- May 13, 2019
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Hi everyone!!
About a month ago we lost my favorite rooster. He was a B.B red old english game bantam and approximately 5 years old. A few weeks prior he had sort of taken a step down from his leader role. He was not acting like himself and was often one of the last ones to go in at night (which wasn't normal for him). After a few days of just not acting like himself he began limping. I inspected him carefully and assumed he just injured his leg. I separated him and checked on him daily. Shortly after separating him, a hen (a silver sebright approximately 3 years old) also began limping and unable to use one of her legs. At this time I thought that the new members of the flock were injuring them. I separated her and placed her in with the rooster. After a few days the rooster progressively got worse. I only tried a couple of different things such as nutri-drench and adding apple cider vinegar to water. Some days they would eat and other days they wouldn't. After about 2-3 weeks of the rooster being sick he sadly died overnight. The next night the hen also died.
Since this happened everyone else has been fine. None of my other chickens have shown any signs of being sick, except for a gold sebright hen that was purchased at the same time as the silver sebright. Shortly after we lost the other two she became withdrawn from the flock. At first I thought that she may just be depressed. She began sleeping in the nesting boxes at night and would mostly just hide under the coop during the day. Last week I really began to see other signs of illness. She seems to be very unbalanced and is having greenish watery poop. My biggest concern now is Marek's disease, which I know that I can't really diagnose without testing. Are there other things that I should try to treat just to rule out other problems?
About a month ago we lost my favorite rooster. He was a B.B red old english game bantam and approximately 5 years old. A few weeks prior he had sort of taken a step down from his leader role. He was not acting like himself and was often one of the last ones to go in at night (which wasn't normal for him). After a few days of just not acting like himself he began limping. I inspected him carefully and assumed he just injured his leg. I separated him and checked on him daily. Shortly after separating him, a hen (a silver sebright approximately 3 years old) also began limping and unable to use one of her legs. At this time I thought that the new members of the flock were injuring them. I separated her and placed her in with the rooster. After a few days the rooster progressively got worse. I only tried a couple of different things such as nutri-drench and adding apple cider vinegar to water. Some days they would eat and other days they wouldn't. After about 2-3 weeks of the rooster being sick he sadly died overnight. The next night the hen also died.
Since this happened everyone else has been fine. None of my other chickens have shown any signs of being sick, except for a gold sebright hen that was purchased at the same time as the silver sebright. Shortly after we lost the other two she became withdrawn from the flock. At first I thought that she may just be depressed. She began sleeping in the nesting boxes at night and would mostly just hide under the coop during the day. Last week I really began to see other signs of illness. She seems to be very unbalanced and is having greenish watery poop. My biggest concern now is Marek's disease, which I know that I can't really diagnose without testing. Are there other things that I should try to treat just to rule out other problems?
