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    Silkie chicken has a leg thats stopped working!

    Hi, I really hope someone can help. I have a young silkie cockerel, about 7 or 8 months old. About 2 weeks ago now he started to try not to walk on one leg, and was kind of hopping. It's got worse and he started to just drag it behind him, but seemed otherwise fine, eating, getting out and about...
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    Wonky neck and spinning head on a silkie chicken!

    Yes I'm very pleased, he's completely fine now which is unbelievable if you saw what he was like, I almost gave in and was going to let him go as was horrible to watch but turned out well! I don't mind that she is a he, but depends how loud he is and how the nieghbours take it but fingers...
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    Wonky neck and spinning head on a silkie chicken!

    Hi, just wanted to say that my chicken with the wonky neck that was falling over & spinning around etc is now completely fine! I put it in the cellar for a while, put some vitamins in the water & gave him a couple of neck massages before putting it to bed & each day there was improvement and...
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    Wonky neck and spinning head on a silkie chicken!

    Hi, thanks so much for your replies. I have tried to implement the things you have suggested, I've have took her in and put her in my cellar which is clean and dry (which I think she is appreciating as its very wet out at the moment and she was getting damp and she kept falling over and getting...
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    Wonky neck and spinning head on a silkie chicken!

    Hi, I'm hoping someone might be able to help me. I'm quite new to owning chickens and I have got 4 young silkies. One of the younger ones, about 20 weeks old has always had a bit of a wonky neck and tends to have its head on one side, and always seems a bit more clumsy than the others. The last...
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