Need your help please, something is wrong!

[cochinbantam-lover]

I am going to try and add everything I am able so that hopefully you might have some suggestions for me.

I have a Barred Cochin bantam pullet she's almost a year old. She has been housed in a coop all winter, they are coming outside now tho. She didn't seem to be feeling well so i brought her inside in an old box I had a chicken in before that had some foot problems. She has not been injured and I don't see any bugs on her that I could see anyway. she seemed to be doing pretty good then in just a few days she seemed to be lame in one leg, so thought right away of scaley leg mites and treated her feet with first VetRx while I was rubbing it on my fingers has these little brown things almost the size of sesame seeds was that the mites maybe, then was doing some reading and saw that Vaseline was a good treatment for that so tonight i treated her feet and legs with that.. She doesn't seem at all interested in food or water but tonight I got her to drink a little bit and have been trying to get her to eat some plain yogurt I put some on her beak and she pecked some that fell on her. I also gave her a few drops of baby poly-vi-sol vitamins without iron.

She has gone down now to sitting flat down on her legs with her feet in front of her the past day or so that is why I was thinking scaley leg mites but I really have no idea about these things. I don't really see anything by her eyes or nostrils but not sure, what I did notice tho was a sound, you know the funny sound your tummy makes sometimes when you are full, not the growling sound but the other well that's what I heard. So maybe she has a cold? so I put a little of the VetRx by her nostrils hoping it went where it was needed. Her droppings not much there but it was kinda green and white. Sure hope you can give me some advice on how to proceed with this cuz today when I went out to take care of them I noticed another one of my pullets was not acting or looking quite right. I am very concerned about my chickens right now!

Thank you for any thoughts or suggestions you might have!

 

[Kiwibird]

If she has scaley leg mites the main thing you would see is lifted scales on the legs. It is possible that loosened scales were the little brown things you describe. Were they hollow on one side and rounded on the other, like the bowl of a spoon? If so, I would say she may well have scaley leg mites and the scales may be very loose as a result. Lameness is not a common result of scaley leg mite infestation unless it is extreme.

Green faeces indicate that she is not eating sufficient to meet her needs (or that she has eaten lots of green food, which is far less likely if she is sick).

Lame in one leg can be Marek's disease, so please read up on that, look at some photos of affected birds, and decide if it may be that.

You have done the right thing to isolate her.