lame leg

Sorry for the long post, but I’m trying to be as descriptive as possible. We have a Blue Ancona hen that is approx 8 months old that started developing symptoms about a month and a half ago. For the first week, she started getting loud and moody, then the second week she began to get poofy and...

I have a chick that hatched a few days ago that can’t seem to walk properly. He has one leg toward the front and one toward the back and his foot to the front is larger and seems to be full of fluid. He doesn’t open his foot either, it stays closed like he is being held all the time. He’s been...

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...

Seems like I have great luck with chicks, Lyanna is a chick, we’ve had her 4/5 days, so she’s at most a week old. She’s 38 grams (gaining a lot every day, this is normal for her), and she is a barred rock. Yesterday night (the 11th) I took her and the other two new chicks aside to make sure...

Our 9-month-old mallard hen is dragging her right foot/leg today. She was walking normally on it yesterday, but our son noticed this afternoon when we were out to check on them that she was not coming to see him like she usually does. Upon examining her foot, leg, and hip, I don't notice any...

Before I get started I'd like to spoil the ending here because if you've found this post you're probably a Mama (or Papa) in the middle of a freak out just like I was. My 5 week old girl Lil Peep has made a full recovery this morning, she is up and walking like nothing happened, eating and...

Hello everyone. Today I’m seeking some advice about one of my pullets. She has a bad leg. But first some background info. When she was a chick, she got what we think was a slipped tendon at about 1 week. I put her in a chick chair for a few days, and when she came out it looked perfectly normal...

Hi! My neighbors have an Araucana chicken that has adopted me as her flock. This is ok with them as they won't be getting more chickens until spring and with 5 children they don't have much time to devote to her. I don't care for their laisse faire attitude when it comes to their flock so I am...

Hi, we are fairly new to raising chickens. We bought our first batch from Rural King back in March of this year. 17 of them and they are healthy and strong and laying eggs and doing great. In April we revisited rural king and they had two baby chicks all alone in a crate, their brothers and...

My barred rock, who was also raised from a chick, won't put weight on her right leg. She was perfectly fine yesterday, and when i went out this morning, one of my black sex links alerted me to her huddled behind the nesting boxes. The SL was going at her hard and that is when I saw her lame leg...