Guinea keet's leg won't stop shaking

[Huh]

A guinea keet under a week old hatched and basically from the start he couldn't use one of his legs he has since learned how to hop around but his leg has swollen and today his leg started shaking a lot I don't known how to help him I thought it was a slipped tendon but I'm not sure anymore I need help

(Posted this a few days ago but I didn't get any help so I decided to try again because his leg is getting worse shaky and more swollen

 

[Stipenvlerk]

I’m so sorry @Huh.
lasttime Didn’t work out
different approach!

@Mixed flock enthusiast and @R2elk I’m going to tagg you here since you take part in the guinnea fowl threads..

a fellow guinea enthousiast needs help with his/her keet and a few days ago no one came along with answers. Are you able to help?

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

A guinea keet under a week old hatched and basically from the start he couldn't use one of his legs he has since learned how to hop around but his leg has swollen and today his leg started shaking a lot I don't known how to help him I thought it was a slipped tendon but I'm not sure anymore I need help View attachment 2226163View attachment 2226164View attachment 2226165View attachment 2226166View attachment 2226163

(Posted this a few days ago but I didn't get any help so I decided to try again because his leg is getting worse shaky and more swollen

Hi Huh (did you do that on purpose? ;-) , I just looked through your pictures. I think it looks and sounds like perosis, which is where the Achilles’ tendon doesn’t fit right into the bony groove that holds it in place at the hock. If you google perosis and search BYC threads, you’ll see it’s pretty common in newly hatched poultry.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/slipped-tendon-perosis-in-ducks.1213225/
It’s very difficult to treat, and maybe especially difficult in guineas. For my first keet that hatched with this, I consulted with an avian expert vet who told me about the keet he’d treated surgically, had complications, and ended up costing the owners $15K!!!! I instead tried physical therapy and taping, but the keet was miserable with the whole thing, and I ended up euthanizing it as it wasn’t improving.

My last hatch had several with spraddle leg and one with perosis, possibly because I failed to get them tranferrred from the turner fast enough and they hatched in the turner (big mistake! I’ll never do that again!!!). The spraddle leg keets were easy to treat but the perosis keet was miserable and died. I would have euthanized it at hatch but only my teen daughter was caring for them at the time due to a quarantine we had going, and she was too soft hearted to euthanize it. Anyway, all of this way too rambling explanation is to say that my personal experience with perosis in keets has been poor, and my current plan is to euthanize any keets that hatch with this condition due to poor quality of life in those keets. I’m sorry that I don’t have anything more hopeful to add. Was your OP in the Diseases forum? That’s a busy forum and stuff gets buried sometimes, but that’s the best place to look for anyone who might have successfully treated it if that’s what you decide to try.

 

[Huh]

Thank you both very much after reading about it some I have a few things to try before I give up the keet still seems to have spirit and I put some mild painkillers in his water

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Thank you both very much after reading about it some I have a few things to try before I give up the keet still seems to have spirit and I put some mild painkillers in his water

Best of luck! I hope you’ll update us on how it does.

 

[Huh]

Nothing new today painkillers haven't helped noticeably plan to increase it and at this point I'm wondering if he'd be better off without his lower leg I might sound completely stupid but I know a vet who might do it

 

[Huh]

And I know that if I tried to get his leg removed it is likely he'd die from anesthesia or shock

 

[Huh]

Update gave keet some crushed aspirin in his food and he acted like his pain was better I need something stronger before I try to work with him but it's good news

 

[Huh]

Two days ago I gave the keet some powerful painkiller and wrapped his leg he did fine for the days after but today quite recently he passed away not sure what killed him in the end though

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Two days ago I gave the keet some powerful painkiller and wrapped his leg he did fine for the days after but today quite recently he passed away not sure what killed him in the end though

Sorry to hear that!