chick leg injury

  1. newchickychick

    2+ week old Silkie - limping

    Hello all! We're not sure how it happened, but today we got up to our little Splash 2 week old Silkie chick limping. There is no OBVIOUS sign of injury. I tenderly felt both legs and they feel similar, yet its right leg is just limp when the chick is lifted up. It doesn't seem to want to put any...
  2. N

    5 week old chick flew off hand & hurt its leg - help please

    Hi, I have a 5 week old araucana chick who is very small for its age. About 4 days ago I was holding it less than a foot above the brooder and it flew off my hand, hit the brooder plate and landed on its side and hurt its leg. I know it hurt its leg because it didn't get up - I put it back on...
  3. P

    Chicks leg injury holds one leg up

    Is there anything we can do?
  4. Bgshore

    Help! Scabs, lice, foot injuries... Oh my

    Hello everyone, I have had chickens for about 3 years, no issues and within a week I've got 3 chickens who are not doing so well. One has bumblefoot, which I am treating, but the other two in kind of lost on how are the best ways to help them. The first is Franny, she injured her right...
  5. C

    Two week old chick with dislocated hip?

    I have a two week old chick that I have been doing everything I can think of for. I’ve been reading so many other posts but figured I should just write my own. For context my father passed away in November and he had a flock of chickens that needed rehoming so me and my siblings took them on. We...
  6. CloneFly

    Injured Chick- please help

    Hello all, I have a 1 day old baby button quail with a leg injury. I had a staggered hatch and with only 3 eggs left in the incubator, one of the cats decided this morning it was high time to send the whole thing crashing to the floor (along with my mother's laptop..) The crash woke me up and I...
  7. L

    Two Week Old Chick Limping w/ Swollen Red Joint

    Hi there folks, So I’m new to chicks, but not chickens in general. I recently received some day old chicks by mail. I lost a Speckled Sussex without much warning on day three after receiving them. Today makes two weeks and three days since these girls (hopefully girls) were hatched. Just a few...
  8. Danger96

    Chicken with injured leg

    Yesterday, I found one of my hen hanging upside down with her left leg caught in a rope, I still can’t figure out how but the rope has been removed. It was in teens, we cut her down and she was in shock. We wrapped her in a blanket, she was stiff and so cold and exhausted so we brought her...
  9. Spellbound4u

    Chick with dislocated knee or 1 splayed leg??

    I got a chick from a friend at 4 days old. She seemed to think the knee was dislocated so she put the leg in a splint. We kept it on for a week and the chick didn't use the leg much but still got around. When we took it off the chick had a cast sore but not unmanageable. Now the leg is kinda...
  10. Spellbound4u

    3 day old chick in a leg splint

    So a veterinarian friend of mine dropped off a 3 day old chick with me that she splinted the leg on. She came across it in a feed store and they were going to euthanize it. I'm not exactly sure what is wrong with it. It's eating and drinking and I keep moving it to be near the food and water. It...
  11. B

    Week old baby chick leg issue

    I have an ayam cemani chick who is a week old and last night I saw it holding its left leg up all the way to its body . So I gave it a nudge and it limos bad. It wasn’t like that yesterday morning . Any idea what it could be? I felt both legs over really well and tugged both very gently to make...
  12. B

    Chick with hurt leg

    Hello, so I have a chick that is I think a runt (shes growing slowly and isn't nearly as active as the other chicks) and she has been limping for about 2 weeks now. I noticed one day she was limping and ever since she has been limping and struggling to walk/balance (about 2 weeks later still)...
  13. alexthefarmlady

    Baby chicken in bad shape please help

    I went to my farm Feed store today and I realize a baby chicken with a injured leg so I asked to see it and I didn’t think it was this bad Any suggestions of what I should do . I take care of injured animals all the time and But not baby chicks so I’m kinda worried . Also if anyone can tell...
  14. C

    NEED HELP: baby chick can’t walk on one leg

    my baby chicken hatched 2 days ago. I forgot to take out the egg tray before lock down and I found her stuck in between the egg tray and the wall with her leg in an awkward position. I took out the egg tray and left her and the eggs in there. Now she is in the brooder and she can’t walk. It’s...
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