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    Bad leg on a baby chick

    Thanks for the advice. I tried shooting video to give a better look, but even a short shot was too large a file. We'll watch her today and see if we need to change strategy.
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    Bad leg on a baby chick

    The wife had the chick standing better this am than last night. We've kept her seperate from the other chicks since she kept falling over and getting run over by them. She didn't find any vetwrap so we're staying with the rubber band and short straw, at least for now. The rubber band didn't...
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    Bad leg on a baby chick

    Here's a look at the chick. The good leg is to the left and the bad leg is to the right and goes back.
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    Bad leg on a baby chick

    The wife found a fix on-line. It involves putting a small rubber band through a short section of drinking straw and putting the chick's legs through the rubber band loops. The pic I have here was the first try. Version 2 was a slightly longer section of straw and seems to work better. There may...
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    Bad leg on a baby chick

    The wife stopped by the feedstore for something and "just stopped to look at the chicks". Yea you guessed it...she brought some home. There was a freebie chick thrown in that has a bad leg. The cashier said it was fixable...I'm just not sure how. She just sits on the floor paddling with the good...
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    Young hen got ganged up on...she's in bad shape

    We had to leave town suddenly for a funeral and when we came back our young Brahma hen looked rough. My wife lined up help with good instructions and we were only out of town a couple days, but that was apparently too much. When we got home she was missing feathers on her neck and upper back and...
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    Texas

    Texas Hill Country (Canyon Lake) here. Forgive me I didn't see this earlier. We're still kinda new to the chicken world. We got our first two (1 year old~ Red Shavers I think) about a year ago. Then we were given four chicks (2-Easter Eggers, 1-Brahma, 1-Barred Rock...again I think) this Spring...
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    Lethargic chicken...and it might be spreading

    Thanks again Eggcessive. I'll cook up a egg shell omelet today. I usually save up egg shells then throw them in the oven after cooking something. I then put those in the bullet and grind them up good and sprinkle into the layer pellets. This same hen has laid some soft shell eggs in the...
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    Lethargic chicken...and it might be spreading

    I have a oyster shell out and am feeding Purina layer feed. Thanks Kathy!
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    Lethargic chicken...and it might be spreading

    Thanks Eggcessive I'll do that!
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    Lethargic chicken...and it might be spreading

    I have two hens (2 year old Red Shavers I think) and 4 chicks around three months old (2-Easter Eggers, 1-Barred Rock, 1-Brahma...again I think). About four days ago one of the hens started acting goofy. We noticed she was under a bush in our yard just standing there...for quite some time...
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    Howdy

    Thanks for the forum! We got our first two chickens about a year ago, then four more were gifted to us this spring. I've visited to learn about the hens we have and have learned a lot. Thanks!
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