Is your chick or chicken in laying down or scooting around and not walking? If the answer is yes read this article. There are three main problems your chicken/chick could have. Leg problems will most likely happen in chicks but can happen and older chickens. These are the three main leg problems that could happen:
1. Vitamin deficiency
2. Slipped tendon
3. Broken leg
Vitamin Deficiency
Vitamin deficiency is The most common. Symptoms can include: lethargic, not walking, not using legs at all, crawling. To treat a vitamin deficiency make a chicken smoothie blend up cucumbers, gatorade, and any other vitamin rich vegetables or fruits give as much as you can to them every day until it’s gone and you don’t need the whole bottle of Gatorade just like a quarter of a bottle of Gatorade or however much you want. Then you can buy vitamins to put in their water for chicks and chickens or if you want to put it in their food what I used when I had a chick with a vitamin deficiency was poultry booster that you can buy from tractor supply or amazon two months or older use the Full dose younger use half a dose. Until they start walking when they start walking just monitor them and you can keep giving them vitamins if you want but after they start walking they are pretty much good to go.
Slipped Tendon
A slipped tendon is a little harder to treat if they have a slip tendon they will be holding their leg up with their joint bent and their foot to their body and you might think it’s broken. TREATMENT IS BEST LEFT TO A VET AND WILL NOT FIX ITSELF.
Broken Leg
if the chicken has a broken leg they might try to walk but will not put any weight on it and can be very difficult and stressful to treat treatment is also best left to a vet you can wrap the leg but the chicken needs to be an optimal conditions to heal.
1. Vitamin deficiency
2. Slipped tendon
3. Broken leg
Vitamin Deficiency
Vitamin deficiency is The most common. Symptoms can include: lethargic, not walking, not using legs at all, crawling. To treat a vitamin deficiency make a chicken smoothie blend up cucumbers, gatorade, and any other vitamin rich vegetables or fruits give as much as you can to them every day until it’s gone and you don’t need the whole bottle of Gatorade just like a quarter of a bottle of Gatorade or however much you want. Then you can buy vitamins to put in their water for chicks and chickens or if you want to put it in their food what I used when I had a chick with a vitamin deficiency was poultry booster that you can buy from tractor supply or amazon two months or older use the Full dose younger use half a dose. Until they start walking when they start walking just monitor them and you can keep giving them vitamins if you want but after they start walking they are pretty much good to go.
Slipped Tendon
A slipped tendon is a little harder to treat if they have a slip tendon they will be holding their leg up with their joint bent and their foot to their body and you might think it’s broken. TREATMENT IS BEST LEFT TO A VET AND WILL NOT FIX ITSELF.
Broken Leg
if the chicken has a broken leg they might try to walk but will not put any weight on it and can be very difficult and stressful to treat treatment is also best left to a vet you can wrap the leg but the chicken needs to be an optimal conditions to heal.
