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I have a 3X3 wire cage that I use to introduce or reintroduce injured or new chicks. They stay in there until the others seem to ignore them and then slowly let them have contact. full process takes 2 to 4 weeks.

I had a chicken who got attacked by a rat and lost half her foot, we trimmed off the damaged area and covered it with second skin. She too had very week legs as it healed. I read here somewhere to exercise a chick's legs by pushing it up to her body and then extending it ell the way out ten...

I have a 12 week old polish crested chick that seems to be having a seizure about once a week. Her head goes all the way back on her back and her tail feathers flair out. She doesn't seem to have any problem breathing and it goes away in about 15 to 30 minutes. Afterward she seems to have a hard...

In the past 1 1/2 years I have noticed that a pullet will seem to be ill, in that it will start standing around with its head under it wing, no energy, not eating much. If I let the illness run it self out, the chick dies. If I put it on antibiotics for a few days, it normally recovers. So I...

Definately not, I don't think she would be able to walk now if it was.

Strange outcome for a 6 week old Welsummer, at 6 weeks we found her in the brooder with her legs splayed front and back. She didn't seem to want to use her right leg but thought we would try a leg band and see if she would respond. After about a week she started sitting on her legs, but now both...

Hi there, I have a little D'Uccle that wanted to hatch eggs, so I gave her 3 eggs. She did not spend a lot of time on them and I know that whole days went by and she did not sit on them. But at at day 21, 2 eggs hatched, really cute kids, then on day 24, the 3rd hatched. Do not give up and give...

My name is Larry and my wife and I started raising chickens in June of 2012. We started with a menagerie of Road Island Reds, New Hampshire Reds, White Leghorns, a D"Eccl, and 2 Bantam Cochin's (which ended up being roosters). My daughter decided that was not enough for us and gave us 2 Silver...