Thiamine

[casportpony]

http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/thiamin-deficiency

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

So does the use of a medicated feed lead to deficiencies? I haven't seen it in my flock, so I'm curious why it happens. Just bad feed?

 

[Chris2018]

@oldhenlikesdogs if feed correctly it's highly unlikely that feeding a medicated feed will cause a deficiency of thiamin.

 

[casportpony]

So does the use of a medicated feed lead to deficiencies? I haven't seen it in my flock, so I'm curious why it happens. Just bad feed?

I've read that large doses of amprolium for longer than two weeks can cause a thiamine deficiency, but I have not seen anything on medicated feed causing it.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I personally never use medicated feed, nor ever saw one with star gazing, so I guess I was wondering why it happens at all? I don't read about it as much I used to so maybe it did have something to do with feed? Or maybe deficiencies in the parents? Clearly I'm clueless.

 

[casportpony]

I started this thread because I had a chick hatch out yesterday that I came *very* close to euthanizing. Little thing, maybe 30 grams and it looked worse than this:

and it kept flipping onto it's back like this:

The link I posted in post #1 says this:

So I threw the Hail Mary pass and gave the chick an injection of B complex. And would you believe that in less than an hour the chick was looking normal?

This was a first for me and I have no idea why this happened, but maybe the hen that laid this egg didn't get enough thiamine? Anyway, in hindsight, I really wish I had taken pictures of it before the injection.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

That is pretty amazing.

 

[casportpony]

That is pretty amazing.

yeah, right?

 

[True Patriot]

I started this thread because I had a chick hatch out yesterday that I came *very* close to euthanizing. Little thing, maybe 30 grams and it looked worse than this:
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and it kept flipping onto it's back like this:
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The link I posted in post #1 says this:
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So I threw the Hail Mary pass and gave the chick an injection of B complex. And would you believe that in less than an hour the chick was looking normal?

This was a first for me and I have no idea why this happened, but maybe the hen that laid this egg didn't get enough thiamine? Anyway, in hindsight, I really wish I had taken pictures of it before the injection.

I read that post about the injection. So glad to hear it helped

 

[casportpony]

I read that post about the injection. So glad to hear it helped

Thanks! My DH looked at me like I was nuts when I got the bottle out and told him what I was going to do. I still can't believe it made a difference.