I have a disabled months old small rooster with a deformed leg, he often topples over and struggles on the floor due to his one leg being grown sideways.
Within a span of a few days he developed a big wound/scab on his chest, which I suspect to be self harm?
however just now I witnessed him...
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I have a white sultan rooster who is now about 3.5 months old with a pretty deformed leg. I previously posted questions about his weird foot when he was a chick here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chick-with-foot-deformity-or-tumor.1478244/
Back then he only hopped around a...
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I have a batch of 1 month old chicks, 12 white sultans and 4 silkies. They are living in a caged shelf compartment inside the main coop of our chickens in warm California weather. There is almost no light source inside besides the door leading into it, so they are provided night lights...
Hello, I have a 1.5 months old male white sultan chick who I've always suspected to have some kind of foot deformity related to his extra toes and slight limp. Today while holding him I noticed that the side of his one foot has a slightly redder, firm-ish flesh mass, where the foot feathers grow...
Had some days old chicks come in the mail yesterday, all immediately caught onto eating and drinking on their own and were lively except for one, it was the usual symptoms of acting lethargic and weak.
I've separated her in a small box over night to avoid trampling, and have tried to feed her...
This is the first chick that I received, who has already grown up to be a flighty and quite aggressive and jealous lady:
Based on her colors as a baby she matched silver gray dorking, but not so much her adult colors (6 months old)
And this is the second chick I received about a week ago...
Hello, just had some chicks come in the mail today, and a weak male white sultan chick that was revived started to harass his broodmates..
He was pecked on the eye because of his black eye on light colored fur, and it seems to be irritated because he constantly shakes his head and cries out...
I am wondering what the maximum amount of time is to catch and treat pasty butt until it becomes lethal to the chick. Just woke up today and found one chick squatting down with pasty butt and quickly cleaned it off, but I wasnt sure if the problem had persisted overnight already. Since clearing...
We received these chicks from the post office today and they all seemed fine (assumed 2 days old?). My parents decided to give them some expired baby parrot feed as substitute while we went out to buy food for them; bought some small seeds and grain for parakeets as temporary food while the...