Hi, I have a black star hen who was stolen right out of the coop two and a half weeks ago while I was on vacation. My workers were taking care of them, I completely trust them, but a thief came in the night and stole one of them while leaving the other two lose after ripping off the chicken wire...
Hello! We have a hen that appears to have broken her leg directly above the hock. There is green bruising and she cannot move the leg at all - it flops completely and she doesn’t respond and grab things with that foot.
A few questions:
1) Is a splint that doesn’t cover the whole tibia worth...
Two days ago, my female coturnix fractured ( did not break thankfully! ) her left leg and I have kept her quarantined in a box. Sadly she is unable to move much, but she continues to eat, drink, lay eggs, sleep, poop...I am more on the hopeful side for her recovery.
However, around 4 hours ago...
My peachick of 4 months old suddenly has a really bent leg. It must be dislocated or broken or something because it’s REALLY bent. Wasn’t like this yesterday; seemingly just happened this morning or overnight. It was recently moved to a wire cage. Could that have anything to do with the problem...
Hi. I have 6 Pekin ducklings.they are only 3 weeks old.all of a sudden one of my ducklings had trouble with walking because it's right leg was tangled...when I researched about this ,I came to know it was niacin deficiency....but unfortunately I didn't know that before...I thought the leg would...
I have a duck that has been limping for a couple days, I took her in and isolated her from the rest of the flock.. she was a able to stand on one leg but today she was only laying down. Nothing is visibly wrong that I can tell.. could a rooster do this from trying to mount her? Anything I should...