PLEASE help!! 9 weeks old chick not walking

[Fancychooklady]

Because it's water soluble it will pass through her system and be excreted in her urates, which will be bright yellow/orange , as Kathy said.

 

[Frizzlett]

There are so many kinds of poop, this chart illustrates just a few. Perhaps a fecal sample to the vet would give you a more definitive answer

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/02/whats-scoop-on-chicken-poop-digestive.html

Thanks for the link! I've been worried about my chickens poo but this put my mind to rest as mine are all normal!

 

[sararoni]

Thanks fancychooklady,phew so she won't die from it.
Rbaker0345 I fear about mareks because these chicks didn't have the vaccine. My only hope was that she was too young when the leg issues started.
Kathy I hope I had a dummy luck with the b2 and she will start walking

 

[Fancychooklady]

There are many vitamin deficiencies that can lead to muscle dystrophy . D,E, B12, B1, B6, niacin and choline . The recommended dosage for riboflavin deficiency is 100ug, followed by adequate amounts of riboflavin in the feed. I would be considering changing feeds all together and adding an avian multi vit to the water on a regular /weekly basis. Once the sciatic nerve is damaged riboflavin supplementation will no longer be effective.

http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/pou..._poultry/vitamin_deficiencies_in_poultry.html

 

[sararoni]

Fancychooklady thanks for the vitamin deficiency link. I am still going through it.
These 6 chicks will be 10 months old tomorrow and they still are on chick starter. I have maybe about 15 pounds of feed left and I was thinking to change them to grower feed now.
Do you mean maybe the bag of feed I got might have been old and some of the vitamins lost?
On my friends house they were on an organic feed bought from the same store. I checked that first but it was lower protein and since the leg issues started the second day they came to my place, I decided to get them the nonorganic one. It was higher in protein and I had used that before without problems with other chicks.
I will get them all avian vitamins. The feed store had some bottled ones but I will recheck with them and order it online if necessary as no tractor supply or other big retailer nearby.
I checked today petco and petsmart but they only had little birds vitamins.

I hate the premixed ground feeds that you dont know what have inside or how fresh they are.

I was lucky with my other 7 chickens. They just got the first bag of chick starter and then I have been feeding them a home mixed feed of oats, wheat or barley, Boss, flax seeds and corn.
Also they get fresh brew grain, kitchen scraps and garden greens everyday.

I am having bad luck with the new chicks and they were fed commercial feed from the start . I hope with all your help It will turn around

 

[casportpony]

Your bag of feed should have a date code on the bottom of it. If it doesn't have a date code, it should have a lot number and you can call the mfg and ask when that bag was made. Tractor Supply has a very nasty habit of placing older bags of feed on top of the pile, so I always check the label and often have them pull bags from the bottom of the pile. Yesterday they tried to sell me bags that were four months old!

-Kathy

 

[sararoni]

I checked the bag it has 6/10/14 on it. It looks that's the packed date. I got it 7 weeks ago so it must have been pretty fresh. I will remember to check the date when I buy again, thank you Kathy for reminding me.
This chicks were at my friend's house for 2 weeks and he has not experienced any problems with his chickens before, plus he is way more experienced than me. If they got something when they were born at the breeders house, we don't know.
My other chickens were vaccinated as chicks from mareks and I never had similar problems with them. No coccidosid, nothing.
Thinking back only one of them has a red butt and diarrhea sometimes. She is over 3 years old and the new chicks were not even exposed to her or where she lives with the others.
If it was brought by wild birds to my yard, the chicks got sick while inside the house.
I am brainstorming the possibilities and kind of talking aloud here.
If it is mareks I read it can't be transmitted from the mom to the egg but I don't know how they were hatched

 

[sararoni]

Is this a good vitamin supplement to buy??

 

[Fancychooklady]

Is this a good vitamin supplement to buy??

Yes , so long as it is a poultry one. Your chicks should not be on starter at 10 months of age. It's not medicated starter is it ?

 

[chanceschickens]

Check feet for bumble foot