Luckyt21
Songster
How does one treat for botulism? I have a 5 month old polish cockerel that was limping a week ago & now he cannot stand at all. Is just laying on his hocks / feet all day. No attack that I am aware of. He also had diarrhea so I treated him with a 3 day Corid drench, bathed him in epsom salt bath a couple times, blow dried him & made him a sling to keep him off the ground & getting poop on himself. He doesn’t seem to mind being in the sling & in a tote in our bathtub. His poop is getting more solid but has green stuff in it. He is eating wet foot, Greek yogurt, egg yolk with B complex (Not all together) Have given him poultry cell vitamins, electrolyte water, mealworms, a haircut. He sleeps a lot & is breathing fine. I am a new chicken mom since March. All of my other chickens in my mixed flock of 16 seem fine at the moment, but I did have another hen from my flock just pass away about a week ago. 6 of my 16 were vaccinated against Mareks at the hatchery I am worried if this all could be something that my birds are being exposed to. They do free range half day on our 10 wild wooded acres on a lake in MN. Any ideas or suggestions would be welcomed!! TY