Right I am going to be 100% honest and not beat around the bush.
Today I put my 3 chicks on nesting straw and the problem with the nesting straw is it gets in to the water. So I tried to make the water higher then the floor brooder so that the straw couldn't get in by putting a turned over...
Hello everyone who is a poultry enthusiast! I am a second year veterinary graduate student at UC Davis and I have been raising backyard chickens for four years. If you have concerns about treating a chick with a suspected slipped tendon(s), you may find that my experience can help you.
I had...
My 2 week old baby silkie is not bearing weight on it’s right foot. Not sure what happened, unaware of an injury. His feet look fine, I can’t feel any breaks or anything. He doesn’t show pain on palpating. His right knee joint is quite a bit larger than the other but the flesh itself doesn’t...
We came out to find one of our hens limping yesterday morning. I flipped her on her back to try and see if I could find any noticeable problems. There is no swelling no discernible difference between the other leg and nothing on the bottom of her foot. The ankle does seem to have an inward...
I have a chicken (her name is Captain Eileen) and she is about...three months old now, give or take. She is one of 10 in our backyard flock. Right around the time we were going to move them all from the bathroom to the backyard, we noticed one of her legs was starting to..stray a little. We took...
I have a chick that just hatched. I cannot get her tendon to line up in place where the other one is. She appears unable to extend the leg, when I first started to extend her leg, it took a lot of work, slowly pushing it open a little more each time. I finally was able to get the leg fully...
One of our turkey poults slipped a tendon about a week ago. Being that we thought it was an ailment other than a slipped tendon, we unfortunately treated for the wrong problem and only now discovered it's actually a slipped tendon. I've read multiple articles and threads, but despite trying all...