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HUH. I goofed... it's just so hard to tell with these little mutts... but the "she" has turned out to be a HE!

Success! I'm pleased to say that the chick has made a full recovery (and turns out he is probably a she! Yay!). Short version of the treatment of infected hock joint: -Separation from other chicks. I put the chick inside a 10 gallon fish tank with a metal mesh lid (available a most pet...

Update! The chick has been on the Duramycin-10 antibiotics for about six days now and he is doing much better! I put a sports tape hobble on his legs a few days ago because he seemed to be having trouble keeping his injured leg in the proper position. As of today, he was walking around with...

Those are very neat! If the issue persists I may have to do that. I am concerned because he would have a hard time regulating his temperature in one, though. So far he seems to be doing well, so we shall see!

Chick update: The little one remains by himself in a fish tank in the brooder in view of the other chicks but unable to be bulldozed by them. A local farm vet on a facebook group I'm in has been giving me advice on the treatment of the little one. She's not an official poultry vet, but she is...

Here's more pictures. I'm having a really hard time trying to see if the tendon has slipped... Also, none of my other birds have shown issues like this before. The chick CAN move on the leg. He can bend it to sleep or stand up, he just hobbles a lot. I picked him up and ran his leg...

Hi all, I put this in the wrong forum at first, so apologies for the obnoxious posting. (pics from five days ago) I have a chick that hatched a few weeks ago and he was having a hard time from the get-go. He wouldn't eat or drink, but I gave him a lot of attention and he was doing just...