Emergency!!!

[ChickQueen77]

This morning when I went out to the coop my Rhode Island Red bantam pullet was laying on the ground she was moving her head then I picked her up and she can't move her legs. I can barely move her legs. I need help fast before I have to put her down.

 

[CherishedFowlGuardian]

@Eggcessive

 

[CherishedFowlGuardian]

I would bring her inside somewhere warm dark and quiet. Make sure she has a little bit of of food and electrolyte water.

 

[CherishedFowlGuardian]

It could be spraddle leg or Marek's disease.
Maybe you can look at these two to see if there's anything you can do or what you think is more likely.



Keep us posted.

 

[ChickQueen77]

It is not spraddle leg and I am thinking that the breeder we got her from vaccinated against marek's disease but not sure if they did.

 

[Eggcessive]

How old is she? Are there other chickens who are with her? Was she recently added? I would suspect an injury, but an illness such as dehydration, coccidiosis, or neurological problem might be what is going on. Good advice to separate her in a quiet spot for observation. Keep her warm, about 70 degrees. Offer sugar water or electrolytes up to her beak to sip. Could she have been kept from food and water? Let us know how her poops are.

 

[ChickQueen77]

she was hatched in I think end of march. there are 8 chickens with her all the same age there are 6 pullets and 2 cockerels. there are 2 more RIR pullets and 1 RIR cockerel there is also 2 Partridge Wyandotte pullets and 1 Partridge Wyandotte cockerel and 2 white leghorn pullets and the leghorns are a bit younger. they got mixed the day we got them which was early April and they haven't been picking on any of them that I know of.

 

[LaFleche]

The cockerels might have started to feel hormonal which can cause issues as the pullets take much longer to mature.

 

[ChickQueen77]

The cockerels might have started to feel hormonal which can cause issues as the pullets take much longer to mature.

but that doesn't make sense as to why she can't move her legs and I have never seen the roosters be anything but gentleman to the pullets

 

[LaFleche]

but that doesn't make sense as to why she can't move her legs

It does in case one or both of them threw themselves on top of her in an attempt to gang rape mate her.

I even once had one young cockerel breaking a pullets neck while trying to mate her as he grabbed her by the back of her head and pulled back forcefully while pinning her down with his whole body weight.