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lilpuppet

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Ok so a Lil back history I have never owned chicks. I have had chickens, help raise chicks, and worked on a Chicken farm. Now I finally got my own Lil flock was sapose to be 6-8 total well many chicks later we have some issues idk how to handle. we bought6 but couldn't get a roo. So we went to another store and bought 3 more not roos either. ( I do know how to sex by wing vent and a few others) I also know they sent 100% all the time. But anyway I was gonna buy one I knew probably wouldn't make it. It was from a feed store. Just to try and help and give it a good few days just incase. Has to be better than living where everyone sits on you. well the lady talked to me and told me the normal he's not gonna live blah blah. I told her I know that was not the point and that I know how to Care for them. So she gave me free of charge 9 chicks. Ok most were just really wet and cold. And now doing fine. One had his vent clogged and now is ok once we helped open it up and he got use of it. But there are 2 idk what is up. One will not open his eyes period he will walk and eat drink ect. But won't open them could she be blind? she is roughly 3 days old.
And the 2nd seemed ok But she drags her right foot. I thought it was her leg but it's the foot. It's not bumble foot. When you pick her up it seems fine she opens it to stand in your hand. And grabs your fingers. But once on her own she can't seem to walk and won't open the foot and kinda hops and drags it along nothing looks wrong. She seems ok otherwise. Plz help if you have any ideas
 
Update just checked on my Lil hospital. And we'll the one who had the messed up foot. Passed. So now I still have a question can chicks be blind. Well I know the answer to that but do they not open there eyes or is there another reason why she won't open them?
 
Hello :frow and Welcome To BYC! Sorry about the problems you are having with the chicks, you might want to post in the Emergencies forum about them, if you can post pictures that might help people figure out what is going on https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/10/emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures Chicks are sometime hatched with congenital defects like missing eyes or fused eyelids. Do check the chick over closely, even wash over her eyes carefully with a warm cloth, sometimes they have a sticky hatch and there may be something gluing the eyes shut.
 
You are so very kind to take on the poor chicks the store has given up on. I wish I could tell you what is wrong with your poor blind chick and how to help her. Also wonder how many chicks with problems got sold to people who didn't notice. So glad you joined the flock
 
Ok new update. The o e with a hurt foot actually lived. She is doi g really well besides not walking on that foot. She walks on the top. And hobbles around. But very lively and she seems quite Content with her self. The eyes did finally open I picked her up last night was gonna wipe her eyes with a cloth. And she looked at me both eyes open all the way. Like I had lost my ever lasting mind. But she still walks around with em shut all the time. she gets around fine. So I'm lost as to why. But one of the Lil batamans think I spelled that wrong. Is not doing well. She was ok last night. But now she is wobbly and looks like she is drunk. Idk if she will make it. She doesn't look or act so k just drunk lol. She eats and walks drinks plays ect. So another loss. But the sad part of the morning. The one who's vent was plugged didn't make it and neither did 2 batamans they we soaking wet when we got them last night someone got them and didn't know a thing about them. Got them home wet and Cold.And brought them back before we checked out. I really wanted them to make it. They road home in my shirt to keep warm after I dried them a bit. There was 3 and one made a almost complete recovery before we got home.
 
Ok I did. Ty and I also have some idk there breed they were free and the lady didn't tell me just that they were sick. I posted there under. chick hospital. With some pic in a min.
 

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