Chick with severe leg issues

[jolenesdad]

If I KNEW what was going on, I would also say the same thing, @aart.

Im going to make a video later.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Awww, how’s your tough little baby doing, CluckNDoodle??? And whatever happened with the broody hen?

She's hanging in there! She's pretty mobile now and has worked out her own method of getting around. Hopping and flying back and forth across the brooder now that she has some decent flight feathers. She also leans against the walls in the brooder when resting.
My broody hen stopped sitting a few days later. I guess she felt she hatched that chick and that there weren't any more hatching so she gave up.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

She's hanging in there! She's pretty mobile now and has worked out her own method of getting around. Hopping and flying back and forth across the brooder now that she has some decent flight feathers. She also leans against the walls in the brooder when resting.
My broody hen stopped sitting a few days later. I guess she felt she hatched that chick and that there weren't any more hatching so she gave up.

Good for your special needs baby for figuring out how to get on with life! Did you end up keeping the hen? Or did you eat her? (I know that you wouldn’t eat her, no matter what she did!)

 

[aart]

If I KNEW what was going on, I would also say the same thing, @aart.

Im going to make a video later.

First part went over my head.
Good on the video.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Good for your special needs baby for figuring out how to get on with life! Did you end up keeping the hen? Or did you eat her? (I know that you wouldn’t eat her, no matter what she did!)

LOL!! She's a Leghorn so too darn skinny to eat anyway...sooo I guess I'll just see what happens. I'm such a pushover when it comes to these chickens!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

LOL!! She's a Leghorn so too darn skinny to eat anyway...sooo I guess I'll just see what happens. I'm such a pushover when it comes to these chickens! View attachment 1919505

Ha! You’re no pushover - you’re the one who actually has a sweet natured flock due to culling! Culling of one kind or another anyway... Ever since I heard that, I walk around our coop at roosting time and mutter about how the next hen to attack a youngling gets the cull!

 

[jolenesdad]

First part went over my head.
Good on the video.

I should have said "If I knew what to even be looking for..."

I agree they're too shaky.

 

[aart]

I should have said "If I knew what to even be looking for..."

I agree they're too shaky.

Oh... what to 'film'.
Can be hard to catch the concerning behavior on video.

 

[jolenesdad]

I just made a video she is already better than earlier today. It’ll take me a bit to upload it. is it possible that vitamin b fixes this?

I feel very bad that my after-ship recovery and supplementation was lacking.

 

[jolenesdad]