Young (3-4 months old) roo fading away :( Update - no cocci found, but fading continues...

[Dudu]

Just a small update, Lenny is doing kind of same as before, except he's pooping sometimes normal and sometimes stinky poopy coloured diarhea. Active when out and about in the morning or evening, at other times kind of standing as before, not looking very happy, but then again I really need to change their environment now (and hopefully I will soon), because they haven't got much to do in the spare bathroom. Hopefully we will move them in an outside crate now on the patio, and will bring them inside to sleep for the night.

I am giving them vitamins in water right now (a whole complex, called Vitalic).

Here are some pics of him now. He hasn't gained much weight at least yet, but at least he's not losing it anymore. All in all he really doesn't look too bad, maybe I'm just a very concerned momma (and I have things to be concerned about - going to post a video of another baby on a new thread....)

 

[cowcreekgeek]

He looks ... confident. Which is what a healthier bird might do (but, that a sick one most probably would do as well, when hens were nearby ~'-)

I'll watch for your new thread ...

 

[Suzie]

x 2 - he does look better than the previous pictures - confidence in his demeanour now!

Praying for you still!!! ( and Lenny )

Suzie

 

[Dudu]

Thanks so much, guys.

 

[cowcreekgeek]

Thanks so much, guys.

You're welcome, but ... you might be cursing my name, somewhere down the road. As heroic as efforts to intervene can seem at the time, such as your own have been, I suspect we've just created that proverbial weak link w/in the chain, in that birds which survive as the result are most often considerably weaker than others w/in the flocks they form. Certainly, prevention 'n such benefits 'em all, but ... it's almost as if we sometimes interfere w/ the way God designed 'em and, if we dare do such a thing, we ultimately suffer the consequences of our actions.

 

[Dudu]

I know what you mean.... But since these sweeties don't live in the nature, but with me, I feel to a great extent responsible for any harm that may come over them - that I didn't take precautions in advance, that I didn't provide the best conditions for them, that I didn't give them the most appropriate food.... There are so many things that depend on me entirely, and it may be that things got messed up because of my fault and it is my direct duty to try and correct it if at all possible. However, my fault or not, I can't just sit around and do nothing (though I'm trying to learn not to feel guilty if things don't work out as hoped); I would like to try and help, at least that way I can say I did what I could. And it's correct that at least in this case my boy has always been the weakest of them, he's always liked sleeping in between two siblings and not on the side (he literally made it a point to squeeze himself between them), he's only attempted to crow a couple of times in his early age, but I still have to do what depends on me, and for that I do greatly thank you and everyone else who responded and even just browsed this thread.

 

[cowcreekgeek]

I know what you mean.... But since these sweeties don't live in the nature, but with me, I feel to a great extent responsible for any harm that may come over them - that I didn't take precautions in advance, that I didn't provide the best conditions for them, that I didn't give them the most appropriate food.... There are so many things that depend on me entirely, and it may be that things got messed up because of my fault and it is my direct duty to try and correct it if at all possible. However, my fault or not, I can't just sit around and do nothing (though I'm trying to learn not to feel guilty if things don't work out as hoped); I would like to try and help, at least that way I can say I did what I could. And it's correct that at least in this case my boy has always been the weakest of them, he's always liked sleeping in between two siblings and not on the side (he literally made it a point to squeeze himself between them), he's only attempted to crow a couple of times in his early age, but I still have to do what depends on me, and for that I do greatly thank you and everyone else who responded and even just browsed this thread.

I understand *completely* where you're comin' from, as I've 'fixed what I've broken' a few times w/ my own birds. But, I cringe w/ each success, knowing that helpin' the weakened/wounded survive perpetuates the potential harm I feel at least partly responsible for triggering in some way. And, often, nature corrects that mistake, as these are the ones that will are most likely to die first, when next somethin' comes their way ... and, that's where it become more clear to me: That, by intervening, I cause a weaker bird to remain w/in my flock, which serves to culture the later threat. But, I still do it, too ~'-)