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No...not at all. It is just very difficult to diagnose what you describe about lameness without any other symptoms at all. As Terry has mentioned it can sometimes be caused by low Vit. B, but you generally start to see star gazing or wry neck and incoordination before complete lameness. I missed the fact that they had the same breeder in common also . Def. could just be some weird genetic thing going on with the parent stock.I am sorry if my tone came across as bad it was not my intention. This is the 4th chick out of 8 chicks I purchased from a breeder to have these exact same symptoms. The first was around April after I bought a trio. I stupidly thought it was a fluke & purchased 5 day old chicks at the first of May. Of these 5 I lost 2 at around 5-6 wks of age and now this one and she is around 11 weeks old. All had the same symptoms exactly. As I said I have 2 hatches from broody hens & none of them are sick. I am contacting the Ag Extension office tomorrow to see if I can make arrangements for a necropsy and hopefully find out what is going on. I would like to thank everyone for your thoughts, efforts and support. I will update when and if I find out. Unfortunately I am not in a position to spend hundreds of dollars to take her to UT to find out the cause.
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