Hi, thank you so much for reading this and I hope that my buff orp, Ginger can benefit from others exp. On Sept 5, I found Ginger, a 6 month old Buff, collapased in her coop. She could not walk. She had not yet laid her first egg, her sister had just laid maybe a week or 10 days before.
I checked the BYC site, and suspected she was egg bound so soaked her in a warm soapy bath. After several hours she laid an egg w/out a shell. I figured this was over- and she would get up. 18 days now... in the last week, her stools are totally normal and she is alert and eating and drinking. I have been giving her a tums daily crushed in something delicious and recently added a vitamin C. She is on laying mash.
Finally. yesterday I took her to an exotic andimal vet. Her temp was normal at 105 and we drew blood and found that her calcium was at 13 which apparantly is normal for a cx which is not laying.
She has movement in her legs, one is turned in slightly. She scoots around a bit with her wings and beek to steady her. I fear she has some kind of internal injury.? Maybe something neurological?
The vet has no idea and has called Georgia Vet etc, and has gotten no help. We did give her 3 CC of calcium yesterday, and she seems to possibly be moving around a bit more, but not even close to getting up. I'm going to pick up a few syringes of Calcium to adminster IM myself tomorrow. Does ANYONE have any ideas or exp. with this?? Please help!! I'm desperate.
I checked the BYC site, and suspected she was egg bound so soaked her in a warm soapy bath. After several hours she laid an egg w/out a shell. I figured this was over- and she would get up. 18 days now... in the last week, her stools are totally normal and she is alert and eating and drinking. I have been giving her a tums daily crushed in something delicious and recently added a vitamin C. She is on laying mash.
Finally. yesterday I took her to an exotic andimal vet. Her temp was normal at 105 and we drew blood and found that her calcium was at 13 which apparantly is normal for a cx which is not laying.
She has movement in her legs, one is turned in slightly. She scoots around a bit with her wings and beek to steady her. I fear she has some kind of internal injury.? Maybe something neurological?
The vet has no idea and has called Georgia Vet etc, and has gotten no help. We did give her 3 CC of calcium yesterday, and she seems to possibly be moving around a bit more, but not even close to getting up. I'm going to pick up a few syringes of Calcium to adminster IM myself tomorrow. Does ANYONE have any ideas or exp. with this?? Please help!! I'm desperate.