Decided to finally post... Not sure (first time owner)

[micstrachan]

You are receiving good advice from @Wyorp Rock. The only thing I might add is, can you look at their vents? I noticed a tucked tail and just wanna be sure that there’s nothing going on back there. Cute chicks!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

It's hard to tell...in one of the photos the hock looks like it may be turning inward a bit.
Could also the the angle of the photo - thank you for the photos! I know chicks can be hard to photograph!


See if the vitamins and change in feed makes a difference.

Keep us posted.

 

[lukkyseven]

So it's been about 1 week. One of my two chickens that was having problems seems to show some marginal improvements. The other one still seems to be sitting on the floor fluffed out under the heat lamp when I go in.

They are coming in every day for crushed b-vitamin complex. During the day they have access to water with Save-A-Chick in it.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Do you have any updated photos of them?
What's the poop like?

Any changes in the leg joints?

 

[lukkyseven]

Had a ton of work to do when I got home so I didn't have time to take pictures of them. I'll go back out tomorrow. Poop is a tad runny, but still sits in a solid mass. No worms, but not sure what I should be looking for.

The larger of the two chickens seems to be making an improvement, but it's tough to decide.

When I bring them in and set them in a box to feed and force vitamin B into them, they just sit there. They don't make an effort to get up and move around the box. As a test I brought another chicken in to see what they would do and they tried to get out of the box right away.

However, when I go outside, the one chicken that I think is doing better does seem to be up and walking around. Within the next day or so, their run will be fully enclosed and I can put them outside (supposed to get snow though) to see how they do.

 

[Cyprus]

I wouldn't feed Dumor. Period.

In all but 1 case (in my experience) all it's done is kill chicks and make adults sick.


It's cheap for a reason; made of bottom-of-the-barrel ingredients that hardly maintain a bird.

 

[lukkyseven]

Here are some up to date pictures of the feet.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Poop picture of the fluffed out one?
Quite a wide stance there.

 

[lukkyseven]

They did not poop while in the house. I can try when I get home again to bring them back inside. What are we looking for in the poop (so I can learn something )

 

[lukkyseven]

And by fluffed out one, do you mean the one sitting or standing in the picture