6 Month old GUINEA HEN can't stand up. HELP PLEASE.

[Tootsie]

I posted this in "Emergencies/Diseases..." this morning and no response yet so posting here too.

One of my friends needs some help, they just got these 5 female guineas about a week ago and she emailed me:

"We came home from work today and one of the guineas isn't standing up.
We try to stand him up but he keeps on falling over. We felt his legs and feet they seem fine and if we hold him he can stand but if we let him go he falls over, it seems he can't bear weight on it.

Should we bring her over to see if you can tell anything? I read maybe a tendon moved or a dislocation. I don't know???"

Anyone have any input, I got this the next day so I haven't seen the bird yet, maybe tonight.

 

[EC]

I had a female guinea like that. What we did was bring her in the house, put her in a container, and gave her a bowl of food and water. We kept her in the house for a few days. Your guinea sounds much worse than mine.

 

[Tootsie]

Well they dropped her off here for the night. SHe is holding her legs to the side. I gave her some polyvisol baby vitamins and about 10 cc of pedialyte and put her in a crate with some food and water with electrolytes and will monitor her droppings and then we will see in the am. I only have 2 male guineas here and one left at the camp and they haven't had any real helath issues so I am baffled. She is away from all of my birds in the event it is contagious but I see no discharge or any signs of respiratory distress.

I weighed her and she is 3 lbs 4.5 oz. Is that a good weight? The only other thing I noticed is that her one wattle is noticeably smaller than the other.

Anyone???

 

[damselfish]

We have healthy guineas with uneven wattles, so that part may be OK. Weight sounds light if s/he's an adult.

Guineas do seem to dislocate their legs fairly often based on my limited experience. But that's generally one leg and they get along all right, it seems to heal over time or they get used to it, like a 3-legged dog. Sounds terrible, I know, but it's hard to fix 'em when you can't catch 'em.

I hope she gets better!

 

[Sunny Side Up]

Please allow me to add to this thread since I also didn't get any replies to my post in Emergencies/Diseases. (Titled "Hen died suddenly, risk to flock?")

The day before yesterday my 2 guinea hens seemed fine, went to roost as usual on a barn rafter. In the morning one of them wasn't walking well, really just standing in place. Then she wouldn't even stand, just sat on her keel. I put her in the hospital pen, fearing a disease like Marek's. She was sitting in there, for a few hours. The last time we went to look at her she was dead. But it seemed she had been thrashing around right before she died, there were feathers around the pen (very unlikely it was a critter bothering/scaring her). When I took her out & cleared out the pen, I found a beautiful perfect egg under her overturned food bowl.

I don't mean to hijack this thread & hope your guinea has a better outcome. But I'm mystified as to what could have happened to kill this guinea in one day, and really concerned that it's something the rest of my poultry flock could catch.

 

[Tootsie]

No problem. The owners of the guinea have her. SHe maintained a weight of 3 lbs 4.5 ounces for the 3 days I monitored her. I will ask them how she is doing.

I have no clue why whe was lame?

Yours sounds like it might be something else and this won't let me see you psot whil I am responding, erhh.