Do my chicken have laryngitis or ILT?

[Gotalotofpetstoo]

This is Mae. She's about 9 yrs old and we believe she's gone suddenly blind so we've had her in our house for at least 2 months now. We originally brought her up here because we noticed she wasn't putting herself up on the perch one night and then the next night she had her nose in a corner. She couldn't stand up and if she tried she just fell down face first. She wouldn't eat or move around the room at all. We've been tube feeding her and giving her lots of vitamins. She finally started getting her wits about her and getting up and moving around. And she is eating some, but I've never felt her crop full in between her a.m. And p.m. tube feedings. Within the last week she has started trying to talk, which she hadn't done much of at all in the prior weeks, however, it sounds like she has laryngitis. I did Google laryngitis in chickens and came up with one possible reason being a disease called ILT. I posted a video and I think you can hear what I hear, but she has none of the other symptoms of ILT. Could it just be laryngitis or possibly from being tube fed so long? I know she's old, and her sister, Ethel, whom we kept with us for 7 months, died blind as well and also had Marek's. Some of the ones in the flock that died, tested positive via lab necropsy for Marek's and others didn't, kind of strange. None the less, she is the only one in the flock that sounds like laryngitis and blindness. At first I thought optical Marek's but her eyes aren't grayed over. As you can see in the videos, She moves around fine and almost had me convinced she wasn't blind. I did put some food in front of her after we came in the house and she was very clearly pecking all around it but not picking up the food. But she does find her bowl because I've kept it in the same place always so I'm pretty sure she's blind.

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[Wyorp Rock]

This is Mae. She's about 9 yrs old and we believe she's gone suddenly blind so we've had her in our house for at least 2 months now. We originally brought her up here because we noticed she wasn't putting herself up on the perch one night and then the next night she had her nose in a corner. She couldn't stand up and if she tried she just fell down face first. She wouldn't eat or move around the room at all. We've been tube feeding her and giving her lots of vitamins. She finally started getting her wits about her and getting up and moving around. And she is eating some, but I've never felt her crop full in between her a.m. And p.m. tube feedings. Within the last week she has started trying to talk, which she hadn't done much of at all in the prior weeks, however, it sounds like she has laryngitis. I did Google laryngitis in chickens and came up with one possible reason being a disease called ILT. I posted a video and I think you can hear what I hear, but she has none of the other symptoms of ILT. Could it just be laryngitis or possibly from being tube fed so long? I know she's old, and her sister, Ethel, whom we kept with us for 7 months, died blind as well and also had Marek's. Some of the ones in the flock that died, tested positive via lab necropsy for Marek's and others didn't, kind of strange. None the less, she is the only one in the flock that sounds like laryngitis and blindness. At first I thought optical Marek's but her eyes aren't grayed over. As you can see in the videos, She moves around fine and almost had me convinced she wasn't blind. I did put some food in front of her after we came in the house and she was very clearly pecking all around it but not picking up the food. But she does find her bowl because I've kept it in the same place always so I'm pretty sure she's blind.

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ILT (Infectious Laryngotracheitis) is a highly contagious respiratory disease, symptoms would involve coughing, mucous, lethargy, difficulty breathing - you don't mention any of those symptoms.

You've had her inside for 2months. Have you been around other birds that have been sick with respiratory illness?

I'd see if she can eat on her own, provide wet feed in a deep brightly colored bowl. If you are tubing her, perhaps her throat is a bit sore, but tubing shouldn't really cause that. Be sure that you are giving her enough to sustain her, if you aren't feeling crop fill in the am and pm feeding, she's likely not getting enough.

Here's some reading about poultry diseases:
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PS044

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[Gotalotofpetstoo]

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ILT (Infectious Laryngotracheitis) is a highly contagious respiratory disease, symptoms would involve coughing, mucous, lethargy, difficulty breathing - you don't mention any of those symptoms.

You've had her inside for 2months. Have you been around other birds that have been sick with respiratory illness?

I'd see if she can eat on her own, provide wet feed in a deep brightly colored bowl. If you are tubing her, perhaps her throat is a bit sore, but tubing shouldn't really cause that. Be sure that you are giving her enough to sustain her, if you aren't feeling crop fill in the am and pm feeding, she's likely not getting enough.

Here's some reading about poultry diseases:
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PS044

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Haven't been around any other chickens with any respiratory issues. And she is getting between 120-150ml AM and the same PM. And what she eats of her crumble and worms.