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[tls_ranch]

I think you can pretty much rule out Mareks since it is too young to show symptoms.  

  It could be a vitamin deficiency,  The symptoms sound like a vitamin E deficiency but it could have other vitamin deficiencies   as well.  Do you have an "Save a Chick" on hand?    I would separated this chick to be on the safe side.  Some respiratory diseases are passed vertically so you want to  rule out a disease before exposing your other chicks.  

It could be a form of pneumonia. Sometimes chicks can aspirate liquid while hatching or later learning how to drink at first. Aspergillosis is also common in brooders ( so called brooder pneumonia ), but the chick is so young I would not think it would have time to develop symptoms from fungus.

Trisha

 

[juststruttin]

Here is a great article with diagrams about the various Vitamin deficiencies and symptoms.
http://www.apa-abayouthpoultryclub.org/Edu_Material/VITAMINS.pdf

It says that vitamin E usually shows up in the 3rd week but other articles I have read say symptoms can start as early as 7 days. 5 days is certainly on the young side.

I think you did the right thing by giving her vitamins and separating her. I look forward to hearing how she is doing in the morning.

 

[minmin1258]

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I think you can pretty much rule out Mareks since it is too young to show symptoms.  

  It could be a vitamin deficiency,  The symptoms sound like a vitamin E deficiency but it could have other vitamin deficiencies   as well.  Do you have an "Save a Chick" on hand?    I would separated this chick to be on the safe side.  Some respiratory diseases are passed vertically so you want to  rule out a disease before exposing your other chicks.  

It could also be gasping because it is choking on something!! I had a chick that got a ladybug stuck in its throat do that.

 

[lawatt]

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It could also be gasping because it is choking on something!! I had a chick that got a ladybug stuck in its throat do that.

thanks -- like i said, not really gasping, more just opening and closing its beak, but no actual gasping for air. and they've been living in their brooder indoors, in my guest bathroom, on paper towels (not pine shavings yet), with nothing else around but chick starter and water -- so i don't think there's much it could have inhaled. and really, not trying to get *air* -- it seems more like a neurological thing, along with not being able to keep its balance/walk without falling on its right side.

it's sleeping now, perhaps the vitamins will do some good during the night while it rests... at least no one else is standing on it!

 

[Audio51]

Quote: That would never have occured to me.....

I keep telling myself i am going to fet colored legbands because the 4 Marans look so much alike. I suspect it may be the one that survived the skunk attack last year when all of it's hatchmates were killed. Several months later something happened to her and she could not stand. I had to keep her in a dog crate and hand feed/eater her for several weeks until she recovered enough to rejoin the flock. She has always walked a little funny since then. I wonder of there was trauma to the part of her reproductive tract that paints the eggs.

 

[Audio51]

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I think all the native birds are good at getting in where they don't belong. I often find them in the run when I have let the girls out to forage. They get in thru the door, but when I come thru it they try to find a way out thru the poultry netting on the opposite end. The run is covered to keep it dry so there is no way out there. I just do what I came in for (collectng eggs) and they eventually find their way out.

I just set up the small Costco "broody coop" inside the run yesterday morning. It is completely enclosed on all sides and the top. It is open on the bottom but sits on the ground so the floor is dirt or grass or whatever it is sittng on. I moved my broody hen in and left to let her get settled in. Went back a few hours later to check the nestboxes for eggs and heard something bouncing around inside the broody coop. There was a small crested titmouse in there. While I stood there scratching my head trying to figure out how it got in there, it finally got out thru a small gap under the bottom rail that can't be more that about 1" high by about 12" long. I was amazed it could even get in thru there, much less back out when it was in a panic.

 

[lualshannon]

I have an 8 mos. old Jubilee Orpington cockerel which I a am looking for a home. His parents are from GFF, and he is beautiful. He has a brother who is very handsome as well. He is a fox attack survivor which left him with a slight limp. He is very friendly, sweet bird who would be much happier in a home where he can be the only rooster.


Also, I have 2 Ceam Legbar cockerels who are 9 wks. old. They have pale colors, with nicely shaped crests.


If interested, and would like more info. please PM.


Lual

Hi Lual!

They sound like very nice birds!

I hope someone wants them.

Hi Ron, thank you! They are lovely boys; both Jubilee Orps. are already promised to very nice homes.

Lual

 

[sewandgrow]

I wonder if these are homemade. Too bad he didn't include a picture. $10 for a nestbox is a great price...but a little too far away for me.


And on a side note....I was a bit amused when I ran the spell check before sending this reply. When it got to Juststruttin's name, the first correction option was "castrating". Not sure how it came up with that one!

I ordered a couple of the roll out nest box bottoms when I found them in a chicken catalog on sale. I can't remember if it was Premier or Fleming. I had my son attach them to the one of the sides of a vinyl mesh milk crate after cutting the side off. I will try to remember to report back on how they work.

 

[sewandgrow]

Has anyone tried these? http://www.flemingoutdoors.com/roll-out-tray-with-flap-for-chickbox.html
I think they can be used to modify regular wood nest boxes into rollout nests.

Trisha

Hey, that's them. It was Fleming

 

[luvinbluechickens]

Woo Hoo!!!  I won the Mottled Ameraucana eggs!  e

Congratulations! Please let us know how the eggs arrive and how your hatch goes! Hope you get lots of mottles, they are amazing looking!