My 4 month old Frizzle is paralyzed, but still eats and drinks!

[wvchix]

Is the feed medicated? How do you know the silkie has sour crop? If she does have sour crop stop giving her anything to eat for 24 hours and just give her water with quality apple cider vinegar to drink. Wait until her crop is completely empty (you can feel if the crop is empty) then only feed her plain yogurt and little scrambled eggs, little apple sauce etc... NO feed for at least 3 days than only small amounts with the yogurt etcc.... Stop the feed again if she doesn't have an empty crop by morning each day. Go back to the diet and try the feed again after 2 days. My vet said use a 10 day course of tylan 50 by injection for my other sick birds that had coughing, respiratory issues etc... My birds were not eating their feed, I was giving them to many scraps and they ended up with a pretty serious vitamin e deficiency. After treating the illnesses caused by their bad diet and adding the vitamins they needed to get back on track my birds were 100 percent better, but it took awhile.

Thanks for the advice! Her crop was full and felt like a water balloon. I got her to vomit and it smelled sour. I'll get her some yogurt in the morning. I stopped feeding her as soon as I caught it today. She just has water.

 

[Bloomin' Chickens]

Eek! I forgot something! My young bird that had sour crop actually got clogged up with grit thy was to big for her to pass through her system. If she's little stop the grit while your on the soft food diet and then when she's better only give her the chick grit. I give my full grown silkie's and serama's chick grit not the large grit.

 

[Bloomin' Chickens]

You also might want to push the apple cider vinegar and water by mou witha syringe. It might help wash through a possible blockage.

 

[Bloomin' Chickens]

What state do you live in? Has it when very rainy and wet?

 

[wvchix]

What state do you live in? Has it when very rainy and wet?

I live in WV and it's actually been pretty dry here.

 

[wvchix]

Eek! I forgot something! My young bird that had sour crop actually got clogged up with grit thy was to big for her to pass through her system. If she's little stop the grit while your on the soft food diet and then when she's better only give her the chick grit. I give my full grown silkie's and serama's chick grit not the large grit.

Could the oyster shell cause a blockage?

 

[wvchix]

You also might want to push the apple cider vinegar and water by mou witha syringe. It might help wash through a possible blockage.

I don't have any cider vinegar but I'll get some tomorrow. What type should I buy that's good quality?

 

[Bloomin' Chickens]

If you've seen chick grit it's pretty small. I know some of my oyster shell pieces are pretty big. Keep in mind that if she free ranges she could have eaten something out there too. You just don't know. Just keep her in and away from the others for quiet and a strick diet.

 

[Bloomin' Chickens]

The apple cider vinegar I use is Braggs.

 

[wvchix]

If you've seen chick grit it's pretty small. I know some of my oyster shell pieces are pretty big. Keep in mind that if she free ranges she could have eaten something out there too. You just don't know. Just keep her in and away from the others for quiet and a strick diet.

I have her and her sister together in another cage right now. I let her sister out to eat with the others, then put her back in. They just have water in the cage. They are about 8 months old and my other hens are 4 months old. Should I get the chick grit for all of them instead of the oyster shell?