Hen cant walk.

[seminolewind]

If her balance is deteriorating. Well silkies are vulnerable to head/brain injuries.
Is she skinny? Is her keel bone sharp?
Could you say it was weakness?
I think euthanizing is a choice you have to make. If she can't eat and drink by herself, and isn't looking any better, it's been 5 days.
Sorry.

 

[86121]

If her balance is deteriorating. Well silkies are vulnerable to head/brain injuries.
Is she skinny? Is her keel bone sharp?
Could you say it was weakness?
I think euthanizing is a choice you have to make. If she can't eat and drink by herself, and isn't looking any better, it's been 5 days.
Sorry.

Yes she is very skinny with a very sharp keel bone, she can prop herself up a little bit to eat when she uses her wings, but most of the time she only eats when I hold her up and she attacks the food like a Parana. I have to do this three times a day.
She is not getting weaker, she struggles to get upright every chance she can get until shes tired and gives up. She cant seem to balance, she flings her feet and flaps her wings, but she cant seem to get up off her butt, and when I position her feet the right way for her she stands for a second before she falls right back into her tush.
I was hoping I could figure out whats wrong with her, but I cant stand seeing her like this...
Thank you for verifying that culling is the right thing to do, I don't feel as horrible now.

 

[seminolewind]

You shouldn't feel horrible like it's wrong. It's humane. But I cry my eyes out anyway. My first Marek's victim was a silkie roo. Of course the one I snuggle with. I noticed one day he walked slow. Then one day he fell off the ramp to the coop (18 inches). I crated him. He couldn't move his legs, but he could turn himself around with his wings. He ate like crazy. But if I watched closely, I saw he was not really picking anything up. He started losing control of his neck. He would try to get up and fall over and rest for 20 minutes. It was awful. The vet did it. When I took him to the vet, he felt light as a feather.

 

[86121]

You shouldn't feel horrible like it's wrong. It's humane. But I cry my eyes out anyway. My first Marek's victim was a silkie roo. Of course the one I snuggle with. I noticed one day he walked slow. Then one day he fell off the ramp to the coop (18 inches). I crated him. He couldn't move his legs, but he could turn himself around with his wings. He ate like crazy. But if I watched closely, I saw he was not really picking anything up. He started losing control of his neck. He would try to get up and fall over and rest for 20 minutes. It was awful. The vet did it. When I took him to the vet, he felt light as a feather.

I feel horrible mostly because she has had the worst luck.
She survived my rooster when he massacred my show flock, then Hubby left her stuck under the coop after it rained and she froze to the ground, she was beaten up by my pet bantams and had to be separated, and now shes like this. My only surviving show hen, I kinda feel like I let her down. Its stupid I know...

 

[seminolewind]

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Awww. I have no doubt that you never wanted this to happen. I think most of us have had things happen that we wish we had prevented beforehand.

If she's had all that happen, wouldn't it be a good chance that she got her head whacked and suffered brain damage? That would unfortunately be better than Marek's. At least your flock would not be vulnerable.

 

[86121]

Awww. I have no doubt that you never wanted this to happen. I think most of us have had things happen that we wish we had prevented beforehand.

If she's had all that happen, wouldn't it be a good chance that she got her head whacked and suffered brain damage? That would unfortunately be better than Marek's. At least your flock would not be vulnerable.

I know, I know...And again thank you, i fell better for some reason with you telling me for some reason.
*sigh* Yeah I think that is what happened as she was not paralyzed, just unable to keep her balance...Ugh, it stinks either way T_T
Just to be safe im keeping an eye on the flock.

 

[seminolewind]

Winter, you've lost a few chickens already, and one went blind. I really think you should send a dead one (whenever) if another one dies, to a state animal disease lab. There's something going on, and I really do think it's time for you to consider it.

 

[86121]

Winter, you've lost a few chickens already, and one went blind. I really think you should send a dead one (whenever) if another one dies, to a state animal disease lab. There's something going on, and I really do think it's time for you to consider it.

I already did though, they said the hen died from a worm infestation and a heart defect.
Just like the hen I did an necropsy on *Minus the heart since I didn't know what to look for* Big M. If another hen dies ill send her out again, but I really don't know what to say or think. It could just be a string of bad luck/genetics, de-wormer resistant worms, and head trauma