Ten days ago I picked up a blackbird chick fallen from nest.
It was noisy and layful until yesterday, although seemed very ill: it has an 5 mm nodule a the middle articulation of one wing and was and is very thin and over this period it developed only little, althouh it had an enormous appetite, eating as much as a pigeon, although is the size of a sparrow. In fact, his bones are clearly visibly through skin, is extraordinary emaciated.
This morning some dramatic changes happened, he can't move one of the legs anymore, stopped eating and drinking (stopped asking food and opening the beak). The fact that doesn't move the leg may also be because I accidentally hit him (he jumped off from table and I tried to catch him in the air but actually slamed him).
Another symptoms are a bluish spot of unfeathered skin above one of the eyes, losing some feathers and scratching often. Also, this morning he is desperated to hide in some dark place.
Previous days, I gave him antibiotics and a medicine against coccidiosis. Could the leg have paralysed from coccidiosis or maybe he has some virus?
LE: he now ate a little.
It was noisy and layful until yesterday, although seemed very ill: it has an 5 mm nodule a the middle articulation of one wing and was and is very thin and over this period it developed only little, althouh it had an enormous appetite, eating as much as a pigeon, although is the size of a sparrow. In fact, his bones are clearly visibly through skin, is extraordinary emaciated.
This morning some dramatic changes happened, he can't move one of the legs anymore, stopped eating and drinking (stopped asking food and opening the beak). The fact that doesn't move the leg may also be because I accidentally hit him (he jumped off from table and I tried to catch him in the air but actually slamed him).
Another symptoms are a bluish spot of unfeathered skin above one of the eyes, losing some feathers and scratching often. Also, this morning he is desperated to hide in some dark place.
Previous days, I gave him antibiotics and a medicine against coccidiosis. Could the leg have paralysed from coccidiosis or maybe he has some virus?
LE: he now ate a little.
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