Hi,
I have a hen that I had thought had Mareks , but at 3 weeks is still eating/drinking well, altho she has stopped laying eggs and lost some weight. I have been giving her Hypercin, as I had read on a post here. The first day that she was down - she could not move her legs at all, but slowly has gotten to the point that she can now stand on her legs. The problem is that both feet are partially curled and she cannot open them out to walk. She tries to stumble along in the cage that she is in right now, but has no balance and uses her wings on the sides of the cage to move about.
She is a beautiful young hen, and i sure hate to cull her, but I don't think that she would ever be able to function well again as she is now, and the other hens would probably pick at her as the weakest.
What do you think? Should I wait a couple more weeks to see if she regains motion in her toes, or go ahead and cull.
I have a hen that I had thought had Mareks , but at 3 weeks is still eating/drinking well, altho she has stopped laying eggs and lost some weight. I have been giving her Hypercin, as I had read on a post here. The first day that she was down - she could not move her legs at all, but slowly has gotten to the point that she can now stand on her legs. The problem is that both feet are partially curled and she cannot open them out to walk. She tries to stumble along in the cage that she is in right now, but has no balance and uses her wings on the sides of the cage to move about.
She is a beautiful young hen, and i sure hate to cull her, but I don't think that she would ever be able to function well again as she is now, and the other hens would probably pick at her as the weakest.
What do you think? Should I wait a couple more weeks to see if she regains motion in her toes, or go ahead and cull.