Piou-piou is an 11 months old mutt. She was a runt chick and has stayed small with slightly deformed legs (too small). She weighs 1kg.
She has been isolated for nearly two months after we discovered a bad wound under her wing from her rooster's mating. She had to go back to the vet for stitches on the 2d of may as her wound had reopened, but since then it's almost completely healed. Three days ago we began letting her free range on her own for two hours period supervising her
Yesterday afternoon, after acting completely healthy we saw her suddenly thrashing around for a minute : shaking her head wildly and moving backwards.
After that she looked very unwell so I put her back in her crate. She kept losing balance. She had another thrashing episode shaking her head and body. She climbed on her small roost but fell. She could not stand on her feet. She had her wings wide spread and her mouth open.
We thought she may have swallowed something that was stuck. We could not look inside her beak as she was trashing around too much, however feeling her trachea nothing felt wrong. Her old wound was not reopened. We could not find anything broken or any injury.
We put her to sleep in the crate. She ate a lot of commercial feed but had trouble lying down to sleep.
This morning we put her on a table to observe her. She stands upright on both legs but as soon as she moves she stumbles to the side. It's as if her rear end was paralysed. I couldn't feel anything special touching her wings. She ate and drank very little and is now sleeping.
Other symptoms are that she did not poop throughout the night, her crop felt hard and not empty this morning, and she is hot.
I'm at loss with the cause. Possible thoughts : we may have a respiratory type of disease in our flock as two chickens have had a swollen eye / side of the face in the last ten days (one only today) but they showed no sign of illness. But would it happen so suddenly ? This morning her breathing is normal.
Other thoughts : could she have swallowed some type of poison or have had a stroke ?
She is too unwell to be taken to the vet (it's a two hour difficult ride). Any suggestions for helping her would be appreciated; I'm in France so I don't have access to the same exact medications as in the US.
Videos showing her attitude:
She has been isolated for nearly two months after we discovered a bad wound under her wing from her rooster's mating. She had to go back to the vet for stitches on the 2d of may as her wound had reopened, but since then it's almost completely healed. Three days ago we began letting her free range on her own for two hours period supervising her
Yesterday afternoon, after acting completely healthy we saw her suddenly thrashing around for a minute : shaking her head wildly and moving backwards.
After that she looked very unwell so I put her back in her crate. She kept losing balance. She had another thrashing episode shaking her head and body. She climbed on her small roost but fell. She could not stand on her feet. She had her wings wide spread and her mouth open.
We thought she may have swallowed something that was stuck. We could not look inside her beak as she was trashing around too much, however feeling her trachea nothing felt wrong. Her old wound was not reopened. We could not find anything broken or any injury.
We put her to sleep in the crate. She ate a lot of commercial feed but had trouble lying down to sleep.
This morning we put her on a table to observe her. She stands upright on both legs but as soon as she moves she stumbles to the side. It's as if her rear end was paralysed. I couldn't feel anything special touching her wings. She ate and drank very little and is now sleeping.
Other symptoms are that she did not poop throughout the night, her crop felt hard and not empty this morning, and she is hot.
I'm at loss with the cause. Possible thoughts : we may have a respiratory type of disease in our flock as two chickens have had a swollen eye / side of the face in the last ten days (one only today) but they showed no sign of illness. But would it happen so suddenly ? This morning her breathing is normal.
Other thoughts : could she have swallowed some type of poison or have had a stroke ?
She is too unwell to be taken to the vet (it's a two hour difficult ride). Any suggestions for helping her would be appreciated; I'm in France so I don't have access to the same exact medications as in the US.
Videos showing her attitude:
