Rooster can't walk. Help

[springchick20]

I have a silkie rooster that has not been able to walk for three days now. He is alert and will drink but does not eat much. He won't touch his feed, yesterday he would only eat rasins and plums and today he won't touch anything I give him.

He also has green diareah. He tries to walk and move but he can't so he ends up doing a frontward roll or flapping around in a circle with his wings.

Anyone else experience this? I just don't know what to do. It is so sad to see.

 

[Eggcessive]

How old is he? Did he have a Mareks vaccine as a new chick? Mareks disease could be a possible cause, but it may be something else depending on his age and more information. Encephalomalacia, and some vitamin deficiencies can cause similar symptoms in young chicks. Poultry viamins could help. Try giving him finely chopped scrambled eggs and a small amount of bread dipped in buttermilk to tempt him to eat.
http://extension.unh.edu/resources/files/Resource000791_Rep813.pdf
http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/search/disease/502
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq

 

[springchick20]

He is probably 8 or 9 months old. His crop is still really full from yesterday where he ate a lot of raisins and corn and he also got tube fed once aswell. I have no idea if he was given any shots as a chick because I have had him a little less than a month now.

I really hope it's not mereks.

 

[springchick20]

I finally was able to sit down at my computer and read the links you shared with me. i apprecaite that so much. I was looking on the vet site where they showed pictures. and the only thing is that his legs are not out strait like that.. and when i pick him up he does contract them and move them a little but he is so weak he has no control over them. The whole thing is just so weird and heart breaking. Im at a loss of what to do for him.

 

[Fancychooklady]

This may even be a vitamin B 1 deficiency ( thiamine ) . The muscle atrophy starts in the legs and generally makes it's way to the neck . I would suggest a good water soluable vitamin powder.
Keep an eye on that crop also , if it isn't emptying over night he may have impacted crop.

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

http://www.jefferspet.com/avian-super-pack/camid/LIV/cp/AB-P1/cn/36030/

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/216/vitamin-bi-deficiency

 

[Fancychooklady]

Is there any possibility that he may have eaten some rancid food ? Botulism causes paralyses too.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

 

[springchick20]

It is possible he got into something that my dog may have dragged out of the compost pile and left somewhere in the yard. The only thing is that for the past four days his paralysis has only been apparent in his legs.

I have been feeding with the eye dropper some vitamins that a friend gave me that she uses with her birds. Hopefully those will help

 

[Fancychooklady]

There are a few toxins that can affect them in this way. Check the vitamins you are giving cover Niacin and thiamine if his symptoms worsen you may need to give him an Epsom salt ( magnesium sulphate ) flush.

http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/poultry/poisonings/overview_of_poisonings_in_poultry.html

 

[springchick20]

He just passed away this morning. Thank you everyone.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Sorry.