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Hi again.
I posted several weeks ago about my unsteady silkie. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/unsteady-silkie.1532848/
Well, she is still kicking along. She is still shaking her head and sounding raspy. There are no other respiratory symptoms.
Which brings me to this post. 2 things...
1. There seems to be something wrong with her digestive tract and I am not sure what else I can do for maintenance. I've been administering monostat, coconut oil, b complex, vitamin e and 1/2 to 1 whole boiled egg a day, plus 20% quail crumble. By the end of the day, her crop is full and in the morning, it is empty. Sometimes there is an overnight poop, but most of the time she will poop during the day. Things are moving through...albeit slowly. If she has been hungry, the poop will be a *huge* solid, normal looking chicken poop with urates.... pretty much the size of her crop. If she hasn't eaten much, she has a huge explosion of mostly wet poop.
2. Separately, she either sits on her feet and rests all day which has contributed to the skin over her keel bone to appear red. Sometimes... usually at the end of the day, I will find her kicking around with her legs stretched out behind her trying to gain footing. I do not know if she is "weak" or if perhaps she has a tumor or something that is impairing her ability to get on her feet. Brain tumor? Spinal injury? She stands the best in the morning and then kind of tires out as the day goes along. She seems very bow legged when she stands.
She does not seem to be suffering. She is not hunched up and miserable. She is talkative and happy to engage. She gets excited to see me...especially when she sees I've brought the coconut oil....and then winds up falling all over the place and I hold her in place until she can steady herself and not go bottoms up. This is part of the struggle I'm having with either putting her down or letting her do her thing.
I am at a loss.
I posted several weeks ago about my unsteady silkie. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/unsteady-silkie.1532848/
Well, she is still kicking along. She is still shaking her head and sounding raspy. There are no other respiratory symptoms.
Which brings me to this post. 2 things...
1. There seems to be something wrong with her digestive tract and I am not sure what else I can do for maintenance. I've been administering monostat, coconut oil, b complex, vitamin e and 1/2 to 1 whole boiled egg a day, plus 20% quail crumble. By the end of the day, her crop is full and in the morning, it is empty. Sometimes there is an overnight poop, but most of the time she will poop during the day. Things are moving through...albeit slowly. If she has been hungry, the poop will be a *huge* solid, normal looking chicken poop with urates.... pretty much the size of her crop. If she hasn't eaten much, she has a huge explosion of mostly wet poop.
2. Separately, she either sits on her feet and rests all day which has contributed to the skin over her keel bone to appear red. Sometimes... usually at the end of the day, I will find her kicking around with her legs stretched out behind her trying to gain footing. I do not know if she is "weak" or if perhaps she has a tumor or something that is impairing her ability to get on her feet. Brain tumor? Spinal injury? She stands the best in the morning and then kind of tires out as the day goes along. She seems very bow legged when she stands.
She does not seem to be suffering. She is not hunched up and miserable. She is talkative and happy to engage. She gets excited to see me...especially when she sees I've brought the coconut oil....and then winds up falling all over the place and I hold her in place until she can steady herself and not go bottoms up. This is part of the struggle I'm having with either putting her down or letting her do her thing.
I am at a loss.
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