back legs not moving!!!!!

[eryn13]

My 1-year old chicken can't put pressure on his back legs and he is loosing his appetite!

What do I do?

 

[eryn13]

please help

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5 things I love the most

1.Romeo (the chicken i am talking about)

2.Family

3.Fishing

4.Ringgo (my dog)

and

5.Buttercup (my pony)

 

[Miss Lydia]

Before we can be of any help, you need to tell us more about this chicken, and other things like what do you feed, do they free range, how many chickens do you have, are any others showing symptoms, and what other symptoms is this chicken showing. theres a sticky at the top of the page that you can fill out. Thanks

 

[tammye]

his back legs, can he stand on his front legs?hehehe
sorry could not resist. Try giving him some chicken vitamins from the feed store, seems some chickens can get a vitamin deficiency that can cause sudden leg paralysis, hope this is the problem because it is easy to repair, it takes about two weeks on the vitamins to regain there strenght

 

[eryn13]

yes he does free range, no other chickens are showing symptoms, we have 7 adult chickens including Romeo and 12 chicks, Romeo is picked on by another rooster named Devil, and we found him hiding in my neighbors property.

 

[Miss Lydia]

could your roo have eaten something toxic? Here is a link that may help. read about Botullism http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pwhjQ6Yng877iz_JNiCN1IQ

 

[eryn13]

how many times a day should i give him the vitamins?