My hen is still limping and lethargic

[Dalylah]

My year old hen was limping yesterday and holding her wing out from her body on the same side. She is still eating and drinking but lethargic and laying on her eggs with her feathers puffed up. She did lay yesterday but I don’t see any wounds or swelling. Does anyone know what I could do to help her.

 

[azygous]

It can be anything from weakness from not getting enough to eat due to being bullied away from the feeder to a more serious avian virus such as Marek's.

It will be simple to see if this is more likely from not getting enough to eat by giving her some sugar in her drinking water and serving her an irresistible dish of scrambled egg or boiled rice with a little yogurt or cottage cheese. If she dives into it and it perks her right up, and the imbalance and lameness disappear, it's from starvation and you may need to treat her for a bully/victim issue.

 

[Dalylah]

It can be anything from weakness from not getting enough to eat due to being bullied away from the feeder to a more serious avian virus such as Marek's.

It will be simple to see if this is more likely from not getting enough to eat by giving her some sugar in her drinking water and serving her an irresistible dish of scrambled egg or boiled rice with a little yogurt or cottage cheese. If she dives into it and it perks her right up, and the imbalance and lameness disappear, it's from starvation and you may need to treat her for a bully/victim issue.

I thought they can’t get Mareks if they are over 6 months of age?

 

[azygous]

Chickens can come down with Marek's symptoms at any age. If chicks are exposed to Marek's soon after hatch, they usually develop symptoms between eight weeks and three months. Not all become symptomatic. Chickens can carry Marek's or lyphoid leucosis, a very common avian virus similar in symptoms, and never become symptomatic. I have very old hens, twelve and thirteen years, that have carried an avian virus all their lives but have never shown symptoms.

 

[Dalylah]

Chickens can come down with Marek's symptoms at any age. If chicks are exposed to Marek's soon after hatch, they usually develop symptoms between eight weeks and three months. Not all become symptomatic. Chickens can carry Marek's or lyphoid leucosis, a very common avian virus similar in symptoms, and never become symptomatic. I have very old hens, twelve and thirteen years, that have carried an avian virus all their lives but have never shown symptoms.

small update- she seems a little more active, I did look her over for mites, fleas, eta. And nothing but she is scratching A LOT . Her poops are also very small, like little chick poops but that could also be from her eating less. Hasn’t layed since yesterday.