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We've got around 100 meat chicks at the moment, they are a few weeks old and are starting to grow feathers. My mum found a chick yesterday whose leg was sticking out at a 70° angle, it's in pain so it's not putting any weight on it & can still bend it so it lies down a lot. I'm pretty sure it's...

I often post about injuries and diseases on here because I find that this is the best place for it, we're a family farm who have, in the last two years, started raising meat birds to sell. We've noticed with a certain breed that the young cockerels will have a leg injury, one day they'll be fine...

We had to put her down, so I can’t take a photo of her now. But her neck curled sideways and she struggled to lift her head up, they’re now a month old and we were feeding organic chick crumb, now we’re feeding organic growers pellets, grit and they’re on grass.

At the moment I’m raising three flocks of meat birds, and the breed we were given seems to be wrong. I noticed one of my chicks wasn’t running away when I went near her and her legs seem to not work. I got her in and have been feeding her as normal, I researched that she could have mareks...

One of my chicks must have jumped in the water drinker when I was gone, when I went to shut them all in I saw her and thought she was dead. I picked her up and she’s still breathing! I immediately held her upside down to get any fluid out of her lungs and a bit came out, I then performed mouth...

Oh god, thank you for letting me know :)

Ok thank you, today she's not looking as bad but is drinking copious amounts of water and not eating much. Is there any reason for it? I've asked my mum to give her some scrambled egg to get her appetite up, if she doesn't eat that then what should we try giving her?

No I mean I can’t get it, we live too far away from local vet shops and all the other stuff needed we’d have to get behind counter.

We don’t have that, we are in the Uk, I’ll give her some vermx which treats most things naturally along with the Oct.

We researched and it said we can put it in the water, is this ok?

Just a stab in the dark, could she have ear mites? I remember I had a silkie with ear mites and she ended up not being able to walk properly.

How much should I use and where do we inject her?

Yes we are in the Uk, we have oxytetracycline and procaine penicillin.

Ok thank you! I’ve never heard of corid, but I’ll try and get some soon. We only have sheep and cow antibiotics so no.

Ok, thank you. I hope she isn’t in too much pain :(