#balance #mobility

I have an Americauna. Not sure her age but she is done laying so my best guess is over 3 or 4 years old. Out of nowhere yesterday she started limpin. After a couple hours it progressed to stumbling and losing balance. Like she is drunk. She loses her balance walking and sometimes just standing...

Hi everyone, I just rescued a Jumbo Pekin drake from a not so great situation. I believe he is about a year old and 9 pounds or so. He has some sort of injury to his leg(s) that we have not yet been able to fully evaluate since moving him in. This is leaving him unable to walk much at all...

I have a 9 year old (10 in spring) Barred rock hen named Willow. She's had her ups and downs with health but overall been a long lived, happy backyard bird. Yesterday she began losing her balance & losing feathers. It seems to be that her right leg is weaker then the left, not balance issues...

Hello— I’ve had three Silkie hens— two roughly 8 months old (sisters) and one nearly two years old (mother) that have developed balance issues over the last 2-3 months. They’ve all been isolated & brought inside for monitoring. The first presented sort of like wry neck, but eventually she got to...

So we have this hen (New Hampshire red) named rusty, shes one of the only 2 birds we still have left from when we got chickens again years ago. We have had her for at least 6 years, I think longer (we got Her as a chick so that’s her age). but her arthritis is acting up and it’s spread to at...

Yesterday, my three ten-week old pullets seemed fine—see attached photo. This morning, one chick is struggling to move and struggling with balance. Does Marek’s disease have a sudden onset? Do any other diagnoses come to mind? The chicks were vaccinated. I don’t know if my four adult chickens...