I posted a few days ago in the chick forum, but his leg is getting worse. At first it looked like splayed leg, but now I know for sure it is not. His leg is twisted outward and starting to face backwards. It gets worse everyday. He can't walk at all without a brace. He has had a rubber band...
Hi again!
Okay the same chick that had the dried egg goo stuck to it now seems to have leg problems. We noticed that it was holding its legs kind of splayed out. We have had a couple chicks that had splayed legs so we made him the same kind of band aid brace. It has been a few days and his legs...
Hi again!
I have a polish chick that just hatched this morning that didn't seem to be doing as good as the rest. He mostly just stands with his eyes closed. When I picked him up I noticed that he had a pile of dried on goo and small pieces of shell stuck to his navel. I wasn't sure if I should...
Hi, I have a Polish hen that keeps getting sick. I think she is about 5 or 6 years old. She just wants to stand puffed up with her eyes closed. she was just fine yesterday running around digging and jumping on things.but this morning when I was letting her out of her coop she was quiet and slow...
We hatched cochins about 2 and a half weeks ago. At about two days old I noticed one holds his head weirdly and the back of his head looks a bit to large. It is hard like the rest of his skull. It is a lot more noticeable now, and it seems almost see-through when he stands under a light. He is...
We had a batch of cochins hatch last night. After a little while we noticed that two of them couldn't stand, they just flailed their legs in front of themselves. we gave them the braces like for straddled legs and put them in little sock cups to keep their legs under them. This morning, one of...