Chickens having trouble walking

Brandonb14

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Aug 10, 2025
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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.
 

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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.
 
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.
Good morning,

They are both roughly 22 weeks. They are currently eating Purina Flock Raiser.
 
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?
Good morning,

We do not allow them to free range due to the predators where we live. I don’t believe any weed killer how been sprayed close to there coop.
 
Just checked on them and the black one who just started to show symptoms yesterday had passed away overnight.

The rest of the flock seems ok so far.
 

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