!URGENT! Is This Poisoning in My Chickens?

[GlicksChicks]

If your polish passes keep her body cold (in the fridge) and call A&M to have a necropsy done. I hope it won't come to that! @Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock @dawg53 let's call some the experts

The other girl that passed is in the fridge also, we put her in there right after the necropsy. Thinking of taking some samples from her as well until the testing kits come.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

The Polish was noticeably acting off on the 17th of this month. She was quiet and just didn't care to eat or drink.

After bringing her inside she quickly went downhill and couldn't stand anymore. Her legs were not patalyzed, she just stopped knowing how to move them correctly.

She has been gasping and her eyes have been closed. Her eyes are also a little weepy.

Last night after administering some Corid, Vitamins, ACV, and Honey, she half stood, which is more than she has done since she went down.

she was wobbly on her feet when trying to get to the feed, but she could stand and walk. She walked herself into the coop from being outside.

I brought her in, she went downhill fast. She quickly became unable to use her feet and would just lay down.

bringing her inside she quickly went downhill

she was stiffened up.
(The hen stiffened up, mostly unresponsive but alive.)

I done a necropsy on her since it was so late. I found a white mass on her heart and the tube that feeds into the heart seemed closed up.

The liquid I have been giving her consists of this:
- Medicated chick feed (all I have chick feed-wise)
- Apple Cider Vinegar
- Polyvisol (Growth & Immune kind)
- Raw egg
- Water
- Honey

And the Corid cocktail is as follows:
- Corid
- Water
- Apple Cider Vinegar
- Honey

Do you by any chance have machinery sitting idle and leaking fluids onto the soil where these chickens are used to hanging out? The symptoms sound a lot like petroleum distillate poisoning. It also could be insecticide poisoning. Even if you treated some plants weeks ago, rain and watering can reactivate the poison if a chicken drinks from a puddle from the run-off.

I agree, it sounds like it could be some type of poison or even Botulism.
Marek's disease also comes to mind.

Check feed to make sure nothing is bad or moldy.

Corid is a Coccidiostat, it's not an antibiotic. If you are treating with Corid (Amprolium), do not give Extra vitamins/supplements that contain B1(Thiamine) since there can be a contraindication.

If you want to treat Neurological symptoms, use Vitamin therapy giving 400IU Vitamin E and 1/4 tablet B-Complex.

Hopefully you can send the body or tissue for more testing to get more information.

 

[GlicksChicks]

I agree, it sounds like it could be some type of poison or even Botulism.
Marek's disease also comes to mind.

Check feed to make sure nothing is bad or moldy.

Corid is a Coccidiostat, it's not an antibiotic. If you are treating with Corid (Amprolium), do not give Extra vitamins/supplements that contain B1(Thiamine) since there can be a contraindication.

If you want to treat Neurological symptoms, use Vitamin therapy giving 400IU Vitamin E and 1/4 tablet B-Complex.

Hopefully you can send the body or tissue for more testing to get more information.

Does Mareks kill a chicken as fast the mix hen died? I was suspicious of Mareks until I looked into how likely it is due to how fast she progressed, within an hour she was normal to dead.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Does Mareks kill a chicken as fast the mix hen died? I was suspicious of Mareks until I looked into how likely it is due to how fast she progressed, within an hour she was normal to dead.

Anything is possible. Having a necropsy through your state lab would be a good way to find out.

 

[GlicksChicks]

Anything is possible. Having a necropsy through your state lab would be a good way to find out.

I am waiting for test kits to arrive to take samples and then return them to a lab. Got an update today saying they are on their way.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Mareks causes paralysis or stiffening/seizing in wings, legs, neck. It also causes head tremors. It ALSO can cause tumors on internal organs. Also, weepy nostrils/eyes.
This is really sounding like Marek's to me.

 

[GlicksChicks]

Mareks causes paralysis or stiffening/seizing in wings, legs, neck. It also causes head tremors. It ALSO can cause tumors on internal organs. Also, weepy nostrils/eyes.
This is really sounding like Marek's to me.

Yeah, but so does alot of other sicknesses. Vitamin deficiencies, poisoning, etc.

And Mareks doesn't take only an hour after the first symptom shows to kill a bird.

And neither of their legs are/were paralyzed. They just don't/didn't know how to use them to walk, but they can move them. And the Polish has a slight grip in her feet.

Neither of them ever sat in the split pose you typically see in Mareks.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

I am waiting for test kits to arrive to take samples and then return them to a lab. Got an update today saying they are on their way.

What is the ETA

 

[GlicksChicks]

What is the ETA

Saturday by 9pm. So long

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Saturday by 9pm. So long

Try not to stress