injured chicken

  1. pickledhill

    11 weeks old, still not walking

    Story: Our girl Bonita (Orpington): We made a huge mistake at the beginning by putting straw around the inside perimeter of their brooder. We quickly learned that it was too slick for their baby legs and at a few weeks old her and another chick were having a hard time walking. We took the straw...
  2. Lola Chick

    Drooping wing after chicken was trapped for 4 1/2 days

    I have one chicken that got herself trapped between our house and a structure built to hold our woodpile. I called for her and looked for her for days and assumed she must have been taken by an owl (since the crows always notify me of a hawk or eagle in our yard). I found her soft chicken voice...
  3. C

    Help I interrupted a coyote attack! Chickens in bad shape, any advice would be appreciated!!

    Hi everyone, I have 4 chickens that were attacked by a coyote last night. 2 are badly injured. (Warning. Graphic description below.) I have photos, but they are really graphic so I did not include them. Cheerio is my 4 y/o scrappy hen. It looks like the coyote took many bites and I interrupted...
  4. H

    Missing eye

    Hi all! Just woke up to find my girl looking like this! Is she missing an eye? I’m so upset I feel so awful. She’s seems fine otherwise, eating, drinking, running around. I have separated her from the others but am worried this will stress her out as she has two buddies she has a strong bond...
  5. G

    Sudden aggression toward one flock member

    Hello, this is my first post to this site though I've come here before for advice from people in similar situations. I just brought my flock to their coop from free ranging outside. I thought i heard them warn clicking earlier but when i went out i couldn't find any predators and after ten...
  6. M

    Chicken door fell on pullet need advice asap!!

    My daughter was trying to close the coop door and it fell on one of our pullets. I didn’t see it happen so not sure if hit beak or neck. She was bleeding from her nostrils it appeared and we cleaned with warm water and a tiny bit of peroxide and a tooth pick to removed the clots because she was...
  7. SuburbanRanch

    Princess, a 4 month old hen, disturbing wound

    Hello. Princess is a 4 month old Red Star. Well, that's what the lady who sold her to us said. She's the smallest of her group, all the same age. She had strange wounds on her back about 2 months ago, so we separated her from the flock, thinking it was from attacks. We just put everyone...
  8. JennyG0123

    Amputation or no amputation?

    One of our girls was attacked night before last. The culprit was not caught. But we suspect a raccoon got ahold of her. She been bitten really bad on her thigh. I’m not sure if the leg is broken or dislocated or if it’s from the bite itself but it’s completely immobile. She doesn’t flinch or...
  9. C

    Possible Prolapsed Vent with Necrotic Mass

    Hello everyone, I've been a long time lurker and am relatively new to backyard chickens. I've had my flock for a year and a half (8 birds, with 9 chicks I am integrating in next week if things go well). I have a Green Queen who seems to have a prolapsed vent with a necrotic mass. My bird's...
  10. Puddingtheamericana

    Possible wry neck has suddenly developed on old chicken

    i have made a post about our chicken midnight before, her leg had stopped working and crumpled up and she couldn’t walk and then next thing you know she’s fine. she even looks dead and i honestly don’t know how she’s still alive. anyways, this time around i open our coop grabbing some eggs, our...
  11. Danger96

    Chicken with injured leg

    Yesterday, I found one of my hen hanging upside down with her left leg caught in a rope, I still can’t figure out how but the rope has been removed. It was in teens, we cut her down and she was in shock. We wrapped her in a blanket, she was stiff and so cold and exhausted so we brought her...
  12. A

    Possum Attack(emergency sick rooster)

    So unfortunately last night, before I went to lock the chicken coop, my chickens were attacked by a possum. I currently feel so guilty for what happened to them and not being there. We were able to capture the possum and checked the chickens. There were four hens that had dead and the rooster...
  13. C

    Pullet with broken neck?

    I found one of my pullets laying on the ground the other day. She got attacked by a predator but did not die. This morning i noticed that she cannot lift her head/neck. Is there anything which can be done to help her? Or is she like this for the rest of her life.
  14. M

    Something got in the coop and ate one silkie chicken and badly injured another one

    This morning around 4 am let my silkies out of their nesting area as you can see it has a small door on one side of the coop for them to free range and have more space most of the time they freely roam our yard but lately we have been seeing lots of hawk and skunks and as well opossums lurking...
  15. FlemingFarms

    Sick with worry! HELP!

    So I've had a chicken that is a different breed from the rest, who was a slow grower and always a bit ostracized by the rest. She seemed to be doing ok and they mostly ignore eachother, occasionally they will bully her away from food but I always make sure to put some food elsewhere for her and...
  16. Anika Wood

    Feathers missing on face?

    My Silkie Hen, Soot, has missing feathers around her comb. I didn’t notice until now because all of my chickens have been eating cherries that get their faces dirty and stick their feathers down sometimes. This is her all cleaned up. Is this just from the other hens picking on her? Or is it some...
  17. Bloo

    Cloaca Scab Injury Bloody Swollen Vent

    One of my silkies has a scab on her butt. It seams to lead inside her cloaca so when she dose an egg it bleeds a tiny bit. She seams fine in her self otherwise and is still laying and has been for 9 months. Ive considered using a poultry wound spray but as the injury is in a sensitive area im...
  18. Meetkatt

    Help! Chicken can’t get up/walk 😞

    Last night I discovered my Easter Egg hen (approximately 6 months old) on the floor of the coop lying on her side. My rooster was standing beside her. When I came into the coop she didn’t get up - just moved her head to look at me - I thought this was odd so I went over to check on her and she...
  19. thirteen wings farms

    Help! Exposed crop due to injury

    i was walking through my back yard and i noticed a clump of feathers on the ground, i went to check on one of my chickens, rachel, and she was missing a huge chunk of skin. they usually stay inside their run but they had escaped. i isolated her and cleaned the wound a bit when i noticed her crop...
  20. Stipenvlerk

    Injured or ill?

    Hi chicken lovers, close to were I live there is a group of ”wild” chickens. All kinds they just live out in the open for years now. when I travel to the farm for fresh diary I always stop to look at them for a moment. Today something was not right. One of the chickens had a bare tummy, bare...
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