Sounds like exactly what happened to one of my Millies, no injury's, no disease that I can see after over a week of quarantine and close watch. She's eating and drinking (I have been feeding her the Rickets Diet to see if that helped, besides for the fact that she loves it I haven't noticed any...
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Ok, I got the Ricket's diet info and will try that tonight, I had looked at Rickets as a possible cause at first but thought my chick was too old for that, at this point though it's certainly worth a shot!
The good thing about it is you can feed her the rickets diet and...
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I'm wondering about rickets...an illness where they cannot process calcium to make vitamin d...pls look it up as I'm sure I slaughtered the definition...anyhoo my pullet had issues with her leg(s) where she would high step like she was walking over a downed stick w/each step, which...
It seems like it's more of a neurological or nerve issue? She seems to be using her wings to shuffle around a bit and is using her legs a little too, just not to stand up. Would you recommend the B vitamin WHILE still doing the Sav-a-Chick?
Thanks for the help so far..... the chick in question came from my parent's, right next door to me, we hatched two eggs from this group and the other chick is fine. (Although we have in the past questioned the overall health of those chickens, they are not the breed we normally raise.) I have...
Five days ago I discovered one of our two month only Millie Fleurs squacking and apparently unable to walk. I thought perhaps her leg was broken but she is in a pen with only one other Millie & a Bantam hen, so that didn't seem likely. When I took her out I saw that she wasn't standing on...