hurt chick

I have a newly hatched chick whose right hock is bigger than her/him left one and she wont put weight on it. We thought it was splay leg at first but then we looked closer and when we put pressure on it she peeps really loud. Also one of her toes was under her other ones when she hatched. All...

Hello! Barley been a day but I’m back here this time with what I think is a broken leg. I’m not sure I have a silkie chicken her name is Kitty she’s about 3 months old and I walked into the garage this morning to find her acting dead and my barred rock rooster (who isn’t a bantam but we...

I saw one of my Polish chicks pecking at my lavender orpington’s toe. Upon further inspection I realized it was red and bleeding! The bleeding has stopped, it wasn’t a lot of blood, but the toe is bright red and I was wondering if at this age if that’s a big issue? If so, is there anything I can...

My chicks are about 5+weeks old. (A first timer with chickens, but I have ducks) We live in Florida and since they have 99% of their feathers, we’ve been letting them sleep outside. It’s been warm! If it’s cold we bring them in. ANYWAYS, I went to put them away tonight, a little later than...

I have a Light Sussex chick who had a slipped tendon at or shortly after hatching . I was able to put it back in place and bandage the leg. After this she was able to move it and take some weight on it. Since then it has got harder to get the tendon back in place before reapplying the bandage...

hello, we recently came across an injured chicken while visiting where we get our eggs from. I need some help figuring out how to help it, splint, letting it rest, or doing something further. We dont have it yet since it took a lot of thought to say yes since it will get killed if it doesn't do...

Hi everyone! I saw this happen in action so I can tell you some clarifying details. so the mama hen was on top of a very tall cage. She flew down and landed on the baby who is about four weeks old. The chick has its leg up and it’s clearly hurt but they can run on it and keep up with it...

*first time chick keeper here!* This little black silkie jusy arrived today. He/she is having a hard time walking on his right foot. And the other chicks Are pecking at the weak foot. We separated him from the others. Any idea what could be wrong or what we should do?? We must save him/her! Any...

Hello! Me and mom raise chicks and are currently taking care of 10;however, one the chicks got attacked by our dog. She is alive but got wounds on her leg and back. Her right leg is strong and works fine but her left leg isn’t working, she can’t even move it. It’s not broken so could it be nerve...

Yesterday I had came back to my home to see that my chick wasn't peeping (we let it be outside but inside a cage type of area, we couldn't keep it outside with the rest of the flock since a hawk or bird of that kind took it's two other siblings before). It was injured, and very badly at that :(...

My chick (month old) was bit by a dog. The chick has two wounds one on each leg and was bleeding pretty bad, she's stiff and I don't think she's breathing is there any chance I can bring her back to life?

Please help! My chicks are one week old today. As I was cleaning their coop indoors I realised that two of my chicks had poop on there bum. I clean the first cheek that had poop around his bottom with warm water and a tissue and it came off easily. I then picked up my gorgeous little silky and...

One of our 2.5 week old chicks is not growing as fast and we discovered a bump on its leg. It’s been sleeping a lot more lately and I am thinking it may not survive much longer:(. Is there anything we can do?

This is a warning to silky lovers. I hatched 25 silky chicks and all was good. Until I put 6 guinea keets in with them. They were the same size and at first nothing was wrong. Overnight the guineas had accedently killed 22 chicks. They squished them not on purpose though 3 where left the 3 still...

I have a chick thre struggled with getting out of the egg but did. Took over 24 hours to get out. Had bad crooked toes and I did the bandaid tip the toes for 2 days but she isn't waking or trying to walk at all. Looks like a slipped or crooked hook and something maybe wrong with her ankle. She...

About 2 weeks ago my 5 month old chicken hurt her leg, I don’t know how but I found her limping around. Since then I’ve isolated her from the other, been giving her aspirin, and spraying her leg with anti septic spray. However she does not seem to be getting better she stopped laying her eggs...

This is my second season rasing chickens and our chickens are our babies! Everyone always comments when they come over that they have never seen chickens living such a lavish life. So with that said, I am so upset because one of our chickens (a little over a year old) attacked one of our babies...

Hi! My family and I recently got our first four chicks! We are first time chick owners. One of our chicks looks like their feathers are being plucked! It was bleeding more yesterday and I took these pics this morning. We aren’t really sure what to do! The chicks are about 2 months old. We think...

I have a small 2 month old chick, who's leg us slowed bc of her crooked leg. I have been keeping her with her sisters, they're all the same age, but they've really outgrown her. She's much smaller than them, and needs help to get food and water. But that's not the issue. When I went out to feed...

Help! This baby chick cant walk and all it can do is sleep. My dog knocked my incubator over right before it began pipping. It was already a small egg and I was worried but persisted. It can open its eyes but can't eat or drink yet as it's only been hatched for 8 or so hours. Please does anyone...