Silkie off it’s leg/s

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

Oh the poor boy! Can you put him in a little area or cage so he doesn't have to walk anywhere? With food and water beside him. And isolate in case it's a disease that's contagious...
Others on here should be able to help you out with this one I'm not an expert. Wish you best of luck with him though he is gorgeous! I'll be watching this thread so I can hear how he goes.

 

[chkncrazy]

It's very weird check if maybe he broke has helped a pie maybe he fell while roosting or something like that if you keep it up much longer maybe you can hold the leg up and wrap something around its body while it heals if you care about it that much or send it to freezer camp

 

[Love my chickens 25]

The pictures I have won’t help I have a video but as this is my first post and just signed up. Not sure how to put a video on here

Poor thing, and are you sure that’s a hen? I hope he gets better soon I’m no help with this stuff.

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

How's it going with him? Have you got him in a comfy place he can rest on his own with food and water?

 

[MrFluffyandGirls]

Nutrition is important and they should not be fed layer feed until they actually start laying. You should be feeding them grower or all flock. As far as the lameness the first thing that came to my mind was if they were vaccinated for Marek's Disease? Does his wings operate ok? I would defiantly social distance it in a cage with food and water to keep it safe and possibly it may give it achance to heal if its something mechanical happening.

 

[MrFluffyandGirls]

The pictures I have won’t help I have a video but as this is my first post and just signed up. Not sure how to put a video on here

Pretty sure her is he

 

[Chicalina]

that looks systemic rather than a leg injury to me. It won't be a calcium deficiency on layers pellets, if anything calcium overload though I don't know if that would cause this. Can you get to a vet?

 

[emilythestrange]

I think it’s mareks disease as the leg paralysis is there.... can I buy a vaccine in the uk? Is it worth vaccinating the rest of my flock?
i have been reading up on it and there’s no treatment or cure

the 5 chickens are my pets.... now I feel sad

 

[emilythestrange]

 

[emilythestrange]

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I’ve spent quite a bit of time researching Mareks today
It sounds like it

I don’t want to cull him, but it seems he is struggling to move much

obviously now all my male flock is contaminated. None have shown any symptoms up to now, and I bought these chickens in june

The first two chickens I bought were from an allotment style backyard breeder who didn’t have much luck raising chicks etc
Sold us “Two females “. One died about a month later. Found it under the bars in the coop. We thought it had gotten stuck and broke its neck.

the next four chickens were the silkies I got from a person who seemed the raise chickens for a living/ major side hobby. He had fighter chickens etc and hundred of chickens and a lot of chicks, I picked these as random and for different colours .. unlucky that turns out they are all males.

am I right to presume none of my chickens would have been vaccinated ... I never asked as I didn’t know about mareks then.

can I vaccinate them now. To make the possible symptoms less severe in the rest of the flock
What can I do now

what can I try to either try and possibly improve the symptoms of my affected chicken to elimate other diseases or slow down the progression