crysticalll
Hatching
- Aug 15, 2020
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One week ago My chicken sitter sent me a video that one of my girls in the quarantine coop/run is limping and not putting weight on her left leg.
Backstory: I’ve had these three babies in the quarantine coop and run I had to make since august after adopting two other sick birds the same week (I didn’t know were sick) from a ‘breeder’ and after a couple months of trying everything with the vets both eventually passed. Autopsies didn’t show mareks instead it showed inflammation of the liver and a sinus issue they were not able to get over. The culture came back not to be one of the ‘scary’ ones to worry about according to the vet. During this time with the two sick birds they had coccidia and lice also and all five birds were treated with ivermectin though my cochins and lil peep did not have lice but shared space with them. They did have coccidia though that they could not get over and were treated by the vet 3 times with meds. I had been waiting to get the results of these autopsies back to see if I could ever add these three bantam cochins to my regular flock. They have been living together and totally healthy except last Tuesday I noticed was really backed up and had poop stuck to her and was almost impacted but I caught it just in time and gave her a bath and cleaned her up and trimmed the feathers around her vent but i didn’t know what was up. Fast forward to Thursday my pet sitter who comes to let my rooster out in days I work in the city early checked on them and sent me a video of her limping around not putting weight on her foot.
Lil peep is my bird in question now who is limping. She has gone to the vet and had an X-ray that showed nothing was wrong no broken bones she doesn’t have bumble foot and was given an anti inflammatory daily for a week in hopes it would improve. She is about 8.5 months old and has not laid yet.
They suspect it could be mareks but she is over 6 months old and my other two quarantine birds who passed earlier in the year didn’t show signs of mareks instead they showed hepatitis and a sinus infection disease. The vet put her on an anti inflammatory hoping it would help but it didn’t and at our recheck yesterday she said if lil peep keeps losing weight (lost 20grams but is still eating fine and hopping around) we will have to put her to sleep.
I’m waiting to hear from
The vet but they are slammed with covid and don’t have a great response rate so my question is : could she possibly have a vitamin b deficiency effecting her sciatic nerve? She has trouble curling her toes and moving that leg but otherwise is fine.
The vet is having me try gabapentin and the anti inflammatory for another two weeks but can anyone recommend a b supplement I can try and how much would I give? And for how long? She weighs 2 pounds right now.
I emailed my vet about this and waiting for a response also. Thanks for any help she’s such a sweetie and I jsut want her to recover
Backstory: I’ve had these three babies in the quarantine coop and run I had to make since august after adopting two other sick birds the same week (I didn’t know were sick) from a ‘breeder’ and after a couple months of trying everything with the vets both eventually passed. Autopsies didn’t show mareks instead it showed inflammation of the liver and a sinus issue they were not able to get over. The culture came back not to be one of the ‘scary’ ones to worry about according to the vet. During this time with the two sick birds they had coccidia and lice also and all five birds were treated with ivermectin though my cochins and lil peep did not have lice but shared space with them. They did have coccidia though that they could not get over and were treated by the vet 3 times with meds. I had been waiting to get the results of these autopsies back to see if I could ever add these three bantam cochins to my regular flock. They have been living together and totally healthy except last Tuesday I noticed was really backed up and had poop stuck to her and was almost impacted but I caught it just in time and gave her a bath and cleaned her up and trimmed the feathers around her vent but i didn’t know what was up. Fast forward to Thursday my pet sitter who comes to let my rooster out in days I work in the city early checked on them and sent me a video of her limping around not putting weight on her foot.
Lil peep is my bird in question now who is limping. She has gone to the vet and had an X-ray that showed nothing was wrong no broken bones she doesn’t have bumble foot and was given an anti inflammatory daily for a week in hopes it would improve. She is about 8.5 months old and has not laid yet.
They suspect it could be mareks but she is over 6 months old and my other two quarantine birds who passed earlier in the year didn’t show signs of mareks instead they showed hepatitis and a sinus infection disease. The vet put her on an anti inflammatory hoping it would help but it didn’t and at our recheck yesterday she said if lil peep keeps losing weight (lost 20grams but is still eating fine and hopping around) we will have to put her to sleep.
I’m waiting to hear from
The vet but they are slammed with covid and don’t have a great response rate so my question is : could she possibly have a vitamin b deficiency effecting her sciatic nerve? She has trouble curling her toes and moving that leg but otherwise is fine.
The vet is having me try gabapentin and the anti inflammatory for another two weeks but can anyone recommend a b supplement I can try and how much would I give? And for how long? She weighs 2 pounds right now.
I emailed my vet about this and waiting for a response also. Thanks for any help she’s such a sweetie and I jsut want her to recover