birth defect

I had a very successful hatch so far but one of my chicks (the last one to pip) was having trouble and making no progress so I stepped in to help (gently, carefully with all precautions taken of course). When he was almost out of the shell, I noticed one of the feet had all of the toes shorter...

Just yesterday I noticed this week or so old (roughly) duckling of mine has no tail. Thoughts? i will try to add pics later

Hello Everyone, I had a baby chick hatch yesterday and it came out of the shell with these burn marks?? or peeled off cheeks?? I am attaching a picture, it is on both sides of chicky’s face. I feel so bad for this little chicky, mother hen is neglecting and pecking at it. What should I do? Is...

I'm not sure if this has been talked about, but one of my chickens acts in an unusual way to the others. We've had the chickens for about a year now and I hadn't noticed until the past 2 ish months. One of my hens acts incredibly strang, she walks fine, eats fine, and as far as I know, Lays...

(First paragraph is about hatching process of all the eggs, second paragraph talks about the duckling in need) So, I ordered my duck eggs from Metzer farms (First time hatching or owning ducks) on July 1st and received them late on July 6th or 7th. On Monday, August 3rd (about 28 days), most of...

Hi, so I know this is a website about/for chickens, but I thought that similar principles applied to chicks apply when it comes to physical defects in keets. Just got 10 Pearl Guinea keets today and noticed that one of them has a messed up leg, which juts out sideways as opposed to straight up...

I just rescued a 5 week old chicken. They said he had untreated splayed leg however if it is, it is the worse splayed leg I’ve seen. Can you confirm diagnosis and is it too late for treatment?

So my baby finally had ducklings! 2 in fact ! But we noticed one of them..is not right. He CANNOT walk, he falls over. sometimes on his back, whenever he tries he just falls over. but i noticed he shakes whenever he puts weights on his legs, Even so when he drinks water he tends to have a...

Hi lovely people! 4 weeks ago yesterday I hatched out a beautiful little Muscovy duckling. He was from a batch of double yolkers that I was trying to hatch, and as the only single he was the only one that survived. He was malpositioned and did externally pip, but I had to get him out of the egg...

Several months ago I raised a Pekin duckling in my room. He's grown relatively normally (other than the fact that he is freakishly large,) but as soon as his feathers started coming in, I noticed a very strange group of feathers. On the top of his tail, there was a compact group of soft...

She doesn't seem to be able to walk ! She was fine at first when she hatched out . I call her Shelby because she reminds me of the struggle that Shelby faced in Steele Magnolias! She can drink a little , But I had to seperate her from the rest of the chicks because she isnt responding well with...

I have a Muscovy duck that seems to have broken wings or were disfigured somehow & his brother seems to have the same problem with one. These ducks had a lot of problems as babies with the mother leaving them & almost drowning. I'm not sure how or when this happened or how to treat it? I'd...