Would like some advice. We just got six 2-3 week old baby chicks, the day after we got them, we noticed one has a brownish-black toe nail and part way up it's toe. It's not swollen, the chick is acting completely normal! Eating, drinking and running around. I don't know that much about chicken...
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I had rescued a male Coturnix quail on Sunday afternoon; originally he only had a head/eye injury, but come Monday morning his left toe on the left leg and right toe on the right leg were swollen and bleeding through the skin. The tip of the left toe is now shriveling and black...
My young rooster broke his toe. I tried to splint it awhile back but I made him limp more so I took it off. It started to turn black. I was told it would just fall off but it hasn’t and now it is very swollen around the black part. I’m wondering if he is pecking at it?? Please help!! What do I do?!
Within the past two days my polish hens back toe has turned black. I have attached pictures of the black toe and the regular toe. I'm not sure what the course of action should be for her toe. She's started limping tonight and I'm worried. She's eating drinking and acting normal but her walking...
One of our chicks hatched with a clubbed foot, all his toes curved sideways causing him to walk on the inside top of the foot. He is half the size of the rest of his brood mates even though he eats and drinks he is not growing . He peeps constantly day and night, unless he is being held- this...