Seizure in serama cockerel/rooster

[fluffanfeathers]

I am UK based and have a pure silkied serama cockerel I purchased as a hen last year at 5 months old 4 weeks after ownership he started crowing…. I have had seramas a few years now and any I have normally hatched I can tell they are a boy by 6 weeks old so this little man must have been a very late developer.
Anyhow after owning him for about 2 months he had a seizure then another one a few weeks later… vets said that there is not much they can really do with him being a chicken and so tiny… so after he had 2 seizures in one week I tried him with some cbd he seemed okay for a few weeks then had another seizure so took to researching the internet and found DMG so we trialed this for a week twice a day and no seizures so went to once a day and he was seizure free for 3 months then he had another one, the only thing different was his hen he sleeps with was broody and never slept with him for 2 days when he had the seizure she went back to sleeping with him again. I upped the DMG again to twice a day, but this morning he had another seizure these 2 were a week apart.
Otherwise he is healthy gets all his right vitamins etc…. He acts as he should with his girls.. but I know we are living on borrowed time as they take their toll on him, strangely enough he only seems to have the Seizures when I am there I pick him up and cuddle him through them I see no evidence that he has them at other times I do have a camera in the coop too which I monitor…
Sorry for the essay…
My question is what else can I do to help him? Can anyone suggest what else I could try?

 

[Debbie292d]

Hi, and sorry about your little rooster!

Sorry also nobody has answered, but seizures are not a common thing.

I would be tempted to try Vit E, a whole one of the human type, and give him a little scrambled eggs for the selenium that helps the E absorb. That's usually helpful for neurological problems and possibly might help.

I'd also put Poultry Cell or some other liquid vitamin in their water every other day for a couple of weeks.

The vitamin support might help if there's anything he's lacking.

I sure hope he overcomes the seizures. It's hard to know if he'd had a head injury prior to you purchasing him, or it could be something genetic. They can also come from toxins, but then more than likely he wouldn't be the only one having issues.

 

[fluffanfeathers]

Hi, and sorry about your little rooster!

Sorry also nobody has answered, but seizures are not a common thing.

I would be tempted to try Vit E, a whole one of the human type, and give him a little scrambled eggs for the selenium that helps the E absorb. That's usually helpful for neurological problems and possibly might help.

I'd also put Poultry Cell or some other liquid vitamin in their water every other day for a couple of weeks.

The vitamin support might help if there's anything he's lacking.

I sure hope he overcomes the seizures. It's hard to know if he'd had a head injury prior to you purchasing him, or it could be something genetic. They can also come from toxins, but then more than likely he wouldn't be the only one having issues.

Hi thank you for you reply

Hi, and sorry about your little rooster!

Sorry also nobody has answered, but seizures are not a common thing.

I would be tempted to try Vit E, a whole one of the human type, and give him a little scrambled eggs for the selenium that helps the E absorb. That's usually helpful for neurological problems and possibly might help.

I'd also put Poultry Cell or some other liquid vitamin in their water every other day for a couple of weeks.

The vitamin support might help if there's anything he's lacking.

I sure hope he overcomes the seizures. It's hard to know if he'd had a head injury prior to you purchasing him, or it could be something genetic. They can also come from toxins, but then more than likely he wouldn't be the only one having issues.

Hi thank you for your reply
They all have vitamins etc… regular probiotics and I also feed along with their normal chicken feeds crushed hemp seed for Selenium and vitamin E it’s not from lacking vitamins.
We haven’t found a trigger so think it’s just random as he can go months without any then have a seizure or 2 in a week…
I have been giving him DMG drops twice a day which seem to help the frequency I guess I have to just keep going as I am.. thanks again

 

[Danielcgx]

Hi, I have a Silkie Serama with the same symptoms. Did you find out anything? How's your rooster doing?

 

[fluffanfeathers]

Hi, I have a Silkie Serama with the same symptoms. Did you find out anything? How's your rooster doing?

Hi I am very sorry I have only just seen your reply!
I saw a post from a lady who has a serama who has seizures also on a different forum she suggested children’s liquid Benadryl so I have stopped the DMG as feel this wasn’t really helping… and he didn’t have a seizure for nearly 7 months but had a small one on Saturday evening when was putting them to bed… anyhow the Benadryl seems to 100% help and for his size he has 0.2ml the tiny syringes hope this helps…