He had poult food as a baby and than decided to be a chicken and now he eats good quality chicken food. His legs are very swollen. He can walk a little but it's almost like it's too painful
My broad breasted turkey just started to not be able to walk. I was planning on eating him but I want to make sure this isn't some sickness. She can walk a little but than falls over. Video
Video for backyard chickens. Turkey can't walk
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My broad breasted turkey just started to not be able to walk. I was planning on eating him but I want to make sure this isn't some sickness. She can walk a little but than falls over. Video
Video for backyard chickens. Turkey can't walk
https://www.instagram.com/p/CTcZ4M4nPeW/?utm_medium=share_sheet
I wasn't planning a necropsy just yet but I'll definitely do that if I have another one randomly dies.. I was planning on just looking for basic signs and preserving a wing and some feathers for remembrance.
One of my Easter eggers was perfectly healthy and fine this morning about tonight I noticed her unable to balance and she just fell over dead. Is this something I should be concerned about? I felt her and she seemed skinny and fragile
This morning she seems back to normal. Her legs are still greyish but they're turning back. I think she might've gotten bitten or poisoned. I looked all over for snake bites yesterday but couldn't find anything but they heal so fast that it could have already been closed up.
She’s separated inside. She’s eating and drinking. I don’t see any swelling in her legs but they are the wrong color and are grayish brown when they normally are bright orange. There’s many rattlesnakes and copperheads here so I’m kind of concerned about something might’ve bitten her.
My Rouen Clair, (Jeffrey) suddenly stopped walking today. I checked her all over for bites and could only find some pulled feathers but I don’t know if those were there before. She started walking funny yesterday but I thought it was a burr this morning she couldn’t even walk out of the pen. She...