Heat Stress/Heat stroke - How long do symptoms last?

[Eggcessive]

Sorry that you are dealing with the sickness, but hoping the rest pull through.

 

[MROO]

Sorry for the typos - the MALE D-Uccles, not "make." I'm just so upset, right now. Happy birthday to me. What a day.

 

[micstrachan]

Oh no! I’m so sorry. And I’m
doubley sorry for missing your tag on the weekend. I agree it is sounding as much like Marek’s as coccidiosis at this point. So sorry about this happening on your birthday. How heartbreaking! Is your vet friend able to give some ideas? Do you have results from the fecal float? The chocolate comb sounds peculiar. It also seems odd to me that it’s hitting so hard all at once, unless it is coccidiosis. Like @Eggcessive already mentioned, it’s also possible coccidiosis caused Marek’s to flare up.

Wondering if it could be some other protozoan like histomoniasis or even botulism poisoning. Thoughts? @rebrascora @casportpony @Wyorp Rock @azygous @dawg53 @coach723 @aart

 

[Eggcessive]

I think the male standing over chattering to the other sick bird is pretty normal. I lost my little d’uccle rooster a couple of years ago, and his little hen mate sure has missed him. He had a little flock of banties, and they all coexisted with the many other large birds in the flock. She and a little OEG are the only tiny ones left.

With the ones that were frozen, I don’t know if you could possibly do your own necropsy to look for tumors if they were thawed. That might be the only thing that would be visible. Frequently, the liver is spotted and there may be tiny tumors on other organs. Sorry that you are dealing with this.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Maybe pick up some Nutridrench.

 

[aart]

@aart

Sorry, this is beyond me...have dealt with heat stroke, she was blinded, but she revived within a day with Sav-A-Chick, given with a Qtip for the first 4 hours.
Now give it regularly when they show sign of heat stress....
...and the giant all day ice chunks really do seem to help cool them off.

Necrospy is the only way to really know what is wrong.
Best of Luck to you.

 

[MROO]

Maybe pick up some Nutridrench.

Funny you would suggest this! Fella, my D'Uccles, collapsed exactly like Peanut did - in minutes! I practically poured Chick Saver into him (all I had left on short notice.) He drank it down without batting an eye - and within ten minutes, he was up and talking to FeatherFoot again. This is SO WEIRD!!!
I now have Rooster Booster's liquid B 12 with Vitamin K and Durvet's Vitamins and Electrolytes for Poultry (a powder to mix into water.) We still have one more day to go on the Corid, but I'm told that Corid depletes Vitamin B to "starve" the coccidia (?) Should I start the vitamins? I'm grasping at straws, here, but I'll do what I can to keep them alive until I can get them either tested (fecal float, necropsy, blood test, whatever!) or they give up.
The emergency vet doesn't have any help, right now. The avian specialist isn't on duty, but they're trying to reach her.

 

[aart]

I practically poured Chick Saver into him

Not literally, I hope...probably not, but gotta say:
it's pretty easy to drown them by 'pouring' or squirting liquid into their mouths.

 

[MROO]

Sorry, this is beyond me...have dealt with heat stroke, she was blinded, but she revived within a day with Sav-A-Chick, given with a Qtip for the first 4 hours.
Now give it regularly when they show sign of heat stress....
...and the giant all day ice chunks really do seem to help cool them off.

Necrospy is the only way to really know what is wrong.
Best of Luck to you.

They can see, and they're wobbly, but it appears to be more weakness than lameness. The heat stroke was just the first day. They've been in the AC ever since and the ones left outside are doing fine with Corid, ice and frozen blueberries. Fella recovered from the heat stroke quickly with a little cool water - inside and out, but when he didn't come all the way back by the next day, I started looking beyond the heat. That's when the others started to look sick. Once Fella got the Chick Starter in him, he ate and drank unaided and is moving around the kennel on his own, talking to his lady-friend.

 

[micstrachan]

Wait... nutridrench may counteract Amprolium. Does it have Thiamine (B1)?