lame chicken

Hello Everyone:) First time trying this so I hope I make sense. Recently my neighbors gave me a baby chick of theirs to try and raise back to health. The chick is 1 month old and has a lame leg. It sticks straight out from its body and can not stand on its own. It also has this strange scab ring...

Hello friends. We had 36 hens all about 7 months old. Breeds are Wyandotte, Ameracauna, Production Red, Black Sex Link, and Isa browns. All but the Reds and Isas are missing round patches of feathers about 3 inches in diameter on their backs just above their tails. (See pic). For a while it...

She got herself lodged into a small space over night. i was able to get her out a couple hours later (after i finally found her) but she has been acting very weird. at first, it seemed like she was blind. she is moving her head around very twitchy and methodically. she eventually will stand...

I have a new pair of 12 week old legbars. One was slightly quiet and slept more when first brought home but I have now noticed that she's having trouble walking, she's very off balance and wobbly. She prefers to sit down on her hocks. I've checked both feet and legs and can't see any obvious...

Hi All. I'm hoping someone can tell me what is going on. I am raising a flock of red rangers for meat birds. So far 2 have gone lame somehow. They were fine--walking around, foraging, etc. Then one day i noticed that one of them was not walking around with the others. She was just sitting in the...

On 5/5, I returned from being out of the country for 10 days as I studied abroad! It was a fun time but I was excited to be back and to be honest, I was getting concerned as I'm the main chicken lady at home and was worried about my flock! They were all sleeping peacefully when I returned home...

Hi chicken people, I have a hen (7-month Easter Egger) who has been somewhat lame for about a week or so, that's problem A which I've been looking into. However another issue with her came up -- tonight, a fairly chilly November night, on the roost i noticed she is not puffing up her feathers...

Hey guys, one of my silkie roosters, around two years, no longer has control of his legs. It started with trouble balancing on the roost, then soon he started to fall off and roost on the ground, laying on his side no less, and now today he sits on his hocks and when he stands he careens in...

About 3 weeks ago, my adult laying hen cut her toe on something. We cleaned it and bandaged it, but the next day or so it looked infected so we started her on antibiotics. This was on her left foot. She was with the other chickens until she was started on antibiotics, but the day we started her...