Brought her in to treat a wound and realized she can’t stand

[CHlCKEN]

I just brought my one year old blue orp in the garage to treat a pretty bad head wound from pecking when I realized she cannot stand. She’s been broody for a good number of weeks now, and because of that I haven’t seen her out of the nest. For that reason I also don’t know if this has been going on for long or not. I did definitely see her sprawled on her side with wings out two days ago, but I didn’t give any second thought to it since it’s been so unbelievably hot and that’s not a weird position for a bird trying to get cool to be in. My first thought is possible vitamin b deficiency from not eating enough because she couldn’t seem to stand at all. My second thought is one I don’t want to consider yet. She’s not totally paralyzed, in fact, as I’m typing this I’ve observed her both
stand on curled toes and then stand completely normal like nothing happened. Despite her standing normally now, she was definitely struggling and unable to minutes before.

Right now I’m trying to get water and electrolytes in her and I’ll go in and look for a b complex in a minute. I’m also planning to check on my other broody to see if I’ve missed any similar symptoms in her.

Just let me know what I can do from here and what all I could be looking at… I know some possibilities are grim.

 

[coach723]

Was she sitting on eggs to hatch? I would do as you said and get her hydrated and start her on the vitamins. Try to get her eating. See what her droppings are looking like. Hopefully it's all nutritional and you can get her feeling better. I don't let mine sit in the hottest part of the summer here, even though that is when they often go broody. It's just too hot and too hard on them and risky for heat stroke. You should probably keep her out of the heat until she starts looking better, that will maybe help break her of being broody as well. I always break mine when the summer heat hits rather than risk them sitting.

 

[CHlCKEN]

Was she sitting on eggs to hatch? I would do as you said and get her hydrated and start her on the vitamins. Try to get her eating. See what her droppings are looking like. Hopefully it's all nutritional and you can get her feeling better. I don't let mine sit in the hottest part of the summer here, even though that is when they often go broody. It's just too hot and too hard on them and risky for heat stroke. You should probably keep her out of the heat until she starts looking better, that will maybe help break her of being broody as well. I always break mine when the summer heat hits rather than risk them sitting.

Not sitting on eggs to hatch, no. I generally just let them be broody and just take the eggs since it can be a hassle to break. I hadn’t even considered that letting her with the heat this bad could increase risk, so thank you for making me aware. I have her in the garage now with a fan going on her. Her poop is green and looks like she’s been eating plant material rather than their layer feed so that definitely agrees with the possibility of it being nutritional. I didn’t have any vitamins I could give but I should be able to pick some up tomorrow and get her started on them. Hopefully that is all this is.