UPDATE: two year old chicken off balance, couldn't lift head 4/20

[elias002]

Thought some of you would be interested to know that I followed the resource link on this sight, and the state paid to have a necropsy done on my chicken. The report was that she had a benign cyst that "became progressively larger until it compressed a
portion of the brain to cause neurological signs."

It was a very good reassurance that my other chicken should be fine, and I can get new birds without worrying. I highly recommend checking with your state agency to get a necropsy done if you can.

 

[Renee]

Thanks for reporting this to all of us. We often wonder what we could have done to save a chicken, and really, there was nothing that could have been done, short of brain surgery!