FloorCandy
Crowing
- Apr 15, 2020
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My little Cocoa, the chick I’ve been documenting a bit here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-chicks-are-gone-here-are-my-keepers.1417646/
Was suddenly limping this morning. When I checked, he/she had a small ball of poo on the tip of a toe, but no other indication anything was wrong, I touched the leg everywhere and it seemed fine, no pain. I went to get the poop off and it was like cement. I finally got it off and this is what I found:
It was strangling the tip of the toe. Yesterday it was walking fine and acting normal. The toe is still pink many hours later so I’m hoping the tip won’t die, I’m not keen on having to remove it
This actually happened before, no injury tho. When I first bought the homestead harvest food, they knocked over the feeder because they hated it and were looking for the old food. Then they sand bathed in the food, and many had cement feet. I thought it was the food hardening, but I’m thinking the black tar poop it gave them caused it, because a few days ago I gave the inside chicks the dregs of homestead harvest I had at the bottom of a container, mixed into the regular pellets, I even joked to someone about how they ate the pellets and left the yellow powder at the bottom of the feeder. I should have just thrown it out, but I thought, hey waste not want not. Bleh
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-chicks-are-gone-here-are-my-keepers.1417646/
Was suddenly limping this morning. When I checked, he/she had a small ball of poo on the tip of a toe, but no other indication anything was wrong, I touched the leg everywhere and it seemed fine, no pain. I went to get the poop off and it was like cement. I finally got it off and this is what I found:
It was strangling the tip of the toe. Yesterday it was walking fine and acting normal. The toe is still pink many hours later so I’m hoping the tip won’t die, I’m not keen on having to remove it
This actually happened before, no injury tho. When I first bought the homestead harvest food, they knocked over the feeder because they hated it and were looking for the old food. Then they sand bathed in the food, and many had cement feet. I thought it was the food hardening, but I’m thinking the black tar poop it gave them caused it, because a few days ago I gave the inside chicks the dregs of homestead harvest I had at the bottom of a container, mixed into the regular pellets, I even joked to someone about how they ate the pellets and left the yellow powder at the bottom of the feeder. I should have just thrown it out, but I thought, hey waste not want not. Bleh
