Recovery possible for chick with riboflavin deficiency?

[luvmychix2]

I have an 8 week chick that has what I believe to be a riboflavin deficiency. She started with the curled toes, then she began getting weaker, stopped growing, had feathers come in kind of weird, and now is unable to walk. I'm very new to this "chicken thing" so I thought she had Marek's. I started giving her hypericum but saw no difference. I then recently read about the vitamin B deficiency and she showed all the signs including the order they usually present themselves so I started giving her the save-a-chick supplement as well as any foods that are high in vitamin B. It's been about a week and no change. Has anyone been through this before? Did your chicken survive? I don't want to cull her if there's actually something I can do but I don't want her to suffer either. This has been going on for about a month. I have her in a sling I made so she isn't lying on her side but this obviously isn't much of a life.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

I had some chicks that I took from the feed store...no hope for them...they feed they had been given was deficient in Vit. B. They were very deformed..but I decided to try to help them any way. Long story short, after pumping them up with vitamin B they did pull through. Some were already too deformed to grow up and were sacrificed (necropsy) to learn what the problem was. I kept one that ended up growing up to a seeminly normal bird. You couldn't see or tell that she had ever been that deformed. I'd give it a go.

 

[luvmychix2]

Thank you. That's some encouraging news. How long was it before you started seeing some results?

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Thank you. That's some encouraging news. How long was it before you started seeing some results?

 

Within a few days I could see them getting stronger. The damage to some of their legs was in the bone formation so nothing could be done for those badly deformed. I rigged up something to keep their legs from splaying too far out. Like I said, the one ended up doing fine. The necropsy on the others showed that they had ricketts, which is Vit. B. deficiency.