Two week Brahma chick cannot stand up

[Cheepers Peepers]

Do you have any multi vitamins like Nutri-Drench or Piutry cell? Try to encourage it to drink water.

Rooster Booster Poultry Cell

• Kiki
• Jan 23, 2019

Nutri-Drench

• Kiki
• Aug 27, 2018

Chick is eating and drinking. I followed Cyprus's idea and processed carrots in the blender and she ate some. Has been three days now, she is not any worse or better. I will go to town tomorrow and get some chick vitamins and see if that helps. I do appreciate everyone's advice and help.

 

[Kiki]

Chick is eating and drinking. I followed Cyprus's idea and processed carrots in the blender and she ate some. Has been three days now, she is not any worse or better. I will go to town tomorrow and get some chick vitamins and see if that helps. I do appreciate everyone's advice and help.

Hopefully the vitamins will help her.
Good luck.

 

[Cyprus]

I've got two more possible diagnoses.
Marek's or a Choline deficiency.

Giving her egg yolk would get extra choline into her.

 

[Cheepers Peepers]

I've got two more possible diagnoses.
Marek's or a Choline deficiency.

Giving her egg yolk would get extra choline into her.

I have not heard of either of those. i will do some research into them at the library today. I did go ahead and put an egg yoke in for her this morning.

 

[aart]

I have not heard of either of those. i will do some research into them at the library today. I did go ahead and put an egg yoke in for her this morning.

Mareks is pretty common and devastating.
Never heard of a choline deficiency either.

 

[Cyprus]

Mareks is pretty common and devastating.
Never heard of a choline deficiency either.

Choline deficiency in piglets will lead to spraddle leg, which is why it came to mind for me here.

Choline is an essential nutrient naturally present in some foods. It is important for maintaining cell membranes and thus cell integrity. Choline is responsible for muscle, metabolic and nervous system function.

In poultry, a deficiency is most commonly seen in young, growing chicks. Chicks above 8 wks of age can usually produce enough choline on their own. Clinical signs are stunted growth and perosis, leading to slipped tendons.

 

[Eggcessive]

A 2 week old chick should not have symptoms of Mareks disease, a virus that can show up in chickens 3 weeks to 25 weeks and older. An injury or leg bone deformity might be a possibility. Slipped tendon can affect one leg and the hock joint might be red. Chicks can be defiencient in B2 or riboflavin. Get a chick vitamin with riboflavin—Poultry NutriDrench does not have it—or use human vitamin B complex 1/4 tablet daily crushed and sprinkled on food.

Pictures of the chick standing or being held up from the front or back might show if it is a leg bone deformity. Look for redness, swelling, or bruising of the leg or hock joint.

 

[aart]

Get a chick vitamin with riboflavin—Poultry NutriDrench does not have it—or use human vitamin B complex 1/4 tablet daily crushed and sprinkled on food.

Ahah!! That was niggling in the back of my brain.
@Eggcessive Is there a better 'all in one vitamin',
or better to use ND and add the B complex?

 

[Kiki]

This is a great product.

Rooster Booster Poultry Cell

• Kiki
• Jan 23, 2019

I'll take a picture of the back of my bottle ASAP but for now pulled from the internet:

 

[Cheepers Peepers]

Ahah!! That was niggling in the back of my brain.
Is there a better all in one vitamin, or better to use ND and add the B complex?

I have not heard of either of those. i will do some research into them at the library today. I did go ahead and put an egg yoke in for her this morning.

Bless her little peeper heart. She got into the yoke today while I was at work and now has it all over her. Will it hurt to put her warm water? I have never given a chicken a bath before.