How do you treat a chicken that has had a stroke?

Answer 1

There's not much you can do. Try to feed it and water it - it probably won't take solid food, so try liquid stuff - i.e. dilute milk (so it gets some calcium), possibly a small amount of apple juice (vitamins), vitamin/tonics that can be added to water are good (make sure you use the right concentrations - refer to the bottle and do not mix these kinds of things, you do not want to give the chicken too rich a diet). Sugar water is also very good (glucose) but make sure that you do use ordinary water as well - a dehydrated chicken is not good. You may find that the chicken's poo is very watery, so make sure it's back end is clean. Try giving it solid food everyday (particularly soft stuff like scrambled egg), and try to encourage it to eat and drink by itself. You may have to use a syringe to being with. If it starts to fight the syringe that's probably a good sign as it means that it is recovering, but still try to feed it anyway - every hour (especially if it is hot) if possible.

Make sure it doesn't get too hot/cold. Keep it in comfortable conditions, make sure that the other chickens aren't picking on it.

All you can do is try, there is no magic treatment or drug you can use (that I know of). The chicken will either survive or not, but at least you've given it it's best chance. Good luck.