jnyce
886 posts
Jun 20, 2010
1:38 PM
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Well today i notice that one of my youngs seems have something wrong with him it hardly ever walks and when it does try it seems to be draging its left side of the body what could be the cause of this and how do i fix it the parent look healthy and they seem to be ignoring the young
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JMUrbon
1054 posts
Jun 20, 2010
4:28 PM
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Cull the young bird and clean your loft of any posibility of bacteriea. Clean your waterers, Clean any signs of mice or rats and disinfect the nest box and change out the bowl. Good luck. Joe
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jnyce
887 posts
Jun 20, 2010
4:41 PM
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Hey joe absolutly no mice or rats new wateers and clean the box once a week
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JMUrbon
1055 posts
Jun 20, 2010
4:54 PM
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The young bird ounds like ( just by your description) to be suffering from paratyphiod. Which happens to be probably the most common ailment we have to deal with. I would still cull the young and then disinfect the loft while putting all of the stock birds on a good 4 & 1. Hopefully this will help. No guarentees but its a start. Joe
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Oldfart
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1856 posts
Jun 20, 2010
4:55 PM
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Was the bird a single? Could it have straddle leg and not be able to walk? Are any other birds acting like something is wrong?
Thom
Last Edited by on Jun 20, 2010 5:00 PM
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rookie from ct
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303 posts
Jun 20, 2010
4:58 PM
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Hay Jerry can it be straddle leg , often will happen when there is only one squab in the nest or,& not enough nesting material. If this is the case and your squab has a band on each leg tie a twist tie to them for 1 week If not double banded just tie the legs together.Good luck Dennis
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jnyce
888 posts
Jun 20, 2010
5:07 PM
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Yes he is the only one its in a individual pen and the parents look fine
jerry t
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rookie from ct
GOLD MEMBER
304 posts
Jun 20, 2010
5:29 PM
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That happened to me two weeks ago and everyone said cull cull I put a twist tie to her double bands for a week and now you would never know it was almost culled. Dennis
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jnyce
889 posts
Jun 20, 2010
5:42 PM
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yeah but it looks like the wing is hanging also
jerry t
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JMUrbon
1056 posts
Jun 20, 2010
9:37 PM
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You know I dont mean to offend anybody but a bird that looks ill and is struggling is very easy to tell the difference from a bird with straddled legs. Straddled leggs doesnt mean the bird wont look perfectly health. They will just struggle to get around but they will still try to get feed. A sick/ ill bird will give up trying to get feed and then the parents sence that there is something wrong and will give up and go into the breeding mode again. Monitor the young bird and see for yourself whether it is actually ill of something else. Put the bird on a solid surface with good traction and if the bird can't get it's leggs together then you have a young with straddled leggs. Let us know what you come up with. Joe
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Oldfart
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1857 posts
Jun 21, 2010
3:43 AM
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Hey Joe, No offence taken, but the original post did not provide much information. He did not say it looked sick, only that it did not walk.
Thom
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rookie from ct
GOLD MEMBER
305 posts
Jun 21, 2010
5:18 AM
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Jerry the bird has it's wing out for balance, depending how old the bird is, and if it is straddled leg if it is fixable but why not give it a try. You can also do a site search straddle leg. good Luck Dennis
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JDA
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867 posts
Jun 21, 2010
5:49 AM
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Jerry.... pick the youngster up and look at the legs, If they are not next to the body but one or both spreed to the side it's a good sign that it has straddled leg,s.the twisty,s work well to help heal this.You will probable have to hand feed if the parent's won't feed.Good luck JDA
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az-je
96 posts
Jun 22, 2010
12:37 PM
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this can also be due to dehydration, make sure it gets a good drink of water
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TheGame
764 posts
Jun 23, 2010
7:13 PM
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Jnyce if it is straddle leg you should use sand in your nestbowls and then w/e else you give them to build a nest with. I started using sand and it works great.
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J_Star
2303 posts
Jun 25, 2010
6:24 AM
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Cull it and move on.
Jay
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