injured chick

  1. LiizardWiitch

    Chick acting off

    I have a silkie chick that Is acting off. This has started in the last few days. She tries her very best to keep up with the rest of the chicks and she is moving around to eat and drink, scratching in the bedding etc. But I've noticed she cannot fully lift up her neck. I'm not sure if I'm...
  2. H

    Having trouble with chicks that have splayed leg

    Hello, I have 6 ~2.5 week old chicks, with 3 breed total in a brooder. I have 2 lavender Orpington in the mix, which both looked and seemed perfectly healthy when I got them, but a few days ago I noticed they were both having some trouble standing and walking. I did a little research, and I...
  3. dublinducks

    Silkie Hen Feathers Strangulated Chick Leg - Unsure How to Proceed

    We have two silkie hens who are currently co-raising two chicks together (also silkies). Yesterday I heard a chick screaming and ran in to find one hen walking around with a baby stuck to her, flopping the chick around as she moved. I grabbed him, ripped him off the Mom, and raced him inside to...
  4. Kiwi_The__arnevelder

    Day old chick attacked by other hens and can't see

    This morning i went to check if my bantam chicks had hatched since i was expecting them to and i found a day old chick that has been attacked and cannot see! 😰 i am extremely devastated His both eyes are swollen and had also been missing some feathers on it's neck. Thankfully the good news is...
  5. Nona_1808

    5 week chick broken leg joint healed crooked.

    Hello, I took my chick to the vet but was too late. We couldn’t take her sooner cuz of money issues. I didn’t want to put her down since she was healthy besides the leg and vet said she wasn’t in pain. We’d just have to keep an eye on her which I don’t mind, I wanna give her a happy adult...
  6. H

    Broody Hen pecked her chicks?!

    I have a hen who just hatched two chicks yesterday. She has hatched many chicks for me before and been one of the best mommas. But when I checked on them in the afternoon both chicks had head injuries like she had pecked them! They were in a brooder box inside, so no predators. Do you think the...
  7. NinjaGamer2022

    Emergency - Baby chick with (Fermented feed?) stuck in nose and possibly infected

    Day before yesterday (possibly the day before that) I noticed my baby polish chick was acting weird (eyes half open), I feared it didn't have enough water so I filled the waterer with sugar water. Then later on I noticed one side of it's nose had stuff in it. I washed off what I could (I did not...
  8. PiedPiperDucklings

    Broken Thigh Baby Chick

    One of the chicks fell and broke her leg. It's broken up in the fluffy part, chicken anatomy diagrams say it's her thigh. It's dangling and flopping, she keeps twisting it at the break so I'm holding her. She can't seem to move that leg. No swelling that I can see, and no blood. I'm not sure...
  9. F

    Injured chick leg. PLEASE HELP

    Hi I’m new to raising backyard chickens. I incubated for the first time and half the eggs hatched. I have three cute polish and the rest of the eggs didn’t hatch even after 22 days and the ones that piped got shrink wrapped because I took chicks out and the last one was the polish had its leg...
  10. S

    Chick down

    Found chick down in brooder with other chicks running over her! All are 7 days old. Can’t stand, not fluttering wings as usual. Had stuff stuck on her back from being trampled. Gave her egg yolk, warm bath with tiny amt of dawn dish soap, gentle rinse & blow dry, followed by electrolytes &...
  11. J

    Help! Quail Chick with injured leg

    I have a week old quail chick who yesterday started limping. I now believe he jumped and landed weird. I don’t think it is spradde: neither joint is swollen, couldn’t feel a slipped tendon, looks the same as each other and the other chicks. His right leg is not pointing straight but instead to...
  12. 1Crzychknlady

    Help with my cream legbar who was attacked by other chicks

    I have 6 chicks (about 6ish weeks olds) in a separate area of our coop that just transitioned there a few days ago from their brooder. Two days ago I was checking on the chicks that I found that all the feathers on our cream legbar’s back had been pecked off and the other chicks also had pecked...
  13. T

    2 week old guinea chick fell from high place

    One of my 2 week old guinea keets fell from about 2 to 3 feet while I was transferring them to a warmer spot. He landed on his belly and was initially fine, but had trouble standing. He was on his side kicking his legs, but I picked him up and he's now sitting under my hand. I'm worried that he...
  14. C

    HELP! chick scalped & skull exposed (GRAPHIC)

    My hen hatched some chicks the other day without us knowing. When we saw her with them we started scanning the yard for any that might have gotten stuck anywhere and we found a little one standing on top of a wood pile super still and barely chirping. I nudged them a little and they gave some...
  15. missdelia

    HELP WITH PECKED HEAD!! (GRAPHIC PICS...)

    Hi. One of my 3 mo old chicks was pecked badly by one of our adult chickens and her head is a mess! I didn't actually take any pics of the first day - I was too upset and just read on here what to do and got her through the first few days (this happened Saturday 7/17 - 6 days ago). We kept her...
  16. K

    Pecking wound

    Ive got a month old chick that was so severely pecked i didn't think she would live. Its been 9 days and somehow she is 100%. Completely normal. Wound seems to be healing up but there's this protruding mass that im concerned about. I was afraid to disturb it given how well she is doing but also...
  17. N

    2week old chick failing to thrive?

    Hey guys, So I’ve raised abandoned chicks before, ones that the hen has pushed out or left behind, including one with a leg injury last year. So when I found my hen had left behind one of her chicks and it had trouble standing/walking (it seemed weak on one side, but it was cold when I found it...
  18. chickenchicklady

    Day old chick can’t walk

    Hi friends! I got day old chicks today from my local farm store. All of the chickens but one is fine. They’re all active, eating and drinking, but I have one light Brahma who cannot walk, and won’t eat or drink. She chirps, but nothing else. When I first put her in the brooder, she would kind of...
  19. T

    Gosling injured during hatching

    I had already made a post about this in rhe emergency section and I was suggested to try posting here too to see if anyone has advice. So I am just going yo post exactly what I said before. Hello this is my first time posting here. I have been around this site before looking at tips and advice...
  20. T

    Gosling injured during hatching

    Hello this is my first time posting here. I have been around this site before looking at tips and advice, but right now I need some immediate help. Some time very late last night while one of my goslings was hatching this one got pretty injured. When I checked on it it was bleeding from...
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