Chickens having trouble walking

[Brandonb14]

Hello!

Roughly three days ago I noticed one of our chickens was limping, crawling, and falling around.

I quickly removed her from the others in the coop and thoroughly looked her over. I did not see any obvious injuries so I placed her alone in a separate coop. Today she is doing slightly better but still will not fully stand.

This morning I noticed another hen, different breed acting very similar. I removed her also and placed her in the coop with the other chicken. I just went back to check on them and the one from today will not stand. She lets you hold her without a care in the world. I did notice she is sitting with her butt elevated.

I tried to feel around on both to see if they were egg bound and did not feel anything. All of my hens just began laying in the past 3 weeks and neither of these two have laid since I separated them.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Debbie292d]

Hi,

Sorry about what's going on with your hens.

How old are they and what do they eat, such as are they getting layer feed?

It's unlikely they all are egg-bound at the same time, and they could be vitamin-deficient.

Just in case it really is egg-binding going on, I'd give each of them a Calcium +D, human pill, 300 - 600 mg, and can have that again 24 hour later. Better safe than sorry as if it is egg-binding, that can cause death.

 

[CrazyChickenLady123]

Do you let them free range? They could have picked something up off the ground they weren't supposed to. Do you use any weed killer around your coop?