We once had something similar happen to us.
We had a bantam bearded silkie rooster who was the sweetest thing. One day I went out and saw him laying on his side with his neck all twisted. I thought he was dead, but he wasn’t. We brought him in and held him for a while. Within an hour he was acting fine again. I thought maybe it was a seizure or something since silkies tend to have neurological issues. But he had another one of these episodes shortly after. His neck would curl up and he would lay on his side panting. He wasn’t getting better so we were able to get the state agricultural vet. His first thought was Mareks as well. He took some blood samples and swabbed him.
These were the most stressful days of my life, he meant so much to me and it hurt me to see him like this. I was up all hours of the night making sure he was secure so he couldn’t hurt himself while he had his convulsions. The results came back and he didn’t have mareks or any parasites ect.
He would act better and sort of wobble around, but you could tell he still wasn’t right, and then he would have another episode, each one lasting longer than the other. We came to a conclusion that this was no way to live.
The state vet recommended dislocating his neck but we couldn’t do that even after him offering to do it himself. We had him euthanized and the vet took him directly to cornel for a necropsy.
The result was that his first kidney was almost non existent, since it was so small, they believe he was born this way. His other kidney wasn’t working correctly, so the conclusion that they came to was that since his kidneys weren’t filtering out all the toxins in his body, the toxins just kept building up causing him to have these episodes and issues.
It felt better to know that it wasn’t my fault and that it was nothing contagious. But I still think if I could have 3 wishes, one of them would have been to cure him. He’s missed dearly, it’s not the same without him.
I know that your bird most likely didn’t have the same issue, but I thought I would share a similar experience that we had. I really hope he gets better and it’s nothing serious
We had a bantam bearded silkie rooster who was the sweetest thing. One day I went out and saw him laying on his side with his neck all twisted. I thought he was dead, but he wasn’t. We brought him in and held him for a while. Within an hour he was acting fine again. I thought maybe it was a seizure or something since silkies tend to have neurological issues. But he had another one of these episodes shortly after. His neck would curl up and he would lay on his side panting. He wasn’t getting better so we were able to get the state agricultural vet. His first thought was Mareks as well. He took some blood samples and swabbed him.
These were the most stressful days of my life, he meant so much to me and it hurt me to see him like this. I was up all hours of the night making sure he was secure so he couldn’t hurt himself while he had his convulsions. The results came back and he didn’t have mareks or any parasites ect.
He would act better and sort of wobble around, but you could tell he still wasn’t right, and then he would have another episode, each one lasting longer than the other. We came to a conclusion that this was no way to live.
The state vet recommended dislocating his neck but we couldn’t do that even after him offering to do it himself. We had him euthanized and the vet took him directly to cornel for a necropsy.
The result was that his first kidney was almost non existent, since it was so small, they believe he was born this way. His other kidney wasn’t working correctly, so the conclusion that they came to was that since his kidneys weren’t filtering out all the toxins in his body, the toxins just kept building up causing him to have these episodes and issues.
It felt better to know that it wasn’t my fault and that it was nothing contagious. But I still think if I could have 3 wishes, one of them would have been to cure him. He’s missed dearly, it’s not the same without him.
I know that your bird most likely didn’t have the same issue, but I thought I would share a similar experience that we had. I really hope he gets better and it’s nothing serious
