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    Chick leg issue

    I looked at the hocks from the back last night and noticed the bad one is much bigger so I think he broke it when younger and it healed wrong 😔 I didn't notice him early enough to feel the break with having 15 chicks together. Definitely not spraddle leg. Thanks for the symptom website, I've...
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    Chick leg issue

    It was new when it happened. It's been over a month now, no vet will see him around here and I can't find the right info online to help (been looking regularly since I noticed it), and I know the wrong aide can be worse than the initial issue so I'm hesitant to try without being confident. I...
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    Chick leg issue

    Yea, I was trying to figure out how to tape it up so it can't bend out to the side. I can't quite figure that out and I'm not finding good suggestions online.
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    Chick leg issue

    He acts just fine, doesn't show pain or resistance to me trying to move it... It's just all loosey goosey and bends to the outside when he walks. I have checked several times for breaks or dislocations with none felt, also seems like the tendon is in proper placement.
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    Chick leg issue

    We have a 6 week old welsummer cockerel that has a bum leg. It doesn't seem to bother it much. It still gets up on a 12" roost just fine, eats and drinks normal, walks as much as the others, and isn't bullied. It just looks terrible when he walks, bending out to the side.. I'm not sure what it's...
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    4.5 week old chick not growing **now with pics** ((Updated))

    Is the food just too big for them? I noticed some of my chicks picking up food and dropping it, then scratching for different food. I used a coffee grinder to make it smaller and they started eating like crazy. The crumbles of that particular food were just a bit too big at that time.
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    Ordered splash maran from hatchery but colors seem wrong?

    Thanks for the pics, that's what I expected it to look like. They're so pretty, it's a bummer mine isn't looking like a splash, but I guess it'll be fun seeing what it looks like as it grows!
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    Bantam chicks same size as standard chicks??

    I ordered 8 standard chicks with 4 bantams (all of different breeds) and only 2 bantams are noticeably smaller. Is it normal for some bantams to be the same size as standard chicks still by 3 weeks old? I'm trying to distinguish between a standard and a bantam green queen (I got 1 of each) and...
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    Ordered splash maran from hatchery but colors seem wrong?

    I love all my chickens so whatever she grows to look like she'll be special here and love free ranging with the others. I appreciate all the help and suggestions on this post, it's been fruitful for me!
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    Ordered splash maran from hatchery but colors seem wrong?

    I just looked into them on their website but those 2 are supposed to come with leg bands and this chick doesn't have one so it would have to be the blue cuckoo maran or the splash but it's colors don't match either. At least now I know the other is most likely the bantam EE and this blue one...
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    Ordered splash maran from hatchery but colors seem wrong?

    I ordered a Splash Maran, but the order inventory in the shipping box labeled it blue splash maran, on the website they seem to be one in the same (I checked into the name confusion as soon as I got them).
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    Ordered splash maran from hatchery but colors seem wrong?

    Yes, and there was a bantam EE in my order for my daughter's mini flock so I'm convinced now that I had the 2 chick breeds flop flopped. Has anyone ever heard of a splash maran chick being dark blue like this? They're supposed to be yellow and sometimes having VERY light grey tints as day...
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    Ordered splash maran from hatchery but colors seem wrong?

    I can't find any pics online that show anything but full grown or day old chicks so I have no reference for how it's colors may or may not change as it gets older. I was really excited for the typical splash maran look, but I really am more interested in knowing which chicks are what breeds...
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    Ordered splash maran from hatchery but colors seem wrong?

    Barely noticeable comb at all, the blue chick I posted pics of has a more maran style comb though and the feathered legs. I'm thinking the dark blue/grey coloring threw me off from it being the splash.
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    Ordered splash maran from hatchery but colors seem wrong?

    Meyer Hatchery, but I added another post below with pictures of another chick that maaaaaay be my splash. I ordered 13 chicks and 5 were bantams but only 3 bantams were obvious so there are 2 bantams I am unsure of bc of their larger size, those would be an EE and a Green Queen. I may have...
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