unsteady walking

Hey everyone, Just today I noticed one of my hens started walking strangely and she’s stumbling a little bit and unsteady. She’s eating and drinking normal, she was a little slow to leave the coop this morning but otherwise she’s acting normal I’ve separated her from the rest of the flock but...

Hi, I am a new chicken Mom. My husband brought home four chicks and it appears two are Roos. One is a big, beautiful white Cochin (sp?) and at probably three months of age he has developed an illness. He was initially very aggressive and bossy, but over the past couple of weeks he became almost...

First time duck mama (plus, my first time with a broody duck!) She has only been on the nest for about a week, and she was not on her nest for most of the day. We thought, she may have gotten attacked, because she wasn't there for some time. We took the eggs and put them under a very broody...

This morning when I went to let the birds out out of the run my RIR just continued to sit in the shavings, like they all do after they eat on these cool mornings. But not this gal. She is out of that run, lickety split. Ruby suffers severely from FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), a new anagram I...

Hi! I got 3 ducklings last week (August 30th) and their gait is worrying me. They'll take a few plodding steps and then plop down again. I've been giving them 1tsp of nutritional yeast with every change of their soupy food (I put their Mazuri starter food in a shallow bowl and add water...