Scaly Mites or from lameness?

[NorthIdahoCoop]

I found blood in a couple of the girls stool about a week ago and treated them with Corid. Shortly after that, one of them started wobbling and losing balance. I thought it might have been from vitamin deficiency due to the treatment so boosted their water with probiotics and electrolytes. I also offer free range herbs such as oregano, garlic, parsley. It has now been a couple of days and she seems to be getting worse constantly falling over, although her eating and drinking habits are normal. Now I noticed her legs seem a little rough. Not sure if its due to lameness or maybe mites? All the other ladies perfectly fine.
Also our land right now is basically moon dust so there is quite a lot of dirt powder flying around.

 

[ChickyCh00k]

Corid blocks the uptake of thiamine aka vitamin B1, so supplementing with probiotics and electrolytes won't fix a vitamin deficiency caused by Corid treatment (you would need to give B vitamins post-treatment). I don't know if that's what's happening (hopefully someone else can advise on that), but I just thought you might want to know that info. I hope your girl gets better!

 

[NorthIdahoCoop]

Well shucks, that may be why then. I do have some b-complex pills so I'll crush that up and try to feed it to her and see if that truly does the trick. Thanks for responding.

 

[ChickyCh00k]

Well shucks, that may be why then. I do have some b-complex pills so I'll crush that up and try to feed it to her and see if that truly does the trick. Thanks for responding.

I think you'll want to be sure it has thiamine (B1) as that's the specific vitamin that Corid blocks.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I found blood in a couple of the girls stool about a week ago and treated them with Corid. Shortly after that, one of them started wobbling and losing balance. I thought it might have been from vitamin deficiency due to the treatment so boosted their water with probiotics and electrolytes. I also offer free range herbs such as oregano, garlic, parsley. It has now been a couple of days and she seems to be getting worse constantly falling over, although her eating and drinking habits are normal. Now I noticed her legs seem a little rough. Not sure if its due to lameness or maybe mites? All the other ladies perfectly fine.
Also our land right now is basically moon dust so there is quite a lot of dirt powder flying around.

Can you get a video of her walking - upload video to Youtube and provide a link.

How old is she?
What do you feed including treats?
Photos of current poop?

Generally, a week's treatment of Corid should not really cause any type of deficiency, but anything's possible.
Give her 1/4 tablet B-Complex and 400IU Vitamin E daily for a week. Give a treat of egg to help with the uptake of E.

 

[NorthIdahoCoop]

Ok, I'll try to get a video this afternoon.
She is 13 weeks, speckled sussex, normal poop. I'll take a poop pic later as well when I clean the coop. I do have treats but it's not much nor everyday. I let the kids give mealworms maybe once a week and just enough to hand feed and once or twice a week a handful of 6grain scratch just to get them to other areas of the property. I gave her some b-complex yesterday so today I'll add in the E as well.

 

[NorthIdahoCoop]

Well, I must say she is doing better today after a dose of b complex yesterday. Below is the link to the video. Starts off with her just having fell over but didn't have my phone out fast enough. She walks slowly, sometimes falls over, then will army type crawl on her hocks. She also will take several breaks to lay on her hocks to peck and what not. This is actually an improvement from the last two days where she would fall over and panic and flap her wings like crazy to get back in an upright position. Also attached fresh poop pic after I gave her some scrambled egg she gobbled up.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Poop looks o.k. to me.

I'd definitely continue with the B-Complex and Vitamin E, see if those help.

The treats don't sound unreasonable to me, see that she's eating her chick starter really well and not being kept from food. Sometimes chicks can be hoggish or even bullying at times. If you she's not getting to the feeder easily or being bounced about, then add another feed station (or more) and see how that goes.