I am new to having chickens, raised nineteen from eggs and everything was going great. I get around 7-9 eggs a day and haven’t had any problems. They are all over a year old now.
One of my hens won’t walk. It started yesterday and I noticed she flops and hops on her right leg and won’t use her...
My moms hen is refusing to use her legs. We assumed she was egg bound, soaked her and she did lay a soft shell egg. But she hasn’t improved since, she’s eating and she will drag herself around but still won’t walk. She’s separated from the flock in the house, getting 3 warm soaks a day, being...
On Monday afternoon my husband came home from work to find our Japanese black tail Claire laying awkwardly in the coop. He thought maybe she had been injured although aside from our Rooster Ivan, Claire is actually top of the pecking order of our hens. We have 4 other hens besides Claire (2...