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Another update: Birta is still doing great although she has some stiffness. I have an equine chiropractor adjust her every couple of months and this helps a lot!! She discovered some impaired movement in her left leg and was able to fix that :)

Another quick update! Birta is doing GREAT and is nearly 100% back to normal! She is roosting at night, taking dust baths, scratching, and I let her out last night for a couple hours to free range and she was ALL over the farm, just like her normal self. She's still on the Baytril, and I am...

Update on my hen Birta....This morning for the first time I let her out of her dog kennel to walk around the hen house floor. She walked all over the place, scratched, ate in the various treat bowls, and then flew up into a nest to lay an egg!! She's still wobbly but she is getting stronger...

Well, we went to the avian vet and he thinks it is a severe calcium deficiency. He did a good exam and he couldn't feel anything wrong with a joint or any kind of break or injury. He did some neurological tests on her feet and legs and said she is having a lack of muscle contractions to move...

She does roost up very high, but she's a light, athletic hen. She's not big like a Brahma. She is a generic Production Red/White Leghorn mix that I hatched out. But yes, I have wondered if it was an injury from flying down or getting knocked down. She was fine that night before bed then the...

She has been laying an egg every day - a normal, big sized egg. Then she eats it! Ugh oh well. She's been an egg eater in the past, but she quit for about a year and since she's been in the dog cage with the egg every day, she's been eating it again. But, if it's giving her nutrition then...

This is an old thread, but I've read it all and I'm very hopeful that a vitamin deficiency is what's wrong with my Birta. I found her on July 4th unable to walk. She doesn't seem sick - she preens her feathers, eats and drinks, but she can't walk at all. She lays kind of on her chest with her...