in case it can be helpful: Day 1: She was slightly weaker and wobbly, nothing concerning. Day 2: I decided to give her dewormer and deworm the whole flock, just in case. About 2 hours after deworming...
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