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Thanks for your responses. It has been a tough year for the flock. We tried ordering new chicks from Meyer Hatchery, and I planned to vaccinate them myself because of our experience. They kept sending boxes of dead chicks so I gave up. I'm afraid we just have one bird right now. We only had...

It would appear that Eggcessive was right. When this all began, it appeared that her curled toes were the only symptoms she was having. Later this week, she started to lose energy. I fed her directly to ensure she had food and water because I thought she simply couldn't reach the food and...

Her energy appears to be winding down. She doesn't make much of a fuss anymore when I give her droplets of electrolyte water, dissolved food and vitamins. She appears to be winding down. Bummer. I'll keep trying to help her but it appears that she is not recovering from her condition. Just...

She is a bundle of energy, even with the misshapen hock. I've had to abandon her sling as she kept flinging herself out of it. I also took her cardboard boots off as I noticed they were no longer actually reshaping her toes. I had some florist wire, and I shaped those into boots for her. I...

Our silkie's condition is about the same. She won't put weight on her hocks. I haven't taken her boot off to see if that is having any effect on her curled hocks yet. I figured that would take at least several days to reshape her feet, maybe longer. What I would really like to know if I'm...

I've created a sling out of 1/2 inch pvc pipe and part of an old towel so she can be upright. I also attached some cardboard to her feet to try and straighten those toes. I'll leave those on for several days and keep giving her the vitamins, water and food. I'll keep you updated on her...

I've posted a few pictures of the silkie chicken "standing" while I'm holding her. I took a video as well, but I can't post it as a file to the forum. I posted it on YouTube and posted the link below. I think the video gives a better sense of how she's acting than the pictures. Here's a...

Hello Everyone, I could use a bit of advice. We have a silkie chicken that is about 2 months old. She has long had one toe that was curled, but a few days ago she was no longer able to walk. Other than her one curled toe, she was perfectly mobile before. Looking more closely at her feet, it...

They’ve been eating tractor supply company layer pellets. I supplement with veggies that are past their prime and the scraps from cooking dinner.

It actually looked quite a bit like those pictures. I would only add that my rooster looked worse. The tumor/tongue--whatever it was--was even bigger. My rooster couldn't even pick his head up all the way. If anybody else has this issue, I guess you can say it's a salivary gland infection or...

I would add, that this happened very quickly. He looked fine on Thursday when I went to collect eggs, and on Friday the tissue had swollen to absurd proportions.

I got a call from the vet a few minutes ago. He discovered the problem. He said that it was a infected salivary gland. He said it was the worst he had ever seen. The tissue had swollen so much that it filled his entire beak. He said it was probably just a fluke, but he did say that it is...

I just remembered that he did have wry neck a few weeks after he was hatched. I gave him some vitamin supplements and it cleared up a couple of weeks later. He hasn't shown any wry neck symptoms now for months.

I did not take any pictures. It was so large I thought that the gizzard and esophagus had come out. The vet said that was not the case; it was "just" the esophagus. It was pretty gross. I thought of taking pictures, but I didn't want to be confronted with it on a regular basis. I don't...

Hello Everyone, I tried looking in the forum for an answer to this one, but I couldn't find anything. I went to collect eggs today and noticed that one of my chickens had a large, bulbous mass on its face. I went in to collect him--it was a rooster--and that's when I figured out that thing...