Legs seem paralyzed - two pullets now

[Tumbleweedlynn]

Has anyone else had this happen? Really curious as to what this could be.

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

Ok, so here is poop from within the last hour. The brown poops were within about 30 minutes of each other and belong to the worse of the girls, the green poop is from the droopy wing girl. They have been fed scrambled eggs, scratch, worms and had access to their feed all day. They don’t seem to be drinking (their water has nutridrench), I gave them vitamin e and b complex.

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

ANDDDD…

Here are pictures of their faces. Droopy wings has two weird pink sores on her side of her face.

Stumbler has an odd looking yellowish something on the corners of her beak.

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

Well, one of my most loving, gentle and tame Cemani pullets died, as well. She looked off yesterday, I put her with these two in their apartment, and came home from appointments today and she was dead in their run. No prior indicators on her of any signs of illness.

@Wyorp Rock - can you please look at their poop? I have my Cemani in the refrigerator, but I’m not sure if the heat degraded her.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

The yellow on the side of her beak is just her coloring, but does she also have something red inside her beak? Have you given them anything red to eat (berries/tomato, etc.)?
Could they have suffered injury or been bitten by something?

Are they being picked on by others?
Are they new to you or have you had them a good while?

Is it just these 2 that are affected?


The brown poop is cecal poop, but does have mucous. Hard to know which way to go on this one.
I'd still want to give vitamin therapy and get them on chick starter or an all flock feed, cut out extra treats, plus treat for Coccidiosis. A sulfa antibiotic may be the way to go, this will help treat Coccidiosis and infection and you can still give the vitamin therapy.

Do you see any lesions or yellow/pasty material inside the beaks?

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

The yellow on the side of her beak is just her coloring, but does she also have something red inside her beak? Have you given them anything red to eat (berries/tomato, etc.)?
Could they have suffered injury or been bitten by something?

Are they being picked on by others?
Are they new to you or have you had them a good while?

Is it just these 2 that are affected?


The brown poop is cecal poop, but does have mucous. Hard to know which way to go on this one.
I'd still want to give vitamin therapy and get them on chick starter or an all flock feed, cut out extra treats, plus treat for Coccidiosis. A sulfa antibiotic may be the way to go, this will help treat Coccidiosis and infection and you can still give the vitamin therapy.

Do you see any lesions or yellow/pasty material inside the beaks?
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Oh, thank you so much!

The red was b12 liquid. They were a part of my flock of my last hatch, so I have raised them with 12 others I hatched. They have been removed and placed in the “apartment/med unit”, away from the flock by a wire/tin wall. They are not being picked on and do not have any injuries.

None of any of my other birds from two different flocks (a total of 30) are sick like these two, or at all.

I will put them back on chick starter tomorrow and stop treats. I was just giving them anything they would eat, as their crops were pretty empty, and I didn’t want them to starve.

Aqua mox will work, I believe? And stay on the vitamins. I bought the b complex today and a pill cutter, so I can start that tomorrow, as well. I’m not too optimistic, they looked pathetic when I left them this evening. I will look in their beaks tomorrow for lesions or anything off.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Amoxicillin can help with bacterial infection, it won't treat Coccidiosis.
If you have a vet that can run a quick fecal float, that will give you the best info on whether or not to treat for that.

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

Amoxicillin can help with bacterial infection, it won't treat Coccidiosis.
If you have a vet that can run a quick fecal float, that will give you the best info on whether or not to treat for that.

I have Corid.

I will keep calling around for a vet that I trust can get this seemingly easy test done. In the meantime, should I treat with Corid and stop the b vitamins? Does coccidiosis present as the stumbling around, legs acting useless? I know the poop is a strong indicator, just haven’t had an official case before, so I am unsure what it looks like.

Thanks!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Were you able to get a fecal float?

They can stumble and have balance problems with Coccidiosis among 100s of other things.

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

Were you able to get a fecal float?

They can stumble and have balance problems with Coccidiosis among 100s of other things.

I was not able to today, but am taking a sample in tomorrow to my vet who hasn’t done a fecal float for a chicken. We’ll see how that goes.

They got their daily doses of vitamins e and b, and I put some rooster booster in their water and probiotics in their crumble. They are hanging in there - still eating and flopping around. I saw no lesions or anything in their beaks.