Our big bird is a 6 month old Buff and just this week had His tail feathers pecked out! Old Red hen is to blame, 4 year old Rhode Island. She had always been food oriented but today when feeding her meal worms thought she was going to break my skin open. So back to Big Bird....he suffers from...
Hello! So we got 2 Ayam Cemani straight run chicks. They are booth doing fine, but one of the little fellas has a crooked toe on each foot. He/she (not sure yet) is approx 3weeks old. We tried splinting with toothpicks and bandage with cardboard boot but it wiggled out of it on the firs night...
I have five little chicks That are eight days old and one of them has a twisted ankle as you can see in the pictures. He is the smallest in the brood and has a hard time walking. Should I tape his foot up? He is so tiny and sweet and I just don’t know what to do to help him! Any info...
I have a 3 day old chick that is very tired and falls asleep and its head droops even when standing up. It also has a crooked toe so is struggling to walk, and I have made a 'shoe' to fix it. Are these two related? And what can I do to help her? Thanks for any advice you can give.
This is Pip, a Cobb500 born with a Wry neck and Crooked Toe and Spraddled legs from being in the egg too long. Pip was actually incubated with a huge crack that was taped with package tape. Other cracked eggs died from mold growth.
ANYWAY, to treatment!
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Taped his crooked toe with a...