help chick issue

So I recently got 4 chickens from a friends mom and one of the chickens walk with a limp. It only leans on it for a short time when ever it walks. I do not know if anything has happened to it but it looked alot weaker than the other 3 when it hatched. It doesnt move around as much as the other...

Hello, So i just bought a couple of baby chicks from north 40 and one of them has poop sticking to its butt and since im not new to this whole chick thing i decided to ask if its fatal to her on here and how i can fix it! Thank you! Sincerely, ChikarooMydoo

I’m beating myself up right now while cleaning off pasty butt, I think I took the umbilical cord scab off. What do I do?! Please help I don’t want my babies to die. Is there anything I could put on it? It’s not bleeding but I feel AWFUL.

My wife and I are new to chickens. Our flock is doing great, except our Plymouth Rock. She’s definitely not growing like the other chickens. We do see her eat and drink a bunch and her feces/urine is normal. She just doesn’t move a lot. It looks as if she is constantly falling asleep. While the...

My neighbors dog attacked my 3 weeks old baby chicks. And few are alive but they are puffed up! Is there anything we can do to save them! I really want to help them. Can’t figure out what’s wrong with them. Please help.

I'm a first timer raising chicks. I bought 3 Rhode Island Reds from my local feed store 3 weeks ago. A few days after I bought the 3, I went back and got one more (different breed, it's black, IDK what it is) from the same feed store. About 4 days ago I noticed one of the Reds was acting...

my chick stopped zipping or the shell was too hard for her to zip it all the way. The membrane is now yellow and kind of dry, she started zipping 24 hours ago, and kept trying to kick out. Now it feels like the shell is stuck to her! What do I do?! I finished the zip for her and put her back in...

Howdy. This morning I went to check on my my flock and I noticed one of my Polish chicks neck is turned almost all the way around, with the bottom of her beak facing upwards. Her head is resting on the ground while she was standing. I have 2 other Polish, an Amaurcana and a Barred Rock, all fine...

I am watching my neighbor’s chickens and their duck showed me some eggs. I do have chickens but never hatched them from eggs. I found a hen laying on some eggs and one hatched. Two hours later one more hatched. One egg is unfertilized, another is uncertain, and the third one is hatching. Two...

Hi! I’m Sue and I recently got 4 chickens. They are all adults. But I need help please! One of the chickens has swollen feet. We read about bumble foot but she does not have scabs at the bottom of her feet. Nevertheless I have been soaking her feet every day and applying anitfungal medication (...

I just got a Some chicks at the local feed store yesterday they were all fine peeping like normal and doing normal chick things but today (the next day) one of them a crested polish is suddenly not doing to hot. It won’t stand like normal and had its eyes closed all the time aside from once in a...

Hey all, I'm new to raising baby chicks. I just hatched out 7 Lavender Orpington chicks. They are 5 days old. One chick I thought had spraddle leg. But she holds her legs under her fine, but when she walks she bulldozes forward and can't stay upright very long without shaking. Her neck is normal...