Shaking Chick!! {Happy Updates!! pg. 5}[Pics on pg.6]

[Wolf-Kim]

I wasn't criticizing your advice! I was only asking, I'm sorry. I'm just a little frantic right now. I am thinking it may be neurological, my father thinks so as well.

I'll wait to see what other people think. I don't know how long it has been doing this. I refill the waterer every morning and night.

I guess I just want to make sure it is a defect in this one individual and not a contagious disease or something. I hate it, the chick seems otherwise fine. Except for the frantic turning and circles and diving for corners and the cover of other chicks.

I am sorry if I came off rude or criticizing, I'm trying to stop being frantic/panicky myself. Give me a few more minutes and I'll be back to my calm worried self.

-Kim

 

[redhen]

i wish i could help...i'm sorry..but..i'll try to get you to the top of the page..good luck..Wendy

 

[seminolewind]

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I know you are not rude, and neither am I , I am being just frantic like you. I feel really bad.

 

[ruth]

It could be suffering from a vitamin deficiency/malabsorption issue. Buy some Poly-Vi-Sol - it's a liquid baby vitamin/supplement sold just about anywhere baby stuff is sold. Put two or three drops on side of beak till it swallows it. Give it a small dish of water and add several drops to the water. Also feed it some scrambled egg. If it's a vitamin deficiency you may see results in about a day but keep it up for about two weeks or it could come back on it. Make sure the chick is eating and drinking. Try wetting the crumbles to help it eat easier.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

As for poisoning. The chicks have tap water in a mason jar plastic bottom waterer. The have regular TSC chick starter in a tupperware container. There bedding is the wood shavings you buy at Walmart(Not the cedar). I think they are pine shavings.

That's all that is in there brooder, granted the fews bugs that get in. The brooder has a glass top, so nothing could have fallen/dripped in.

There light was in there with them, but with all the heat we've been having I had to remove it to avoid cooking the little ones.

-Kim

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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I'll give that a try. I have vitamin and electrolyte powder for their water. Would that work as well?

-Kim

 

[seminolewind]

I know you're not criticizing me, and I really didn't think you were doing anything like being rude. I know you are very upset, that's why I am here, and I'm hoping someone will know something and jump in.
I'm not sure she's contagious-sick since you hatched the eggs. No one to catch anything from.

 

[seminolewind]

Yea, I think your supplement is fine. Maybe you could measure the water to make sure she's drinking? I agree with Ruth on the dropper thing, cause if you find that the chick isn't drinking, she won't be getting the vits and lytes.

 

[Redfeathers]

I have a chicken that did that same behavior, but she was a few weeks older when she started. I bought her from a local gentleman that is very reputable...anyway, around 8 weeks of age, she started to vibrate and her head would shake, I didn't know what it was but figured it was neurological. She continued this behavior for several more weeks but was able to perch, feed herself and free range just fine, she was just always shaking and would walk in circles sometimes. After about two months of this I noticed the shaking had stopped but she is mostly blind. I have to hand feed her twice a day, she can eat grass, loves to dust bathe and can find water and drink, but she can't eat correctly. I've posted pictures of her on here. She laid eggs for about two months, then recently stopped about three weeks ago. Last week she had a major seizure, I thought she was a goner and I cried my head off because I'm so bonded with this silly blind chicken, I carry her around everywhere when I'm outside and she snuggles down for a nap when I'm holding her. The seizure didn't kill her, she's back to her "normal" self but is getting really thin.

Childrens liquid vitamins in her water really helped her a lot..even this last time it picked her right back up and got her going again. I still don't know if it really is neurological or if it's a brain tumor or what, but I intend to enjoy her for as long as her little body stays with me. If she is suffering at all I plan to end her life quickly and bury her in my garden...but til then..she's my buddy. Here is a pic of her.

Give your chick a chance if you are willing to possibly deal with health issues like this. It's a tough decision. Sorry you are going through this.

 

[ruth]

The Poly-Vi-Sol would be better than electrolytes because it has all the vitamins that are involved in vitamin deficiency and thus replaces them. You can also try cutting the top off of a vitamin E capsule and squeezing out the goo and letting it eat that. Vitamin E deficiency can cause symptoms similar to what you are describing. The combo of Poly-Vi-Sol and Vit. E works well together.