Help! Recent freeze has left 6 of my chickens Lame-Can't walk!

[tammye]

try giving them vitamin B12 and vit. E and some electrolyte solution, it helped my hens who all of a sudden could not walk. I looked it up here and found it to be a common problem, a vitamin defficiency that is, it seems that another stressor, say a molt in my case and maybe the cold in yours can bring it on. My hens are now fine and walking like it never happened. I got vit. B complex vitamins in the powdered form of pills pulled them apart and put the power on fresh corn and they sucked it up, took about a week, I gave them vit. E everyother day for a week since it is fat soluable so they hold onto it longer, then once a week for a month. I gave them vit B everyday for a week, then everyothe day for another week, then once a week for a month, now I give them vit B once a month to support them through the winter. Good luck hope it helps