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In the Brooder
Any help would be much appreciated. We live outside of New Orleans and recently had to evacuate due to hurricane Ida. Unfortunately we could not take our flock with us, but had a good friend who came every morning and every afternoon To tend to our chickens. One of our chickens (a phoenix) (one and a half years old) was acting extremely strange a couple of days after the storm. She was acting injured so he took her out of the coop she appeared to have several bloody scabs on her face, ears, waddle but absolutely no missing feathers. My first thought was some of the other chickens might’ve pecked at her, after examining her and noticing they did not take any of her feathers away especially around the tail I don’t think that is what happened. We immediately brought her inside and I put her in a milk crate that only has three sides, similar to what we use as laying boxes in the coop. She sits in there day and night and does not even try to move out of the crate she will stand but has a hard time balancing. All of her scabs have seem to heal, but she does this weird thing where it looks like she is pulled her neck all the way in and throws her head back, the only way I can describe it is it appears that she may have brain damage. She seems to be improving somewhat, we had to force water originally but now she does drink water, and she eats as long as we put it directly in front of. She definitely gets very freaked out if our lab walks past her which has never happened in the past she usually free ranged in our lab walked around the yard with no problems. But she continues to throw her head back almost like she has Tourette’s. And she still cannot balance at all. Could this be some type of disease, or could it just be from an injury. I really don’t think that she was injured during the storm itself because my friend would’ve noticed if she wasn’t acting normal. Keep in mind she did weather 4 almost 5 hurricane. But all of the behaviors did not start until about five days after the storm. Any help on what I can possibly start doing to help her or direction to look or research what it could possibly be causing this please let me know. It is absolutely awful to watch although I don’t think that she is suffering. And she doesn’t seem to be in any pain. Thank you in advance I know this was a long post I appreciate any help
