PLEASE help!! 9 weeks old chick not walking

[Fuster Cluck]

Much luck, sararoni -
My layer is experiencing something similar right now. I posted a video of her hoping for advice and have gleaned LOTS of ideas from reading your thread - so thank you for it! I'll continue to watch here and hope for the best for your chick. xx

 

[sararoni]

She looks better to me today. I guess pinching has worked.
The legs are still weak and when I touch them they have a trembling like electricity goes in them. I don't know if that is good or not.
Appetite is not bad but the scale has not arrived and the ebay seller said she hasn't shipped it yet although I told her it was urgently needed for a sick bird.

Thank you fuster cluck for the good wishes and I hope your hen gets better too.

 

[Fancychooklady]

She looks better to me today. I guess pinching has worked.
The legs are still weak and when I touch them they have a trembling like electricity goes in them. I don't know if that is good or not.
Appetite is not bad but the scale has not arrived and the ebay seller said she hasn't shipped it yet although I told her it was urgently needed for a sick bird.

Thank you fuster cluck for the good wishes and I hope your hen gets better too.

She does look like she has improved. Keep the vitamins up to here and a little massage to the legs wouldn't go astray. Btw the ' pinch test ' is just to gauge whether or not there is any nerve sensation in the limb '.
Just keep offering her her food, mine like steamed mixed veges and left over spaghetti.

 

[casportpony]

Wow, she does look better!

-Kathy

 

[Nambroth]

Her posture surely seems improved. I am hoping for the best!!

 

[sararoni]

She can hold that posture only for a little bit after I put her there from her swing then she goes back to laying down.
Her feet are still too weak and trembling

 

[Fancychooklady]

She can hold that posture only for a little bit after I put her there from her swing then she goes back to laying down.
Her feet are still too weak and trembling

Could just be a general weakness after being so long down . A shortfall in magnesium will also result in trembling. Either way it is some improvement .

 

[enola]

How is she this morning?

 

[sararoni]

She is the same and her legs tremble a lot. She moves around using he wings but can't open the toes at all.
Yesterday I fed her spaghetti mixed with coconut oil and vitamins and she ate them all.
Her poop is not green.

 

[sararoni]

She is still the same today.
Her posture seems sometimes improved but when I watch closer her legs are still the same. I think she has learned to use the wings better to compensate.
I keep giving her the vitamins and she eats by herself when I put them in front of her. Alternating them so she finds them more interesting.
She can even get herself out of the swing flapping the wings.
I am not sure if she can push herself up a little with her legs because they look useless to me.
I am giving her vitamin E drops too.
I am stuck with a handicapped chicken...and she watches tv with us