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Thread is a little old and I hope its doing ok, but I had a baby chicken like this too. I found hand feeding it yolk with a syringe helped give it a boost and it eventually turned out ok. Just gotta be patient and feed it 1 drop at a time.

looks a little bent over but could just be the photo timing. I think its a barred rock or looks like my Plymouth rocks anyways. My latest generation had a runt that always looked sluggish and was sleeping 24/7 and turned out to be the loudest naughtiest rooster I have ever seen. Some chickens...

I gave mine crushed mealworms and mozzarella cheese. Anything new that wasnt their every day feed was met with caution, but once 1 bird eats it the rest will come running. I gave my original 2 generations worms I dug up but stopped doing that, no particular reason but its an option if you wanna...

I agree with with everyone said but I'll add my own experience for question 1. In my latest generation I had 7 chickens; 6 normal chickens and one that was almost 1/3rd the size of them, it was pretty weak, small, frail, whatever you cant to call it. Despite the size difference, its sisters...

heh, its unusual for sure but Ive gotten used to his eye and I think he has too. Most importantly hes going to live many many years to torture me with his crowing..just kidding, hes my little baby

Yea hes definitely adjusted to life with one eye

My rooster gets spooked by a feather falling off his body, could be anything haha..

Most recent photo of peep. There's still an "eye" in there, its not a totally empty socket but the infection seems to have gone away now. He's obviously still blind in that eye. I used prescription strength tobramycin ophthalmic solution, USP .3%. Apparently tractor supply sells it but looks...

i also have a bit of an egg eater situation. making sure the nest box is full of hay helps but im considering a roll away system where the nest floor is slightly slanted and the egg rolls to a protected area like below https://a.co/d/8KCXi5s edit: if you dont wanna go with the roll away system...

good read and I like the sweater, very fashionable

Vet visit was the other day, The vet said a couple of things; he's likely blind in that eye which I suspected, the eye might have an ulcer in it or a "contained" infection, but they are unsure. We both agreed to just leave it as is instead of removing it, unless it starts to spread. The vet said...

I feel bad when I have to buy eggs from the store when I have 20 hens outside snacking away while barely laying in the winter :lol:

Also make sure you maintain the nest box(s), my girls don't like the ones that are missing hay. Also speaking of missing hay, why do you think the boxes are missing hay? *stares at the chickens kicking hay out of them*

Could have just been a bad landing, but even my consistent girls have slowed down, partly due to molting, colder weather and shorter days.

Very nice, congratulations!

Acre4Me above me hit everything on the head that I would say, only thing I would add is if they are of age to lay then maybe they are laying in a place you cant see and possibly eating their own eggs. If you've seen them lay before but now all of a sudden they stopped, look around for either a...

I have a really large chicken coop, could probably hold 30+ chickens but houses 20 at the moment. Even with plenty of room for everyone to spread out, quite a few like to sleep very very close to each other. After raising chickens for a couple years now, I don't think they have any concept of...

I scheduled a vet visit for him in 10 days, cost was 82 dollars for the generic visit without meds, extras etc. Will let you guys know what happens, just thought I would include the cost incase someone googles this in 5 years and are pricing things out.

Yea I will update you guys. At this point I've done so much googling trying to figure out what's wrong and realistically that's not going to get me anywhere, I just need a trained person to look at him. I just want him to live a happy life

I'm going to take him to a vet and see what they think. There's an avian one by me that seems like it has ok reviews and the worst they tell me is its best to leave it alone and he just goes on with his life with vision in one eye. I think hes gotten pretty used to it by now anyways.