Well it has been 5 weeks since i suspected Baby had Meriks, and have been treating her with Hypercin - st. johns wort, as someone here had mentioned.
She had been mostly paralzyed, but has come to the point where she can stand on her feet, but they will not open fully up and enable her to walk. Her toes are flexibile, but she cannot control them. Otherwise she seems healthy, but has lost weight and stopped laying.
I let the hens all out last evening, since it was the first day in several months that the ground didn't have snow on it. I carried her out and set her in a grassy spot, several of the other hens came by her and tried to attack, but I kept shooing them away. she just stood there and could not move or walk about. I put her in another spot, and she just looked at me.
So, sadly, I am going to put her down. she fought a hard battle and I don't want her to be picked to death by the other hens or kept in a cage the rest of her life. it is not something that I want to do, but feel that that it is best to end her life quickly and painlessly.
She had been mostly paralzyed, but has come to the point where she can stand on her feet, but they will not open fully up and enable her to walk. Her toes are flexibile, but she cannot control them. Otherwise she seems healthy, but has lost weight and stopped laying.
I let the hens all out last evening, since it was the first day in several months that the ground didn't have snow on it. I carried her out and set her in a grassy spot, several of the other hens came by her and tried to attack, but I kept shooing them away. she just stood there and could not move or walk about. I put her in another spot, and she just looked at me.
So, sadly, I am going to put her down. she fought a hard battle and I don't want her to be picked to death by the other hens or kept in a cage the rest of her life. it is not something that I want to do, but feel that that it is best to end her life quickly and painlessly.
