Potential Vitamin b deficiency in silkie with no improvement

[Polishchickensupremacy]

I have a silkie that’s around, 7 months. I got her when she was 12 weeks with no issues at all. But a month or so ago she started limping suddenly and the next day she couldn’t walk.

I took her to the vets and they gave her some metacam. After she was walking perfectly within a week.

But unfortunately a week or so later she was back to not walking, so I
Brought her inside and gave her the metacam again and she was walking perfectly again.

But after another a week again(about a month ago) she regressed back to only sitting on hocks and having a leg splayed outwards.

She eats and drinks fine and as it’s been abut 2 months since onset I doubt it’s Mareks.

She reverses on her hocks and can put some weight on one leg but never stands (only lift one leg in the site and leans on the other). I have made a wheel chair for her but she lifts them up and only rests her hocks on the ground with one of her legs is still splayed. Her toes do not appear to be curled as well.

I have been giving her but I’m b complex for maybe 2 weeks now with vitamin e in egg and there isn’t any improvement. She’s alert and normal behaviour just cannot walk or stand.

Any advice? Really love her and happy to make her a separate coop outside if she never fully recovers (at least walking a bit better) but I don’t want to keep her alive in pain.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Debbie292d]

1/2 B-Complex per day, one whole Vit E around 400IU and a little scrambled eggs is what we give our silkies who have exhibited possible vitamin deficiencies. It sounds like this is what you've been doing? I can only suggest you keep going with that for a couple of more weeks as she should be showing improvement.

Just in case: She should not be on layer feed unless she's laying. I say this because too much calcium I've experienced in chicks who lost the use of their legs. We have all of our chicks and chickens on Kalmbach's Flock Maker, and then the hens get oyster shell in a separate container.