injured chick

Hello, I would like to get advice or help on how to help my chick heal! And first how I can determine if it is just sprained or if it broke, I accidentally stepped on her.. I know :((... so I am trying to help it be comfortable and heel well. Please help

Hey chicken friends, This site has been so helpful raising my chicks so I hope someone can help. A few days ago a crow or big bird of sone type attacked my month old chick , we heard noise and as we approached the yard saw a little fluffy thing fall from sky, it was one of the the little...

Hi everyone, I have an 8-9 week old chick with an injured leg. I took her to the vet about 11 days ago and he x-rayed her and said her leg looks like it was injured when she was very little and just grew back wrong. He bandaged her and that was it. He isn’t a specialist so that’s all he could...

Hi there, I have just hatched 13 chick eggs from a mixed batch. One of them was fine for a couple of days but has developed a horrible twist in its neck. I have been feeding it egg yolk and chick crumb. Can someone advise me on the best form of treatment please.

I have a 5 week week old chick that doesnt seem to be able to stand normal and im not sure how to help her. About a week and a half ago or so she seemed to had injured her leg as she was non stop chirping and wasnt standing or being active. I noticed she would try to lay on her side or pick up...

I just adopted a “runt” chick from a friend because all their other chicks were attacking it (pulling out feathers, pecking to the point of bleeding, stepping on it). We aren’t supposed to get the rest of our chicks for 3 days, but I had to rescue this poor girl/guy and save it from being killed...

Fiver is a 2 month old chick with an unknown leg injury. At first, it started off with a minor limp but it quickly got worse. I put him in a bird cage for 3 days and while I was changing the paper at the bottom I noticed his limp has gotten a lot worse, even with his time in the cage. Fiver’s...

My bantam hen recently had little chicks (like two days ago) and I went outside to today to check on them and realized one wasn’t there so I looked for it. I found it alone just quietly standing there but it’s eyes and ears were injured! I wondering what could’ve happened to it (I’m guessing...

I have a silkie chick that Is acting off. This has started in the last few days. She tries her very best to keep up with the rest of the chicks and she is moving around to eat and drink, scratching in the bedding etc. But I've noticed she cannot fully lift up her neck. I'm not sure if I'm...

Hello, I have 6 ~2.5 week old chicks, with 3 breed total in a brooder. I have 2 lavender Orpington in the mix, which both looked and seemed perfectly healthy when I got them, but a few days ago I noticed they were both having some trouble standing and walking. I did a little research, and I...

We have two silkie hens who are currently co-raising two chicks together (also silkies). Yesterday I heard a chick screaming and ran in to find one hen walking around with a baby stuck to her, flopping the chick around as she moved. I grabbed him, ripped him off the Mom, and raced him inside to...

This morning i went to check if my bantam chicks had hatched since i was expecting them to and i found a day old chick that has been attacked and cannot see! 😰 i am extremely devastated His both eyes are swollen and had also been missing some feathers on it's neck. Thankfully the good news is...

Hello, I took my chick to the vet but was too late. We couldn’t take her sooner cuz of money issues. I didn’t want to put her down since she was healthy besides the leg and vet said she wasn’t in pain. We’d just have to keep an eye on her which I don’t mind, I wanna give her a happy adult...

I have a hen who just hatched two chicks yesterday. She has hatched many chicks for me before and been one of the best mommas. But when I checked on them in the afternoon both chicks had head injuries like she had pecked them! They were in a brooder box inside, so no predators. Do you think the...

Day before yesterday (possibly the day before that) I noticed my baby polish chick was acting weird (eyes half open), I feared it didn't have enough water so I filled the waterer with sugar water. Then later on I noticed one side of it's nose had stuff in it. I washed off what I could (I did not...

One of the chicks fell and broke her leg. It's broken up in the fluffy part, chicken anatomy diagrams say it's her thigh. It's dangling and flopping, she keeps twisting it at the break so I'm holding her. She can't seem to move that leg. No swelling that I can see, and no blood. I'm not sure...

Hi I’m new to raising backyard chickens. I incubated for the first time and half the eggs hatched. I have three cute polish and the rest of the eggs didn’t hatch even after 22 days and the ones that piped got shrink wrapped because I took chicks out and the last one was the polish had its leg...

Found chick down in brooder with other chicks running over her! All are 7 days old. Can’t stand, not fluttering wings as usual. Had stuff stuck on her back from being trampled. Gave her egg yolk, warm bath with tiny amt of dawn dish soap, gentle rinse & blow dry, followed by electrolytes &...

I have a week old quail chick who yesterday started limping. I now believe he jumped and landed weird. I don’t think it is spradde: neither joint is swollen, couldn’t feel a slipped tendon, looks the same as each other and the other chicks. His right leg is not pointing straight but instead to...

I have 6 chicks (about 6ish weeks olds) in a separate area of our coop that just transitioned there a few days ago from their brooder. Two days ago I was checking on the chicks that I found that all the feathers on our cream legbar’s back had been pecked off and the other chicks also had pecked...