Everything going wrong at once, please help!!!

[PrincessKiara]

The last few days have been hell, I'm trying as hard as I can and still everything and its mother keeps going wrong...please, if anyone can help, I'm begging.

First, my Aztec chick Minnie somehow spit up water then aspirated it and drowned.

Then, on Halloween, Coffee, my most beautiful Silkie chick ever, hatched. She hasn't wanted to eat since hatch, so I've been syringe feeding and watering her, just touching the tip to her beak and she's been doing the rest since and she's been fine until last night when I had to wash off massive pasty butt. Today she's pretty weak, and won't accept the syringe unless I pry her beak open and actually put the food in it... otherwise she won't eat it.

Then, three of my coturnix quail hatched and keep flipping over onto their backs and being unable to get back up. It's been about three days and they still can't get up, just flop around like fish. If I right them and put them in their food bowl they'll try to eat for a couple seconds until they flip over again.

Then yesterday, my boyfriend found my favorite pullet Maple unable to get up. She was running a 42.1° fever. The vet said to give her enrofloxacin and she visibly perked up within a couple of hours, regaining the ability to open her eyes, raise her head and eat, but still can't stand up without flopping sideways or forward. I'm super torn up over it...I need to know what this is and if I can fix it. The vet is coming to look at her in person but...

And to top it all off, this morning I found my other mini chick Mouse mysteriously dead when yesterday she was vibrant and full of life.

Please help if you can! I've attached a link to a public post with all the videos and photos I took of Maple.

The rest of my coturnix and button quail and chickens are all eating, peeping and doing their normal birdy business with no sign of anything being wrong whatsoever.

Public FB post w/pictures and videos of what's happening with Maple

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Your videos are not public. Can you post them to youtube and provide a link.

Hopefully your vet can get to the bottom of this when they make their visit today.

Take a look and see if any of your feed has gotten moldy.
Some of the symptoms you describe sound neurological - you could try giving vitamin E and B-complex to see if there's any improvement.

Sorry that your having so much trouble.

 

[PrincessKiara]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=386743635779976&id=100033330276706

Here's the link again, it's definitely public I checked. I will upload to YT if it doesn't work.

Should I give Vitamin E and B complex to Maple, or the chicks? Or both? And in what form?

Thank you <3

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I would try the E and B-Complex to see if that helps.
400IU Vitamin E and 1/4 tablet B-Complex.

 

[PrincessKiara]

I would try the E and B-Complex to see if that helps.
400IU Vitamin E and 1/4 tablet B-Complex.

Smushed in food? Human pills?

Thank you btw <3

 

[FeatheredFriends&Horses2]

Have all the birds been in direct contact or close proximity with each other? Or is there some other common factor that you can think of? These could be handling without washing hands, same feed, even same water (although HIGHLY unlikely to cause issues), etc.

 

[PrincessKiara]

Have all the birds been in direct contact or close proximity with each other? Or is there some other common factor that you can think of? These could be handling without washing hands, same feed, even same water (although HIGHLY unlikely to cause issues), etc.

They all eat the same feed and drink the same water (though the feed is kept separate once it's served up). Chicks stay in the bedroom exclusively, adults and adolescents are in the living room since they're house chickens. All of the adults but Maple and most of the chicks are doing fine so I'm a little...okay, a lot, baffled.

A few of the coturnix chicks started getting crusty eyes, having head tremors, stretching their legs out and flipping belly up...one died, I had to cull three after three days of it getting worse, one is unlikely to make it and another is doing better, the rest of the quail chicks are all fine. A friend took half the batch of quail half a day after hatch and had that issue with only one of hers but it recovered spontaneously.

My vet said these symptoms along with Maple's make him suspect Marek's. Do you think that is likely given the circumstances? I'm pretty worried considering I have psittacines as well. But it was such sudden onset and they're so young too.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Smushed in food? Human pills?

Thank you btw <3

Yes, human pills. You can put it in her feed or give them to her directly.

Your vet thinks Maple's symptoms point to Marek's. That's a good possibility.

Quail, I don't know much about but crusty eyes and tremors does not sound too good.
Since you do have a vet, check with them about testing or call your state lab and send in a body if you lose another to find out what you are dealing with.

 

[PrincessKiara]

Yes, human pills. You can put it in her feed or give them to her directly.

Your vet thinks Maple's symptoms point to Marek's. That's a good possibility.

Quail, I don't know much about but crusty eyes and tremors does not sound too good.
Since you do have a vet, check with them about testing or call your state lab and send in a body if you lose another to find out what you are dealing with.

He told me there isn't any testing available here... I'm in Mexico so idk what else I could do or who I could go to...

I talked to quail breeders who think incubation issues, newspaper bedding (I ran out of shavings more are coming tomorrow) and nutrient deficiency may be to blame... I've begun putting RuViOtic in their food and it seems to have helped the only one who wasn't too far gone to actually eat.. so we'll see...

 

[FeatheredFriends&Horses2]

I am so sorry! I would agree that mareks fits the symptoms. The virus is spread by dander, so even though they're in separate rooms, it can be carried on hands, clothes, shoes, toys, or even in the vents. Any new birds you get will need to be kept separate from your current flock, and should be vaccinated. I would also suggest asking your vet about Newcastle's as it seems to fit better with me with the combination of digestive issues, nervous issues, and crusty eyes. Both mareks and Newcastle's can infect quail as well as chickens.