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  1. P

    Dislocated leg or tendon injury ?

    Hi folks, this stag was about to be thrown out by his owner but I got him to try to save him and give him a chance to live normally. I attached a video file to this post showing him. He's just using one leg to walk, his fingers are curled and doesnt move
  2. WolfLady

    Young chick walking "on high heel"

    Hi! I have a 36 hours old silver ameraucana chick that limp since his birth. I noticed that despite being able to stand static normally, when he walks, his left wrist is positioned as if he was walking on high heel. He walks, runs, feed, scratch normally. What could it be? Is there anything I...
  3. I

    My baby chick can’t walk

    Hi there, I have a chick that hatched this morning and it can’t walk properly. It appears as though it has a broken left leg or some implication regarding it’s left leg. It’s leg sits out sideways and it appears as though it can’t put any weight on the leg. The chick can limp around but it’s...
  4. DuckDuckJuice

    Advice Regarding Duck with Old Injury/Deformity

    Hi, I’m hoping someone can offer some helpful insights regarding our duck, aptly named Ducky. Ducky is a five month old male Pekin with a bum leg. We aren’t sure if his leg was injured at some point or if it’s a deformity, but he has walked with a considerable limp since we got him at...
  5. E

    Hen can't walk or move leg

    I have a seven month old gold top hen who I noticed 3 days ago was lame. However she was able to walk with her limp slowly and jump up to the roost but I decided to remove her from my flock as she is relatively new and is at the bottom of the pecking order and I was concerned the older girls...
  6. Shmegel

    Help figuring out quail diagnosis

    My 2.5 year old female coturnix quail has started lying on her side all the time. She can’t seem to put weight on her right leg. She’s able to move both legs, but she can’t walk. Vet says it’s probably either a nerve issue, abdominal mass on left side, stroke, sprain or soft tissue injury, but I...
  7. M

    Large cyst on leg near body

    My 25 week-old Andalusian hen has developed a large cyst on her leg. She was limping but now not walking at all. She slept on the floor of the coop. Any suggestions?
  8. C

    Limping duck

    We adopted two ducklings last spring that turned out to be drakes. We lost one a few weeks ago, and we adopted four young females that I believe were hatched this spring. We noticed yesterday that one of the new females (second from the right in the photo) appears to be sick or injured: she's...
  9. Gerby26

    Goose with clicking sound when she walks

    I noticed my goose's foot is making a clicking noise every time she takes a step, should I be concerned she is 4-5 months old and she walks fine other then the noise with every step.
  10. 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...
  11. Nikkijo

    Chick was attacked now limping / dragging foot. Help

    Ine if my Silkie chicks about a month old was attacked by some thing yesterday I found her sitting down shaking with blood all over her back and scabbed up a little bit no feathers. So I brought her in and cleaned her up and she just fell asleep . I brought her outside today and noticed she...
  12. Nellixc

    Help! My chicken can’t walk, what to do?!

    I have 8 chickens, all 5 1/2 months old. None have laid and egg yet. Last week my chicken stopped walking - we tried giving her epsom salt baths and she seemed a lil more peppy after each one, but now she lays with her one leg straight out and can’t sit up. Her leg doesn’t appear to be broken...
  13. divineangel94

    Swollen leg.

    My rooster is about 3 years old. His name is monster and for the past 6 months, his been hopping and limping so I took him to the vet. He does have severe arthritis and now its swollen. He is eating fine and drinking. His poop is normal. Last night the pain got worse and now he keeps hopping on...
  14. I

    Chicken hurt foot

    About 2 weeks ago my 5 month old chicken hurt her leg, I don’t know how but I found her limping around. Since then I’ve isolated her from the other, been giving her aspirin, and spraying her leg with anti septic spray. However she does not seem to be getting better she stopped laying her eggs...
  15. Bantam Trick Chickens

    Rooster Injured Baby Chick's Leg, Now it's Limping

    My dad was letting three standard chicks and our two oegbs at the same time. One of the chicks ran towards our bantam rooster, who spurred the poor chick half an hour ago. This situation should never have occurred but it has been limping and doesn't use it's right leg. What could this be and how...
  16. A

    Injured? Sick? I’m so afraid of losing her :(

    My favorite hen came out of the coop limping yesterday and by the time I got back with a dog crate to bring her inside for a rest period she was laying in the corner of the coop and not really wanting to move much. Anyways I brought her inside and she ate tons of food and water and has been...
  17. M

    Splash Cochin Bantam leg/foot injury HELP PLEASE

    Hello! I'm a new chicken owner. I currently have 16 chickens of various breeds. Yesterday I noticed my Splash Cochin Bantam 9 weeks old, (I think that is the breed I know it's a bantam) was lame and not running in the yard with the flock. I picked her up to give her a look over and found that...
  18. zed07

    HELP! MY CHICKEN CAN’T STAND!

    Hey! I am new with chickens, so do you know what’s going on? I came to let our chickens out for the day, one of them wouldn’t come out of their nesting area. She couldnt stand, how hard she tried. Her comb was floppy but still a healthy colour. We separated her from the group and made her as...
  19. G

    Pearl Guinea keet with malformed leg/foot

    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...
  20. Jynuine

    Purchased and Hatched Bresse: Boy What a pain! And Leg Issue Q:

    Hi! So, I am invested in raising Bresse as my dual-purpose breed. I am aware of some of the issues that can arise with Bresse including genetic differences due to inbreeding and lack of fresh genetic material. I spent a good $200 on 6 Bresse from Greenfire farms ($29 a chick with 6 chick min and...
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