I have a maybe 5-6 ish week old chicken and two nights ago I noticed she was walking super weird! It was obviously really hard for her and her legs were completely straightening and she was struggling to balance and the her hocks would bend in the exact wrong direction. I separated her but kept...
Hey guys- I have about a 4-5wk old gosling that had what we thought was a niacin deficiency. We have her in a b complex as well as vitamin r and selenium. We now know there’s more to it. She started with her leg laying behind her constant my and bearing no weight but now after 2 weeks of. O...
My Turkey has a possible dislocation of his hock. Does anyone know if this could be fixed? He is loved very much and we don’t want to lose him. Please help if you can.
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...
Hi all! My runner drake dislocated his hock yesterday. I was standing there when it happened. He was laying down and stretched his leg behind him and the leg then stayed that way when he tried to get up. I picked him up to try to see what the problem was and I felt the hock pop back in.
I took...
To begin: I am a Peace Corps volunteer trying to help a local community member out with his turkey population (it's a long story.) We're operating with low quality or handmade equipment, We've done three rounds of incubations: the last two had issues including power outages and some kind of...
hen was injured escaping from predator lower leg hock and claw seem dislocated and can’t move foot/claw. Hock seems loose from thigh. Thigh area seems fine bone in hock intact. No obvious trauma won’t stand on it and just lets it hang. She’s eating and drinking and laying fine. Anyone have any...