Chicken with crazy pupils and body spasms.

[maggieroque456]

Hey there!

I have a young cockerel who this morning when I went to open up the coop was twitching quite aggressively. So I picked him up to check him out and I noticed is pupils were going crazy. Big, then small very rapidly… after a few minutes it seemed to stop. Everything I google keeps showing mareks but I got these bird specifically because they were vaccinated against mareks…. Any ideas?

 

[maggieroque456]

Pictures, & or video of the bird in question?

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There's a few possibilities of what can be causing the Seizures:

Heat Stroke

Brain Tumor

Marek's Disease

Vitamin Deficiency

Congenital Brain Disease

Brain Injury

Equine Encephalitis(High Mortality Rate)

No videos yet but if it happens again I’ll try and catch it. I kind of thought it seemed like a seizure but I’ve never seen a chicken have one before so I wasn’t sure. I’ll try adding some more vitamins to his water and see if it helps! Hopefully it’s just that haha he was the one rooster I was planning to keep around.

 

[maggieroque456]

What do you feed?

Sounds good. Update if it happens again, or clears up?

Peavey Marts grower feed. And will do! Thanks!

 

[MysteryChicken]

Pictures, & or video of the bird in question?

To upload a video, it has to be uploaded to YouTube, & linked back here.


There's a few possibilities of what can be causing the Seizures:

Heat Stroke

Brain Tumor

Marek's Disease

Vitamin Deficiency

Congenital Brain Disease

Brain Injury

Equine Encephalitis(High Mortality Rate)

 

[MysteryChicken]

No videos yet but if it happens again I’ll try and catch it. I kind of thought it seemed like a seizure but I’ve never seen a chicken have one before so I wasn’t sure. I’ll try adding some more vitamins to his water and see if it helps! Hopefully it’s just that haha he was the one rooster I was planning to keep around.

What do you feed?

Sounds good. Update if it happens again, or clears up?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Peavey Marts grower feed. And will do! Thanks!

I never heard of that feed.