Is my chicken sick?

[Pangy]

My girl has a wing that is drooping and she has a difficult time walking. She is still eating and drinking but I noticed this morning she is closing her eyes alot and just standing still. Can I clip her wing?

 

[Pangy]

More pics

 

[Silkiesarefluffydinos]

How old is she? She could have a wing injury, which is causing a lot of discomfort and stress, which might explain the barely able to walk thing, if it is just that one wing. If she is 12xweeks old or younger, it may be a sign of marek's disease

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hi, welcome to BYC!

That's definitely NOT normal. And she looks like a boy to me. Do you get eggs? He appears to be a handsome Easter Egger.

Clipping the wing won't change if the bird is ill or not. So I wouldn't do that unless they were flying over fences. The wing hanging low is a symptom.

The symptoms you describe sound like it COULD be coccidiosis. Because of the standing and sleeping. But boys do drop a wing like that and dance around their mates to entice them.

Only 1 out of the 9 strains of cocci present as blood in the stool. You can get a fecal float done at most vets for about $15 to confirm and make sure you are treating for the correct thing. I use Corid as it treats most strains of cocci, which is usually a problem in warm, humid conditions. The coccidia are in EVERY chicken poo so they are constantly exposed but it's a problem when there is an over growth of them. Corid is not an antibiotic and works by blocking thiamine to starve out/ slow the growth of the cocci and should not supplement vitamins during treatment.

Now that's just the simplest possibility. Could still be the onset of Marek's or something more serious.

Note the other chicken in pic 1 that he is standing by is also a cockerel.

 

[Pangy]

I got her in the middle of July as a baby chick. It's only one wing.Can I clip it so she doesn't keep tripping on it?

 

[Pangy]

So Puddles (one with the droopy wing) is a male and her sister is a male also?..

 

[Silkiesarefluffydinos]

If he keeps triiping on is you probably should keep her isolated from the others, just in case if it is a disease if it's contagious. It mat be coccidosis, but I think it's more serious than that. Coccidosis is usually both wongs, but since it's only that one... can she move the wing at at? You should probably take her to a vet and get the fecal float done still just in case it is a form of cocci. Either way I think she should go to a vet

 

[andreanar]

The other looks male to me too from what I can see of it.

 

[Pangy]

She can move it. Can I treat the cocci myself?

 

[andreanar]

Check that wing for injury. Check wing and joints. Possible injury, but more likely Mareks or coccidosis.