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I must admit I had one last year that pipped outside the air cel and we helped him hatch out. At first we were so excited that we got him out without damaging him, however over the course of his good but relatively short life he presented with a number of issues: a curled toe (which we were...

No, it's winter here! Not freezing where we live, but in the 40s at night. She's in the bathroom at the moment for warmth.

Hi everybody, I'm trying to treat my 18 week old pullet Pancake Junior (daughter of Pancake - named for how flat she became when brooding the eggs!), PJ is the third pullet yet to come down sick with a respiratory virus. I had the vet autopsy the previous one and he thought it was coryza...

Hi there, I've come across some mixed responses to this topic. We had a staggered set of hatchings - three chicks at first (one of which got killed - we don't know by whom as there were a few adults with access at that time); another chick three days later (that chick was also injured but I've...

Hi Everybody, this is a really happy story I just had to tell it. But first, some back story: this past week we had some staggered hatchings, due to eggs being left under some broody hens while we were away. We didn't really want new ones, but didn't have the heart to destroy the eggs after...

Personally I wouldn't get too excited about that - but you need to weigh it against risks/ likelihoods/ recent changes with your flock. Is this an animal that is new to your flock, who could be bringing this from someplace else? If Yes, then I would begin treating. My experience with Scaly Leg...

Hi there, I posted back into this thread about 10 weeks ago with a similar issue, I have now a 12 week old silkie, *one* of her feet looks like your chick's left foot - curled around in a swirly pattern, but definitely walking on toes, not knuckles. With one good foot, and one curled one, she...

Hi all, I wonder if any of you have experienced crop problems with a young chick before. My vet told me to apply a crop bra (which we're doing) and gave her an injection of a motility drug, this seemed to clear it a little yesterday but again this morning (after 12 hours) it isn't fully cleared...

foxes are evil! we lost 3 roosters about 10 months ago, even though we were actually having difficulties with them, it was awful finding one of the roosters dead in the paddock (the other two just feathers). Many of us have 'been there, done that'. so sorry good luck with the new coop

You will notice I am a 'new egg' so others may have more info than I do, it was hard to find info on whether the different poxes are the same strains of a single virus, different viruses, or what. What I can just share is that the contagion was incredibly uneven: my grandmama hen (6 years old)...

If it's fowl pox - we had it externally and it was no problem. But then my oldest hen got the wet (internal) kind, she developed all the cheesy stuff in her mouth everybody writes about. We held our breath, gave vitamins and electrolytes and finally broad spectrum antibiotic in an eye dropper...

Katsmajic, so sorry about your problems! We had a bad case of the scaly leg mites about 6 months ago, what I learned was that this is a slow issue - the mites were slow to leave, and I think they are slow to come in. We were lucky as we had a separate house and were able to take the single...

Hi henny Penny, you posted a pic nearly 4 years ago, a little white chick with twisted toes. Do you remember? anyway, I wonder what ended up happening with that chicken - I have one with the exact same looking twisted toes! I have tried splinting, attaching to cardboard - she either picks it...

wow, amazing how these little guys bounce back! She was a sleepy lethargic mess this morning, somehow she got some wet chick starter into herself, now she is running around like crazy! Fixing the (one) injured curly toe seems to help her balance better and is slowly correcting the splay (it...

thank you, i used vet wrap and followed the picture, but she is distressed and now not eating or taking any liquids (I think she toppled over many times in the night - and the efforts to right herself have exhausted her). She is 72 hours old just now, I have some electrolytes, do I eye-dropper...

Hi everybody, this chick injured herself coming out of the egg (she came out 'butt first' from the pointy end of the egg). we feel she's lucky to have survived, however she injured a toe (we have now splinted it), and the lack of a working toe has caused her to spraddle a little. Here's the...

thanks Yes we did finally get ahold of some sulphur, and Yes it was from a fodder store. She's now been integrated with the flock for over a month and, fingers crossed, I think we might have beaten it!! thanks for your reply

Hi there, we're incubating chicks for the first time, for my son's school project (we've raised many day olds and have our own flock so these will be well loved and cared for chicks). However the timing is tricky. Friday (when school closes for the weekend) is day 18, Monday, our next chance...

Hi all, I'm pretty new to BYC but yes we brought four hens home about a month ago and one of them has this. We isolated her pronto, into her own shed. Since then I've been treating her almost every other night with Vaseline and/ or cooking oil. It's working, I can see new scales coming...