I have Snowflake quail chicks that are just hatching. One has already died and we brushed it off as it getting too cold because the power went out and he got disoriented, kept flipping over and died while I was trying to figure out a brace kind of thing that helps reorentate wobbly chicks.
Now...
About 10 days ago, out of the blue, my 1.5 year old Swedish blue hen started limping & didn't want to put much weight on her right leg. I did a quick bumblefoot inspection & didn't see anything alarming. I've never dealt with bumblefoot before, but after lurking here for a few years, I do think...
I check my chicks today and one of them stretch their head forward for food and I see exposed skin and veins underneath Their is fluff and feathers over it but moves away from skin exposed area when stretched or spread out though they dont seem bothered by it at all. They are 2 weeks and 5 days old.
I’ve been trying to figure this one out for 3 weeks! I think I’ve made it worse by the different splints I’ve tried. 😔
Here’s the FAQ’s:
1. She is marek vaccinated.
2. She gets nutridrench in her water. Trying to give it via dropper was a struggle and a mess. 🙁 She eats and drinks normally.
3...
okay so first some background, we have 20 chickens or so 2 roosters (they do not compete with each other overly, one is much older) they live in a coop we lock every night and have a large area to go during the day. The chickens are many breeds however we have had 3 meat breed hens who are about...
Hi, so I know this is a website about/for chickens, but I thought that similar principles applied to chicks apply when it comes to physical defects in keets.
Just got 10 Pearl Guinea keets today and noticed that one of them has a messed up leg, which juts out sideways as opposed to straight up...