Paralyzed chicken?

[Talyn featherhead]

It sounds like nutrition is a problem, and not feeding a balanced chicken feed as the majority of their diet could be causing vitamin or mineral deficiency. About all you can do for that is to improve their diet to a balanced feed, cut out the scraps and rice, and make sure they can get to food and water. Mites are killers, and treating the chickens and the coop at 7 day intervals with permethrin or Elector PSP is a good start.

oh okay. Should the coops have dietomacious earth as well? Thanks for the sm for the tips

 

[Talyn featherhead]

Mites will suck the life right out of a chicken. That should be first priority. Dust with a permetrin power. Concentrate on vent and under the wings, but make sure it gets down to the skin. If she has mites, then the entire flock should be treated along with the coop/run. Discard/burn all bedding and spray the coop with a permethrin based liquid - measured correctly. Get all nook and cracks and allow to dry before allowing chickens back in area.

Also, she needs to stop all food except her normal feed. She can wet it to make a mash if the chicken is not interested right now.

If she were my chicken, I would start her on vitamin therapy to help her get over this issue. 1/3 super b complex and a vit e capsule with a little bit of egg to help with the uptake of the vit e. I would do this until she is feeling/acting normal.

If the mites are causing this then without these steps for the mites, the chicken has little hope of recovery.

So its possible to remove all the mites? She has put yeast (for the vitamin 5 complex) in the mash for the chicken and did end up adding some egg to the mix. They unfortunately did put the hen down yesterday, but thank you so much for these tips. I'll tell her the chicken lifestyle changes and hopefully this wont happen again

 

[Eggcessive]

DE is controversial. It won’t treat an active mite infestation. It can irritate eyes and breathing of both people and the chickens. I would prefer to use permethrin or Elector psp for mites.