foxandhenhouse
In the Brooder
- Mar 10, 2019
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ADVICE NEEDED:
Our one year old Welsh Harelquin, Scully, has been inside for almost two weeks struggling with some sort of neurological or muscular issue. Frequently, when she tips her head back like for a drink, it’s triggering muscle spasms (or seizing?). I’ll try to attach a video. If we put our hand behind her head or anchor her backside, it seems to interrupt the spasm and she can drink, eat, preen, etc again. If we don’t, she sometimes flips herself over and ends up rolling around wildly on her back for awhile.
She has no problems holding her head upright and her neck doesn’t seem limp. We brought her to the vet last week. His best guess was a concussion triggering neurological symptoms. There’s no evidence of lead poisoning and the symptoms improving to much over the last two weeks suggest this isn’t toxin related. None of our other 15 birds are showing any symptoms.
Over the week, her appetite has improved, she’s drinking less water (which seems promising! She was doing over 2c in a sitting), and she just finished a week long course of metacam. She’s curious and chipper. But as of yesterday (the day before her prescription ran out), the spasms are much much more frequent.
I have a call into the vet to make a plan. In the meantime, we observe her and let her eat and drink for several hours a day interspersed and otherwise she’s in a well padded spot in the dark to rest and protect her in case of more spasming.
Has anyone seen this before? Any advice?
Our one year old Welsh Harelquin, Scully, has been inside for almost two weeks struggling with some sort of neurological or muscular issue. Frequently, when she tips her head back like for a drink, it’s triggering muscle spasms (or seizing?). I’ll try to attach a video. If we put our hand behind her head or anchor her backside, it seems to interrupt the spasm and she can drink, eat, preen, etc again. If we don’t, she sometimes flips herself over and ends up rolling around wildly on her back for awhile.
She has no problems holding her head upright and her neck doesn’t seem limp. We brought her to the vet last week. His best guess was a concussion triggering neurological symptoms. There’s no evidence of lead poisoning and the symptoms improving to much over the last two weeks suggest this isn’t toxin related. None of our other 15 birds are showing any symptoms.
Over the week, her appetite has improved, she’s drinking less water (which seems promising! She was doing over 2c in a sitting), and she just finished a week long course of metacam. She’s curious and chipper. But as of yesterday (the day before her prescription ran out), the spasms are much much more frequent.
I have a call into the vet to make a plan. In the meantime, we observe her and let her eat and drink for several hours a day interspersed and otherwise she’s in a well padded spot in the dark to rest and protect her in case of more spasming.
Has anyone seen this before? Any advice?
