cockerel alert but cant walk help!

[nettifer]

hi thanks for that, but this is a strange one! its day 13 now, this morning when i was letting them out i heard a lot of thrashing about from his coop, when i opened him up he was having a fit

it lasted a few mins his head going back etc, and he was tired after, this is the 1st one hes had, but after he was eating and drinking again and shuffling himself about a little

im still giving vits etc his pupils are reacting to light, his feathers are not ruffled in fact they look good except his bum feathers ive clipped them a little, hes bright eyed , ive looked at so many diff things

but nothing fits perfect,i keep thinking was it something wrong with the eggs? as ive lost 10 out of 14 birds i hatched all over 6mths but under 12mths, is it possible that there is some inhereted disease , i was given the eggs off a friend

 

[Nambroth]

It is possible for some chickens to pass disease onto their offspring through the egg, yes.

Here is a list of some diseases. Maybe you can read it over and see if anything seems to fit with what you have experienced:
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/2477/vertically-transmitted-health-issues-in-poultry

 

[nettifer]

thank you! but nothing on the list jumps out at me

here is a brief history of my last 2yrs of having chickens this time! i started with 12 pol warrens and a bantem cock, they deminished cock and 4 hens got pinched,5 hens got eyp or died, then i got a rir cock with remaining 3 hens, so i bought 12 more pol, 3 black rock, 3 speckldie, 3 bluebell,3 magpie, from a chicken breeding farm, 24hrs later he replaced 1 bluebell as it couldnt walk , i put it down to stress as new home etc, then a couple of months later i had to treat all for respitory infection bubbly eyes sneezing etc, but i had 12wk old chicks in a pen outside same field as them they all got treated, but it took 3 lots of abs to clear it 1 of the young males developed an eye ulcer and lost his eye, that took months of cleaning the crud out until it finally stopped, he was doing well but then he got thinner and thinner, then got wry neck 6 days later died

then another who was a big healthy boy waisted away in days and died, i had another big boy, big heavy bird that 1 day kept lying down on his side and gasping, his crop was quite hard and i managed to soften it with oil, but he died,then a hen started standing alone puffed up not laying yet, brought her in , tried to cure but she died in 3 days, is it possible that the resp disease did a lot of damage? because they were young! or something in the eggs! all the older ones are ok its just the ones less than 9mth that die

i feed them well, they get layers in morning and fermented mixed corn & crushed oats for tea, they free range, have acv or origo-stim in water i sprinkle dried garlic flakes on layers , wish i knew!

 

[seminolewind]

It does really sound like Marek's. And what goes with that is opportunistic infections and illnesses. No one can tell you for sure what it is except a necropsy at a lab. Sounds like he had a seizure .

I can't understand your writing prior to the blue bell not walking. Then eye and respiratory infections. Then one wasting away and got wry neck, then 2 more wasting. And a roo that can't walk. And all under 9 months. That all sounds like Marek's. All that has happened in my flock. Whether the roo had curled feet or not doesn't matter. For the first few years I didn't know why I lost a chicken every few months or so from wasting . It was a while before I figured out it was Marek's. That was when I had 10 chicks get paralysis and wasting, one every week.

Since Marek's can have so many symptoms or none at all, but frequently wasting, you posting your flock history was a good thing to help figure out what's going on.

You may want to read Nambroth's Great big Giant Marek's FAQ. THe link is at the bottom of my posts as well as Nambroth's. And any more chicks or chickens you get must be vaccinated and quarantined for at least 3 weeks.

 

[Nambroth]

Your list of symptoms from the last two years suggests that maybe you have more than one disease being carried by your flock... which might be why nothing 'fits perfectly'. In your position, I'd probably have some tests done, especially if you lose another bird. Knowing which disease(s) you are dealing with will make all the difference in how to approach them and manage them in the future...

There is definitely something going on though, and it's not just something that got passed on through the latest eggs you hatched!

 

[nettifer]

my poor boy coal died yesterday at day 19

he had started pushing with his legs and gaining weight, dont know why

did he have another siezure? but when i checked him over his skin was very transparent so much that you could see his liver through it, i decided to cut him open just to see and his liver was huge! he also had a few bullseye type spots on them white/yellow not raised spots ,it was very dark in colour his intestine was small but he wasnt eating as much as when he was running around .