- Apr 13, 2010
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Hi everyone,
my wife and I have been enjoying reading the forums for the past 3 month to learn how to treat our chickens, from feed and care to coop building. Our chickens have been a lot of fun. However, today we have to ask for help, we couldn't find the exact answer to our chicken health issue.
Our little Flower -a 14 weeks old silver sebright bantam- is scaring us:
Two weeks ago we found her in the coop with half her plumage gone, not moving and barely breathing. We put her inside on a sweater and under a heat lamp, and two days later she was eating, drinking and seemed she would make it through. On Monday the 29th, it was pretty warm here in Pittsburgh and we decided to put her back out. I stayed with her to see how she would be treated by the rest of the flock and realized she was limping. She only got into small fights with a small silky bantam until 5 minutes later she got attacked by a hawk that missed her but left 2 talon wounds on her back => back in the basement.
Anyways, today we can tell for sure her limping is getting worse, she can barely use her right leg. With further examination, there is pretty massive swelling on the right part of her back, her thigh and leg. It looks kind of yellowish and seems filled with fluid. The feathers are not growing back and she has been having some kind of small bloody bump close to her tail feathers for 2 weeks now. Her poop has been very foul smelling and, lighter brown and more liquid than the healthy flock outside. She kept pecking at her back the whole time she spent inside.
My first guess would be she is suffering from an infection, however I wouldn't know how to treat it. And we're afraid it might be Marek's due to the leg impairment...
We really love this little chick and feel very sorry for what she has been put through... Please help us fix our little survivor
my wife and I have been enjoying reading the forums for the past 3 month to learn how to treat our chickens, from feed and care to coop building. Our chickens have been a lot of fun. However, today we have to ask for help, we couldn't find the exact answer to our chicken health issue.
Our little Flower -a 14 weeks old silver sebright bantam- is scaring us:
Two weeks ago we found her in the coop with half her plumage gone, not moving and barely breathing. We put her inside on a sweater and under a heat lamp, and two days later she was eating, drinking and seemed she would make it through. On Monday the 29th, it was pretty warm here in Pittsburgh and we decided to put her back out. I stayed with her to see how she would be treated by the rest of the flock and realized she was limping. She only got into small fights with a small silky bantam until 5 minutes later she got attacked by a hawk that missed her but left 2 talon wounds on her back => back in the basement.
Anyways, today we can tell for sure her limping is getting worse, she can barely use her right leg. With further examination, there is pretty massive swelling on the right part of her back, her thigh and leg. It looks kind of yellowish and seems filled with fluid. The feathers are not growing back and she has been having some kind of small bloody bump close to her tail feathers for 2 weeks now. Her poop has been very foul smelling and, lighter brown and more liquid than the healthy flock outside. She kept pecking at her back the whole time she spent inside.
My first guess would be she is suffering from an infection, however I wouldn't know how to treat it. And we're afraid it might be Marek's due to the leg impairment...
We really love this little chick and feel very sorry for what she has been put through... Please help us fix our little survivor