So this has happened to a total of maybe 10 birds out of around 50.... one day drinking and doing their thing....and then back legs go limp. I have attached two photos of each , one a hen....the other a rooster. The hen is inside because she could no longer get up in the hen house......and...
So we need some help... as you can see from the picture the main concern is if it it is the umbilical or the placenta thing and if it will just dry up.... or something more serious such as the intestine or something internal from the chick.
Let me back up.... we out this morning and our blue...
A friend of mine called me one morning and said she purchased some chickens at the local Ace Hardware and was keeping them in her garage and her husband said they had to go. I already had six Wyndotte hens and a rooster so I said sure. Does anybody know what breed they are? (I know that the...