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  1. F

    Chick limping swollen knee

    Chick is motivated to eat and drink but it's limping since this morning and it's knee area is swollen and red! I tried to seperate it from the flock but it starts chirping loud and tries to get out so I don't want it to stress out more. It puts weight on it sometimes very lightly and I don't...
  2. ChxLadyCass

    What is this?? Injured, weak baby chick

    I bought a chick 6 days ago and noticed yesterday it was a little slower than its mates and wobbly. I have it being raised with a Mama hen that was broody, and I HATE to intervene, but this "injury" has me perplexed and I imagine the other chicks will peck at it and make it worse. Anyone seen...
  3. D

    Head trauma HELP!!!

    Chicken has been sick and slow moving I went out today and she looks like the other chickens pecked her head really good not sure if her eyes are ok. Pictures are graphic if someone could tell me what I can do for her. I moved her I side and I am going to clean her up with baby soap and water...
  4. S

    Injured blind chick

    I wasn't sure where to post this, but I thought I'd ask here. A chick of ours recently gotten attacked by some other chickens, and unfortunately they damaged her badly. It seems she's missing both eyes, if she were to make it. How would one exactly care for a blind chick?
  5. C

    10 day old Jersey Giant chick injured by other chicks. It's not an emergency - need advice on next steps

    My Jersey Giant Chicks are 10 days old (The flock is 15 straight run chicks from a hatchery). This afternoon, I heard screeching from the brooder. Dashing to the brooder I find several chicks pecking at one chick's vent. I scoop up the chick and find it is bleeding from the outside of the vent...
  6. Astrohens

    Chick with very injured leg, please help!!

    Fiver is a 2 month old chick with an unknown leg injury. At first, it started off with a minor limp but it quickly got worse. I put him in a bird cage for 3 days and while I was changing the paper at the bottom I noticed his limp has gotten a lot worse, even with his time in the cage. Fiver’s...
  7. O

    Chick pecked to skull

    My (a little over) one month old chick got pecked to the skull by our older hen. We lost 3/4 of our chickens to raccoons and we got some chicks for our last remaining hen. At first when we introduced them when they were old enough, she pecked them a bit, but over time she’s been bullying one...
  8. Q

    Quail chick hip dysplasia?

    Hey I need advice asap. I have a chick who I think is about 7 maybe 8 days old. Hatched with no issues or health concerns. Long story short I discovered it had curled toes so I taped them and went to bed and in the morning I found him laying on his stomach with his leg stretched out backwards. I...
  9. G

    Leg hurts on hen

    The leg has no visible injury, yet the hen won't put anyway on it and hops. Does anyone know what else could be the issue? Thank you
  10. C

    Chicken injured on its eye

    My chicken got attack by a Hawk two days ago, The Hawk was grabbing on to its head, and we were able to rescue our chicken, but she is having trouble with one of her eye! I’m not sure what to do about her eye, and i’m also not sure she is blind in that eye now.. If anybody has some tips please...
  11. Nona_1808

    Please help :( my pet chick has been limping

    This is my pet chick Soufflé, a salmon faverolle… I’ve been taking of all my chicks equally, never dropped them and always made sure they ate and drank enough. She does have 3 sisters from different mothers but she was never bullied or messed with… all google will tell me she could have a foot...
  12. L

    Chick with a gas-filled crop! I need advice!!

    This chick had to manually be hatched. It is 6 days old. Today I noticed that it was stumbling around and it's crop was filled with gas. It hasn't eaten all day but it is drinking. Any advice??
  13. T

    Chicken Recovery day 6– NEED HELP!! [IMG INCLUDED]

    I’ve always ghosted this forum because of the helpful advice people get often helps me A LOT. However, I am in the serious need of guidance and advice myself now more than ever before. Last Sunday one of our young chicks got severely injured on the back of her head, she fought very hard and she...
  14. Pandang81

    8 week old pullet limping for past 5 days

    Ok so I brought home a new 8 week old pullet 10 days ago. She’s a funky looking little cross between a Silkie & blue copper maran according to the lady who hatched her. We couldn’t resist when my kids & I saw how funny looking & cute she was so she came home with us… So 5 days ago she began...
  15. Tea_Birbs

    Please help, 2week old quail chick isn’t walking anymore

    So we recently hatched some tuxedo quail chicks from an incubator about a week ago and they were all doing fine. But this morning we noticed one laying down and not walking as much as the others and now he is barely walking, he was fine yesterday! He is using his wings to support himself when...
  16. J

    Help! Leg malformation on newly hatched chick 🐣

    Does anyone know what’s the matter with this sweet little one? 😢 He is a fighter with so much strength but he cannot use his legs properly and flails them around unable to walk. Initially I thought it was spraddle leg but now I’m thinking it could be something else. Any tips/suggestions please...
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  17. H

    hurt baby chick

    I have a baby chick who cut open her foot 4 days ago. we’ve applied an anti inflammatory and anti bacteria chicken spray on it the last 4 days and have had it wrapped. i took off the bandage today to let the cut air out. i’m not sure if i should take her to the local vet or not.
  18. C

    Week old chick suddenly limping in one leg?

    Hey folks, we recently ordered 51 chicks from meyers and lost about 12 out of 15 of the same breed within the first 2 days, the others were healthy and fine - only about 3 others died suddenly overnight. There was no heating pad during the delivery process for some reason, but we moved them...
  19. J

    Neck injury after dog bite - help!

    Hey! My 4week old barred rock got scooped up by my dog. I got him to drop her but she just lay there. I held her for a good 30 mns she Was obviously heavily breathing and it appeared at the beginning to have a couple of drops of blood coming out of her left ear. After about an hour she chirped a...
  20. Z

    Injured chick

    OK new chicken owner here and I could use some help. My five pullets are four months old they've gotten along great up until today. This morning I noticed that one of them had some damage to her comb. I'm not sure if it was done by one of the others overnight but the blood was dried so I cleaned...
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