Rye neck, Marek’s, other?

[TT4059]

I have a tiny flock. 2 birds I raised from an egg and 2 more birds I bought at 6 weeks old now, 22 weeks old, and they were shipped to me. I feed them so well, but one of my birds (one that I ordered from the website) is sick. I know this chicken was eating well because I give them alot of healthy food and saw her eat. One thing I’m not sure about is if she was drinking water or not. I never really saw her drink it alot. She used to drink out of the chick waterer I had in the coop in spring, but in winter I use one big waterer only and also when below 32F a heated dog bowl. If she didn’t drink it’s because she was afraid too maybe because she is bottom of the pecking order? But it puzzles me because my other 2 hens are sweet n don’t pick on her at all or ever. I can only think maybe my one rooster scared her. She is afraid of him, I see that.
Anyway, here are some pictures. Could this happen from lack of her drinking water (by her choice because I give them plenty) because she was scared of my roo?
Or do you think she had Marek’s fromthe place she was at the 6 weeks before ai owned her? She was picked on at that place and cane to me with missing tail feathers which grew back in nicely. My rooster my frighten he but he doesn’t peck or harm her in anyway. She always seemed super scaredy cat since she came here and was just beginning to warm up to me. :/
She started looking this way yesterday morning. Im giving her vitamin E and a vitamin/electrolyte water mix by syringe.

 

[Eggcessive]

Sorry about your mille fleur d’uccle. They are sweet birds and usually lower in pecking order. The way her leg looks in the first picture looks a bit like Mareks, but it would need to be confirmed with testing. That can be done with a home test from RAL, but is more often done after death when the state vet could perform a necropsy. You might want to use a chicken sling chair which you can make at home, to get her upright and close to food and water. She may enjoy some visits from the other other chickens, but I would keep the rooster away if she is frightened. I would give her 400 IU of human vitamin E orally, and keep giving her a chick vitamin supplement that has thiamine, or 1/4 tablet daily of B complex. Here is a link with 4 pages of chicken sling designs, and the design is in post 11:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/

 

[TT4059]

Sorry about your mille fleur d’uccle. They are sweet birds and usually lower in pecking order. The way her leg looks in the first picture looks a bit like Mareks, but it would need to be confirmed with testing. That can be done with a home test from RAL, but is more often done after death when the state vet could perform a necropsy. You might want to use a chicken sling chair which you can make at home, to get her upright and close to food and water. She may enjoy some visits from the other other chickens, but I would keep the rooster away if she is frightened. I would give her 400 IU of human vitamin E orally, and keep giving her a chick vitamin supplement that has thiamine, or 1/4 tablet daily of B complex. Here is a link with 4 pages of chicken sling designs, and the design is in post 11:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/

Thank you. I’m giving her the vitamin E and the vitamins… she is not enjoying it but doesn’t put up a fight other than closing her beak. The sling idea is great! Thank you! I will try to make one for her. Do you know if I should see improvement soon? I know Marek’s is not curable.

Sorry about your mille fleur d’uccle. They are sweet birds and usually lower in pecking order. The way her leg looks in the first picture looks a bit like Mareks, but it would need to be confirmed with testing. That can be done with a home test from RAL, but is more often done after death when the state vet could perform a necropsy. You might want to use a chicken sling chair which you can make at home, to get her upright and close to food and water. She may enjoy some visits from the other other chickens, but I would keep the rooster away if she is frightened. I would give her 400 IU of human vitamin E orally, and keep giving her a chick vitamin supplement that has thiamine, or 1/4 tablet daily of B complex. Here is a link with 4 pages of chicken sling designs, and the design is in post 11:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/

sitting here reading my chicken feed bag and I think I messed up their food big time. I looked at the feeding guidelines on the back and thought I should be feeding 6 grain & flaxseed scratch to teen birds. But part of it reads it should not be more that 10% of their diet I have been feeding them this for a month. Along with fruits, veggies, scraps etc. attached a picture. Now I see I should have fed them this along with “layer mini pellet” or something 100% complete. Could she have a vitamin deficiency?
I have a bag of “layer crumbles” (also pictured) I was keeping for when they started laying but I put that in my coop now and placed some in with my mille fleur d’uccle but she is not eating. She does take in the vitamin water Ive been giving her with the syringe though.
I feel really bad about this.

 

[Kiki]

Thank you. I’m giving her the vitamin E and the vitamins… she is not enjoying it but doesn’t put up a fight other than closing her beak. The sling idea is great! Thank you! I will try to make one for her. Do you know if I should see improvement soon? I know Marek’s is not curable.

sitting here reading my chicken feed bag and I think I messed up their food big time. I looked at the feeding guidelines on the back and thought I should be feeding 6 grain & flaxseed scratch to teen birds. But part of it reads it should not be more that 10% of their diet I have been feeding them this for a month. Along with fruits, veggies, scraps etc. attached a picture. Now I see I should have fed them this along with “layer mini pellet” or something 100% complete. Could she have a vitamin deficiency?
I have a bag of “layer crumbles” (also pictured) I was keeping for when they started laying but I put that in my coop now and placed some in with my mille fleur d’uccle but she is not eating. She does take in the vitamin water Ive been giving her with the syringe though.
I feel really bad about this.

I'm jumping in real quick to say that the sixth grain scratch stuff is junk.
I highly recommend not feeding that and or all of the treats and scraps.
It is extremely possible if you fed just that and too much treats and scraps the bird is suffering from a vitamin deficiency. If it is a vitamin deficiency you will see improvement quickly.

 

[TT4059]

I'm jumping in real quick to say that the sixth grain scratch stuff is junk.
I highly recommend not feeding that and or all of the treats and scraps.
It is extremely possible if you fed just that and too much treats and scraps the bird is suffering from a vitamin deficiency. If it is a vitamin deficiency you will see improvement quickly.

Thanks.what do you recommend for 22 week old and 28 weeks old chickens? I see no improvement with her leg but she did just start eating. Yesterday she did not eat. I have a bag of layer feed I just started feeding them all. Pictured.
So she was eating that new layer feed but her leg keeps shaking still and the leg has not improved yet.

 

[Kiki]

Thanks.what do you recommend for 22 week old and 28 weeks old chickens? I see no improvement with her leg but she did just start eating. Yesterday she did not eat. I have a bag of layer feed I just started feeding them all. Pictured.
So she was eating that new layer feed but her leg keeps shaking still and the leg has not improved yet.
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The layer feed is better than what she was eating.
Were you able to get any poultry vitamins into her?

 

[TT4059]

The layer feed is better than what she was eating.
Were you able to get any poultry vitamins into her?

Yes, I give her 5ml of water mixed with this 2x a day for yesterday and today, and I gave her vitamin E mixed with water. She takes it by syringe.

 

[TT4059]

The layer feed is better than what she was eating.
Were you able to get any poultry vitamins into her?

Do you recommend any type of feed? 22 and 28 weeks are my chickens ages.

 

[Kiki]

Do you recommend any type of feed? 22 and 28 weeks are my chickens ages.

Are they laying eggs?

 

[TT4059]

Are they laying eggs?

Not yet.

• 1 Silkie hen (22 wks) 1 Silkie roo (28wks)
• Lafleche/black mottled d’uccle cross hen (28 wks)
• Mille fleur d’Uccle Bantam hen (22wks)